Underwater launch systems: how to get out of the water into orbit or into space? (Ending)
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" ...
The victory over the plasma - a new method for communicating with the spacecraft
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: ...
Rocket Fuel Saga - The Other Side
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 ...
Underwater launch systems: how to get out of the water into orbit or into space?
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 ...
Rocket Fuel Saga
For me, the topic seemed interesting, related to my former specialty and study at the university, and even more so my youngest offspring "dragged" her: "Let us knead the chef what thread we will run, and if lazy, then ...
10 Soviet space achievements, which are deleted by the West from history
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 ...
Where do water and oxygen come from on the ISS?
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 ...
Project Rascal - air launch commissioned by US Air Force
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 ...
Multimode hypersonic unmanned aerial vehicle "Hammer"
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 ...
Megaton class timber base
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 - the first successful lunar rover
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 ...
History of space exploration. 1984 year - launch of the interplanetary station "Vega-1"
This project turned out to be devoted to the research of two space objects at once - the planet Venus and the comet Halley ....
Why did you stop flying to the moon
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 ...
Air launch remains in the plans of the Pentagon
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 ...
American private company Blue Origin has outlined its plans to create a heavy-duty space rocket
In early September 2016, the founder of the Internet company Amazon, Jeff Bezos, made a statement about the beginning of work on a heavy-class space rocket. The rocket was named New Glenn. Its development ...
The project of the aerospace system "Blizzard"
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 ...
About the prose of life in Apollo missions
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 ...
Stretch the legs by the spacesuit
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 ...
Development of a prospective Hrazdan reconnaissance satellite has begun
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 ...
Fighter satellites "Flight"
The success of the Soviet "fighter of satellites" of the USA was repeated only in 18 years. Everyone knows that the Soviet artificial satellite of the Earth was the first. But not everyone knows that we were the first and ...