Cleaning the near space is much more difficult than it seems at first glance. The problem of pollution of outer space worries the entire aerospace community. Such a hypothetical development of events on ...

As in Krasnoyarsk, created the world's first installation for autonomous survival in space. In the film Martian, the hero had to wait for the next expedition to arrive on the Red Planet with a small ...

Russian non-state companies can create everything - from sensor to rocket. The Russian private space has not gone so far in its development as the American, but nevertheless actively ...

The fuel from the kitchen hob is very effective for rocket engines. The rocket and space world at a crossroads: global trends require lower cost and increased environmental safety ...

Reading some documents about the creation of a new image of the army, the principles of unification and dismemberment of parts and formations, including scientific institutions, you involuntarily feel a cool attitude ...

As part of the 12 International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2015, the Russian Space Agency demonstrated the corps of the command compartment of a manned transport ship ...

The discovery of water on Mars and the Moon by European and American probes is primarily the merit of Russian scientists. Regular reports of new and new discoveries made by European and ...

The state needs not one super powerful launch vehicle, but a fleet of explosives. As is known, the main document defining the interests of the state, the main goals, priorities and tasks of Russia in the field of research, ...

The draft of the Federal Space Program for 2016-2025 for years turned out to be in government departments and some of its provisions became known to the press. Perhaps the most important thing in the FKP, turning on itself ...

Small spacecrafts are capable of more Despite the rivalry between the leading space powers in the creation of carrier rockets of large payload, the rapid development in the near future ...

Thirty years before the first launch of the Space Ship Two rocket flight in the early eighties in the Soviet Union, they came to the need for space-free space launches. No wonder. Military ...

In Karachay-Cherkessia, in the vicinity of Mount Chapal, at an altitude of about 2200 meters above sea level, there is a unique military facility - the radio-optical complex for recognition of space objects ...

The program for the development of near-Earth space must be re-prepared. The most promising way of developing the near space, no doubt, is aerospace systems that have ...

16 May another scheduled launch of a Proton-M launch vehicle with a spacecraft on board failed. Because of some, not yet installed, problems with the work of some units useful ...

The Dream Chaser spacecraft (eng. “The Runner for a Dream”), a well-known aerospace company SNC (Sierra Nevada Corporation), previously dropped out of the fight for the right to deliver in the future ...

I think many space enthusiasts who are actively interested in history and the current state of affairs in the field of space exploration and exploration have already learned the rocket imprinted on ...

In Roskosmos said that the creation of a super-heavy rocket that has a payload of 70-80 tons will require about 700 billion rubles. According to the ministry, currently need ...

Currently, Russia is once again returning to the idea of ​​building a manned station on the moon. This project was relevant in 1960-e years. Already in 1962, Soviet designers and cosmonauts began ...

12 January 2007, the PRC, managed to scare the whole world with the tests of a new ballistic missile that was able to hit a satellite in Earth orbit. The Chinese rocket destroyed the satellite ...

24 January 1978, the satellite "Cosmos-954", owned by the USSR and having a nuclear power plant on board, collapsed in the Earth's atmosphere. Its fragments fell over the northern part of Canada ....

Where, behind the stern, the solar wind subsides and eternity rises next to us ... What awaits those who were able to break through the heliopause and touch the light of distant stars? Ghostly Shine Belt Particles ...

Russia is not the only country in the world that is banking on the lunar program. China also has serious plans for a natural satellite of the Earth. Recently, the Chinese experimental spacecraft ...

The natural satellite of the Earth is still an interesting option for a variety of space programs. The moon is important to humanity as the closest object to Earth and as the first step to ...

From the very beginning of space exploration and the advent of space technology, the military began to think about how to use space with the greatest benefit. Not once appeared ...

The statement of Dmitry Rogozin at the very beginning of December on the planned withdrawal from the ISS project almost coincided with the statement of the Russian President on the termination of the South Stream project, therefore less ...

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin chaired a meeting recently devoted to the issues of Russian manned cosmonautics. Against the background of talk that before the implementation of the program ...

