Mission to Mars will provide US space leadership
While the camera of the Russian-European spacecraft ExoMars sent the first image of the Red Planet to Earth, the United States is working on sending a full-fledged manned expedition to Mars ....
The Washington Post: the battle for "the most valuable real estate in space"
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 ...
The first in the world: ten facts of the primacy of Baikonur
28 April 1955, large-scale construction work began on the territory of the future cosmodrome. In the history of the space age there are several certainly unique events that have become landmarks, marking ...
The cosmic triumph of 1961. What would prevent Yuri Gagarin from smiling widely today?
12 April Russia celebrates one of those holidays, which is a reminder of the outstanding technological advances of mankind. This, of course, about the holiday, which is called the World Day ...
Great hike companions
China and Russia have common interests outside the land. The Chinese space program in scale, scope and pursued goals continues similar "imperial" projects of the Soviet Union and the United States ....
Sanctions Satellites
Domestic manufacturers are learning to make spacecraft on their own. The Russian space industry is in crisis due to technological sanctions imposed by the US and the EU. In fact, we ...
Countdown
Russia can only dream of the overwhelming technological superiority of the USSR in space. 17 March, the government of the Russian Federation approved the Federal Space Program (FKP) on 2016 – 2025 ...
Since the launch of the first artificial satellite of the moon, 50 years have passed
March 31 Day 1966 of the year forever went down in history as another memorable date for the Russian cosmonautics. On this day, exactly 50 years ago, the successful launch of the first ever artificial ...
Rocketman
90 years ago, 16 March 1926, the American inventor Robert Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fuel rocket. And although it was just a small and clumsy experimental model, ...
Nuclear weapons do not guarantee the salvation of the Earth from asteroids
The fall of an asteroid on Earth is one of the basic scenarios of the Apocalypse used in science fiction. To prevent fantasies from coming true, mankind has prepared to protect itself against such a thing in advance ...
The Washington Post: America’s most intriguing spacecraft has incredible Cold War roots
In mid-January, the NASA aerospace agency decided to sign several large contracts with private companies in the space industry. Among other contracts, the company received a contract ...
And how up there? Report from MCC
When invited to look into space from there, where everything happens, only a person who is very lazy will refuse. Therefore, we accepted with great interest the invitation of the press service of the Control Center ...
Full Flight
Press conferences in Luxembourg were eagerly awaited both by people professionally involved in politics, economics and finance, and ... fans of science fiction and space. But even more ...
Barge haulers in orbit
Can Russia catch up with the USSR in the development of reusable space systems? Today, in order to live well and safely, it is necessary to have dominance in the third dimension, or at least not to yield ...
Russia and the United States on the ISS: the paths diverge
From the very beginning of the Crimean events, unofficial sanctions against Russia also touched the space industry. For example, the already paid American, and later European, components for ...
On the ISS will appear "Andronaut"
Russian scientists finish with the work to create the first domestic assistant robot to work on the International Space Station. The anthropomorphic robotic system "Andronaut" was ...
Well, on Mars or where far away?
From the category of good news. The Voronezh Association of KBKhA (Chemical Automation Design Bureau) conducted successful fire tests of an ionic electric propulsion engine, developed jointly with ...
Project Falcon 9. Successful landing of the first stage and market prospects
December 22 event occurred, which can go down in the history of world space exploration. The US company SpaceX conducted another successful launch of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle with a payload in the form ...
The last flight of the Buran
When the Soviet reusable Buran spacecraft touched the runway near the Baikonur cosmodrome, there was no limit to the jubilation of the MCC staff. No joke to say: for the flight ...
Trash puzzle
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 ...