Space 2024, December
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The circle swells up with a lens, stretches, rises and in fact becomes like a low dome. It can be seen how from its center, from the outlined "eye", streams of water flow downward. Then the blunt nose of the rocket appears, rapidly rushes upward, pulling out the blue-white-red
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On January 11, 1957, the Soviet government decided to build the Angara facility among the forests and northern swamps near the Plesetskaya station of the Arkhangelsk Region. It was conceived as a missile test range and at the same time a base for the first R-7 ICBMs (SS-6 "Sapwood"). Now it is the most
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Lunokhod 1 was the first successful rover designed to explore other worlds. It was delivered to the lunar surface on November 17, 1970 aboard the Luna 17 lander. It was controlled by remote control operators in the Soviet Union, it covered more than 10 kilometers
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This project turned out to be devoted to the study of two space objects at once - the planet Venus and Halley's comet. 15 and 21 December 1984, the automatic interplanetary stations (AMS) Vega-1 and Vega-2 were launched from the BAIKONUR cosmodrome. They were put on a flight path to Venus
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Grass does not grow at spaceports. No, not because of the fierce engine flame that journalists love to write about. Too much poison is spilled on the ground when refueling carriers and during emergency discharges of fuel, when rockets explode on the launch pad and small, inevitable leaks in worn out
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Thirty years ago, a new MX ICBM (LGM-118 Piskiper) was put on alert in the United States. The grouping of these missiles, according to the plan of the American military-political leadership, was to eliminate the superiority, which by that time
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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. It will be developed by Bezos' company Blue Origin, the size of the new launch vehicle should surpass everything
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Due to limited funding for space programs, alternative solutions have to be found. Two simple options come to mind, if not a complete solution to the monetary issue, then a significant reduction in the severity of the problem. These are kind of two sides of the same coin: the first is the choice
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At present, OAO NPO Molniya is developing a multi-mode hypersonic unmanned aerial vehicle on the subject of research and development work "Hammer". This UAV is considered as a prototype demonstrator of the technologies of a hypersonic unmanned accelerator aircraft with a combined screen turbo-direct-flow power
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In an article dated 02/04/2017 Multimode hypersonic unmanned aerial vehicle "Hammer" there was a link to the Rascal project: Since the topic seems to have interested readers, I propose to consider this project in a separate article. In 2001, the US Air Force issued an MNS application * (hereinafter asterisk
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At the beginning of January 2019, Russia planned to take out of orbit its military satellite Kosmos-2430, which was part of the Oko missile attack warning system (SPRN), the system has been operating since 1982. This was first reported by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). After
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The progress of the entire project gives reason to believe that the Americans fenced the entire history of SLS only on the basis of the principle "so that it was" - at the moment they did not and do not seem to have any real needs to launch such heavy missiles. I had to invent them on the go, for example, in the first manifesto of 2013
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It seems that NASA has decided to make a "Martian" super rocket with the whole world: for this three divisions of the agency were involved at once. These are the George Marshall Space Flight Center, the Lyndon Johnson Space Center and again the John F Kennedy Space Center, which provides the entire story
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In our country, the development of a new project of a reusable spacecraft has started. The main part of the research work has already been carried out, which makes it possible to move to a new stage of design. The finished spacecraft, which is expected to appear in the next decade, will be able to solve
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Active discussion of the accident of the Soyuz-FG carrier rocket, which failed to deliver the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft into orbit, continues. It is already obvious that this accident will seriously affect the Russian space program, and in addition, it will hit international projects. The current situation has become a reason for
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Today, many of us know, or at least have heard of, the private company SpaceX's family of partially reusable launch vehicles. Thanks to the success of the company, as well as the personality of the founder Elon Musk, who himself often becomes the hero of news feeds, the Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX and
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The first circumnavigation took place in the 1520s by a squadron under the command of Fernand Magellan. The heroic campaign almost ended in disaster. Of the five ships, only one was able to circumnavigate the Earth, and of the 260 crew members, only 18 returned, among which there was no longer Magellan
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The Pentagon is exploring the possibility of creating space-based interceptor missiles and new tracking spacecraft to counter the growing threats from the Russian Federation and China in the field of "high-speed missile attacks," said Deputy Defense Minister for Research and Development Michael
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In 1957, the first artificial satellite went into Earth orbit. From various studies and theoretical works, science moved on to practice. The first launch of the spacecraft and all subsequent programs were based on a variety of ideas and solutions, including those proposed by several
