The state needs not one super powerful launch vehicle, but a fleet of explosives. As is known, the main document defining the interests of the state, the main goals, priorities and tasks of Russia in the field of research, ...

The draft of the Federal Space Program for 2016-2025 for years turned out to be in government departments and some of its provisions became known to the press. Perhaps the most important thing in the FKP, turning on itself ...

Small spacecrafts are capable of more Despite the rivalry between the leading space powers in the creation of carrier rockets of large payload, the rapid development in the near future ...

Thirty years before the first launch of the Space Ship Two rocket flight in the early eighties in the Soviet Union, they came to the need for space-free space launches. No wonder. Military ...

In Karachay-Cherkessia, in the vicinity of Mount Chapal, at an altitude of about 2200 meters above sea level, there is a unique military facility - the radio-optical complex for recognition of space objects ...

The program for the development of near-Earth space must be re-prepared. The most promising way of developing the near space, no doubt, is aerospace systems that have ...

16 May another scheduled launch of a Proton-M launch vehicle with a spacecraft on board failed. Because of some, not yet installed, problems with the work of some units useful ...

The Dream Chaser spacecraft (eng. “The Runner for a Dream”), a well-known aerospace company SNC (Sierra Nevada Corporation), previously dropped out of the fight for the right to deliver in the future ...

I think many space enthusiasts who are actively interested in history and the current state of affairs in the field of space exploration and exploration have already learned the rocket imprinted on ...

In Roskosmos said that the creation of a super-heavy rocket that has a payload of 70-80 tons will require about 700 billion rubles. According to the ministry, currently need ...

Currently, Russia is once again returning to the idea of ​​building a manned station on the moon. This project was relevant in 1960-e years. Already in 1962, Soviet designers and cosmonauts began ...

12 January 2007, the PRC, managed to scare the whole world with the tests of a new ballistic missile that was able to hit a satellite in Earth orbit. The Chinese rocket destroyed the satellite ...

24 January 1978, the satellite "Cosmos-954", owned by the USSR and having a nuclear power plant on board, collapsed in the Earth's atmosphere. Its fragments fell over the northern part of Canada ....

Where, behind the stern, the solar wind subsides and eternity rises next to us ... What awaits those who were able to break through the heliopause and touch the light of distant stars? Ghostly Shine Belt Particles ...

Russia is not the only country in the world that is banking on the lunar program. China also has serious plans for a natural satellite of the Earth. Recently, the Chinese experimental spacecraft ...

The natural satellite of the Earth is still an interesting option for a variety of space programs. The moon is important to humanity as the closest object to Earth and as the first step to ...

From the very beginning of space exploration and the advent of space technology, the military began to think about how to use space with the greatest benefit. Not once appeared ...

Dmitry Rogozin's announcement at the very beginning of December about the planned withdrawal from the ISS project practically coincided with the announcement of the Russian President about the termination of the South Stream project, so it went where ...

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin chaired a meeting recently devoted to the issues of Russian manned cosmonautics. Against the background of talk that before the implementation of the program ...

In Russia, the complex tests of the Angara-A5 heavy launch vehicle launch complex have been completed. The rocket has already been removed from the launch pad at the Plesetsk cosmodrome. About this 26 ...

The appearance of the so-called. micro and nanosatellites allowed many organizations to begin implementing their own space programs. However, the cost of launching such devices still remains ...

The US military is watching the new space object, which in the Western media has already been called the new Russian "satellite killer." In particular, it informs the Russian news agency ...

On November 17, on Monday, the media spread the information that Russia could acquire its own orbital station in the near future. Relevant material was submitted ...

A series of successful space launches carried out by commercial companies were interrupted by two catastrophes that occurred in late October. We tried to figure out what constitutes a private ...