In Russia, the complex tests of the Angara-A5 heavy launch vehicle launch complex have been completed. The rocket has already been removed from the launch pad at the Plesetsk cosmodrome. About this 26 ...

The appearance of the so-called. micro and nanosatellites allowed many organizations to begin implementing their own space programs. However, the cost of launching such devices still remains ...

The US military is watching the new space object, which in the Western media has already been called the new Russian "satellite killer." In particular, it informs the Russian news agency ...

On November 17, on Monday, the media spread the information that Russia could acquire its own orbital station in the near future. Relevant material was submitted ...

A series of successful space launches carried out by commercial companies were interrupted by two catastrophes that occurred in late October. We tried to figure out what constitutes a private ...

November 1 leadership GKNPTs them. Khrunichev reported that the new Angara A5 heavy launch vehicle - the world's first rocket, made according to the modular principle (formed as a designer), has passed ...

Americans for spaceflight have something besides a trampoline. And where is our new generation of ship? Five years ago, at the International Air Show in Zhukovsky, visitors saw a mock Russian ...

In mid-October, NASA officially confirmed the fact that the two former hangar for space shuttles, located on the territory of the Kennedy Space Center, will be used in the framework of the secret military ...

Domestic astronauts should be trained not to work on the ISS, but for expeditions to the Moon and Mars. So says the deputy head of the Cosmonautics Training Center (CPC) for scientific work, Boris ...

In the near future, the creation of the Unified Space System (CEN), designed to track the launch of ballistic missiles and protect Russia from a nuclear missile strike, will begin. Part of the existing ...

The surface area of ​​the Red Planet is approximately 145 million square kilometers. Therefore, it is not difficult to imagine how difficult it is for scientists to determine where to plant the next one ...

July 9 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome passed the first test launch of the new Russian launch vehicle Angara-1.2PP. Start performed the calculation of the aerospace defense forces. The rocket successfully executed ...

At the present time it has become very relevant topic of satellite images. This topic attracts the attention of ordinary people. A surge of interest followed after a terrible catastrophe that occurred in the sky over the Donbas ...

India was among the space superpowers. Indian scientists managed to solve a very difficult task - they brought their own satellite to the Martian orbit. As a result, India became the first country in ...

The global navigation satellite system (GLONASS) began to be developed back in the USSR on the order of the country's defense ministry. The satellites of this system are put into orbit from October 12 1982 of the year ....

Several foreign private companies are currently working on projects for launch vehicles and spacecraft. It is expected that "private owners" due to similar projects in the future will be able ...

In early August, the management of the State Space Research and Production Center (GKNPT) them. Mv Khrunichev. The purpose of the appointment of new leaders was the restoration of the ...

We said above that Angara aims to at least “squeeze out” three classes of launch vehicles. This is already impressive. Moreover, the conquest of at least some niche in the orbital space is already “golden ...”

On July 9, 2014, a significant event took place, which will be a landmark not only for the Fatherland, but also for the entire global space. From the Plesetsk cosmodrome for the first time in the world ...

In the previous chapter, we very thoroughly and with illustrative examples dismantled the basic postulates of the great Russian design school, which are excellent in space design. But...

Now, dear reader, we are forced to temporarily move away from the main theme of our narrative. We will not advance a bit in the understanding of rocket technology until we reflect on a number of issues. Can...

In Russia, they returned to the idea of ​​creating a rocket carrier of a super heavy class, with the help of which our country will be able to fly to the Moon and Mars. However, currently still missing ...

Now it becomes clear why for many years an absolute monopoly on the delivery of astronauts to the ISS was given to the Soyuz spacecraft - the legendary royal seven. It is difficult to find epithets ...

I must say that the Zenith launch vehicle was more fortunate in this regard. Yes, the space program "Energy-Buran" was closed, but we have "Zenith", which was the side unit of the first stage ...

Today, the economic collapse in Ukraine is spoken a lot and often, and somehow in this gigantic stream of necessary and unnecessary information, the rocket and space industry of this state is lost. It is from ...

The US aerospace agency NASA is going to abandon the use of Russian transport manned spacecraft "Soyuz-TMA" in favor of similar devices of its own production. AT...