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The leading countries of the world have developed groups of spacecraft for various purposes, including those used in the interests of the armies. Naturally, military satellites of one country can pose a threat to other states, and therefore become a cause for concern. American edition
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The SLS concept is not the first attempt by the Americans to resume astronaut flights on their own platform since the Space Shuttle. On January 14, 2004, the Constellation program was announced. It was George W. Bush's idea to lead Americans to the moon a second time
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We are talking about what is not customary to speak openly, but what plays the most important role in long-term manned space flights - about ensuring human life. It is clear that breathing is in the first place. In the USSR, they immediately followed the path of air breathing for astronauts. Of course
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Orbital bombers LRV have become the most secret US military space project, scraps of information about which for more than 60 years excite the minds of intelligence officers around the world
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In Russia, they started talking about creating a super-heavy space rocket. Its layout will be shown at the Army-2018 forum at the end of August. At the same time, the super-heavy Soviet rocket Energia, which was created specifically for the reusable transport space system Energia-Buran, can be taken as a basis
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In 1962, the world was shaken by the Cuban missile crisis, the echoes of which were heard in all corners of the globe. Then humanity was on the verge of a full-scale nuclear war with all the consequences of such a conflict. As a result, the war was averted, but the USA and the USSR did not stop working
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You know, even annoying. I just want to close the page, take a sip of tea (or not tea) and say languidly: "Boring, girls … Well, really, boring …" "The United States plans to abandon the Russian RD-180 engines within the next five years." Well, yes, I heard it already. And more than once, as it were. AND? What's next? Exactly
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Cleaning up 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 in near-earth orbit, such as Kessler syndrome, predicting an out of control formation
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How the world's first installation for autonomous survival in space was created in Krasnoyarsk In the film "The Martian" the hero had to wait for the next expedition to arrive on the Red Planet with a small supply of water, food and air. American cinema tried to figure out how to do this, and Soviet
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Moon exploration programs, which were simultaneously phased out in the Soviet Union and the United States in the mid-1970s, are again becoming popular and in demand. The moon race, which seemed to be a long time ago, is gaining momentum again. Today scientists from many countries of the world are convinced that
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S7 Space (legal name S7 Space Transport Systems LLC) is the first private commercial company in Russia, the main activity of which is launching rockets and putting various space objects into Earth's orbit. She is the operator of the Sea Launch projects and
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Russian non-state companies can create everything - from a sensor to a rocket Russian private space has not yet gone as far in its development as the American one, but nevertheless it is actively developing. Domestic entrepreneurs successfully manufacture individual subsystems and in just five years
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As part of the 12th International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2015, the Russian Space Agency demonstrated the hull of the command compartment of a new generation manned transport vehicle. This spacecraft is currently still under development. In perspective
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Reading some documents on the creation of a new image of the army, the principles of unification and dismemberment of units and formations, including scientific institutions, you involuntarily feel the cool attitude of the reformers to science in general and to military aviation medicine (VAM) in particular, the specificity of which lies in
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Stovetop fuel is highly efficient for rocket engines Designers have to invent new liquid-propellant rocket engines (LPRE) for
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Small spacecraft are capable of more Despite the rivalry of the leading space powers in the creation of high-capacity launch vehicles, in the near future, small and ultra-small spacecraft (MCA) will receive rapid development. What tasks will they solve?
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Thirty years before the first launch of the Space Ship Two rocket plane in the early eighties, the Soviet Union approached the need for space-less space launches. No wonder. A military power that has become militarily invincible thanks to mobile air defense of a mineless launch, like no one
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In Karachay-Cherkessia, in the vicinity of Mount Chapal, at an altitude of about 2,200 meters above sea level, a unique military facility is located - the Krona radio-optical complex for recognizing space objects. With its help, the Russian military controls near and deep space. Journalist
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The state needs not one super-powerful launch vehicle, but the SVK fleet
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In Russia, they seriously expect in the near future to compete with Elon Musk and his private space company Space X in the market for cheap space launches. Roscosmos and the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) are going to push out American competitors by selling
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The program for the development of near-earth space must be prepared anew The most promising way of exploration of near space, without a doubt, remains aerospace systems, which have significant