For several years now, astronauts have been sent to the ISS only with the help of the Soyuz series ships. However, the situation may change in the future. Left without their own manned ships, ...
The US STS (Space Transportation System, "Space Transportation System") is better known worldwide as the Space Shuttle ("Space Shuttle"). This program ...
After the closure of the Space Transportation System / Space Shuttle program, the US space industry for a long time was left without reusable ships. However, several organizations at once ...
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 20 December 2017 has decided on the future direction of its program called New Frontiers ....
The rapid development of private companies in the space industry leads to unexpected consequences. To assess the current situation and make a forecast for the foreseeable future, the online publication Ars Technica ...
The implementation of space programs is inconceivable without many auxiliary research projects, including those involving the construction of flying laboratories. In the early nineties of NASA ...
As part of the current development program, the Russian military spacecraft grouping is replenished with new products, and also receives new opportunities ...
At the seemingly ordinary event - the 68-th International Astronautical Congress, which took place in Australian Adelaide at the end of September, the first step was taken towards the beginning of the real development of Russia ...
September 8 1944 on London fell the first German long-range ballistic missile V-2 (from the German V-2 - Vergeltungswaffe-2, a weapon of retaliation) ....
I don’t know if anyone noticed or not, but we had another event like “bloody gebni” with mass executions of visitors. From visiting the site was denied to several readers who got up on ...
By the 60 anniversary of the launch of the first Soviet satellite, Russian filmmakers timed the screening of the film "Salute-7". Yesterday he was watched by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Today the picture was shown in ...
60 years ago, the Р-7 launch vehicle launched the first artificial satellite of the Earth into orbit. In the future, the development of missiles continued and led to the emergence of new models of such technology. Russian ...
Exactly 60 years ago, humanity entered a new era. It entered literally a few moments after the first signals, "squeaks", reached by communication channels from near-earth orbit. This is a brainchild ...
At present, very interesting phenomena are observed in the market of commercial launches of spacecraft. One of the relatively young private commercial organizations did not just bring their ...
The People’s Republic of China continues to work on its projects in the rocket and space field. Perhaps the most courageous and ambitious project is the study of the moon. As part of its own lunar ...
The Russian space industry exploits launch vehicles of several classes and types. To solve some of the problems, astronautics need super-heavy class rockets, but at the moment it is similar ...
It is believed that technologies always develop gradually, from simple to complex, from stone knife to steel - and only then to a programmed milling machine. However, fate ...
At the moment, the Russian space industry has several types of launch vehicles that have different characteristics and are capable of solving a wide range of tasks to derive useful ...
The idea of launching a BR or PH from an offshore platform or ship (aircraft carrier) into space is, of course, not “Russian” know-how. The first were most likely the Americans. V2 rocket launch from USS Midway Aircraft ...
For a more complete coverage of the market of low-orbit apparatuses, a study of new rocket launcher schemes was carried out. One of them was a booster rocket, created by the project "Surf". Missile "Surf" ...
Much has been written and debated on TopWar about plasma, hypersound and radio opacity for falling warheads. On the "Plasmostels SSSR", however, there were also hot battles: ...
When discussing the article “The Saga of Rocket Fuels”, a rather painful question was raised about the safety of liquid rocket fuels, as well as their combustion products, and a little about refueling PH ...
You think I want to tell once again about the "killers of cities", these secretive predators of the deep sea, that with their volley they can wipe the surface, comparable to an area larger than 300 of megacities, into dust ...