The evil autumn of 1957 gave President Eisenhower and the entire Republican administration the hardest lesson ....

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 ...

For me, the topic seemed interesting, related to my former specialty and study at the university, all the more so my youngest offspring “dragged” her: “Chef, let's knead what a thread is and launch, ...

It is well known that the Soviet Union was the first to launch into space a satellite, a living creature and man. During the space race, the USSR as far as possible sought to overtake and overtake America. There were ...

Water is the basis of life. On our planet for sure. At some "Gamma Centauri", perhaps everything is different. With the advent of space exploration, the importance of water for humans has only increased. From H2O to ...

The US Air Force issued an MNS application * in 2001 (hereafter the terms and abbreviations are marked with an asterisk, the definition of which is given at the end of the article) outlining the requirements for "Operationally Adaptive ...

Currently, NPO Molniya on the subject of research and development work Molot is developing a multi-mode hypersonic unmanned aerial vehicle. This UAV is considered as a prototype demonstrator of technology ...

11 January 1957, the Soviet government decided to build an Angara facility among forests and northern marshes near the Plesetskaya station of the Arkhangelsk Region. He thought how ...

Lunokhod-1 was the first successful rover, designed to explore other worlds. He was brought to the surface of the moon 17 on November 1970 of the year aboard the Luna-17 landing module. Manage it ...

This project turned out to be devoted to the research of two space objects at once - the planet Venus and the comet Halley ....

The first circumnavigation took place in the 1520-ies of the squadron commanded by Fernand Magellan. The heroic campaign almost ended in disaster. Of the five ships, only one was able to go around the earth, and ...

Thirty years ago, a new MX intercontinental ballistic missile (LGM-118 “Pikiper”) was put on combat duty in the United States. The grouping of these missiles, according to the American ...

In early September 2016, the founder of the Internet company Amazon Jeff Bezos made an announcement about the start of work on a heavy-class space rocket. The rocket was named New Glenn. Her...

In recent years, the development of private companies operating in the aerospace industry has attracted the special interest of specialists and the general public. A number of foreign organizations of this kind have already ...

Speech about what is not customary to talk openly, but what plays a crucial role in long-term manned space flights is about human life support. It is clear that at first on ...

Due to the limited funding of space programs, alternative ways out of the situation have to be found. Two simple options come to mind if not a complete solution to the money question, then ...

In the future, the Russian group of reconnaissance spacecraft will be replenished with new type systems. A few days ago it became known about the development of a new intelligence project ...

The United States repeated the success of the Soviet "satellite fighter" only 18 years later. Everyone knows that the Soviet artificial Earth satellite was the first. But not everyone knows that we were the first and ...

While the camera of the Russian-European spacecraft ExoMars sent the first image of the Red Planet back to Earth, the United States is working to send a full-fledged manned ...

Spacecraft groupings have long become an essential element of the armed forces of different countries. In addition, concerns about the possible expansion of hostilities began to be voiced long ago ...