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 ...
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 ...
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 ....
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Clearing near space is much more difficult than meets the eye. The problem of space pollution is of concern to the entire aerospace community. Such a hypothetical development of events ...
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 ...