On Cosmonautics Day, specialists from UEC-Kuznetsov, the Samara company of Rostec United Engine Corporation, conducted an online lesson for schoolchildren. In the air, the designer, technologist and assembler of rocket engines spoke about the profession of an engine builder, showed unique video footage of the production. The shipment was made directly from the rocket engine … Read more
Hello to all space adventurers and lovers of dreaming about distant stars! No, not the ones from glossy magazines or scandalous videos on video hosting sites. And most things that are neither real nor enticing from distant space. Twenty years ago, before the tsunami of comic book mania hit the world, science fiction did not … Read more
A short guide to action. {“id”:49704,”type”:”num”,”link”:”https://vc.ru/future/49704-hochu-poletet-v-kosmos-chto-delat”,” gtm”:””,”prevCount”:null,”count”:36,”isAuthorized”:false} {“id”:49704,”type”:1,”typeStr”:”content”,”showTitle”:false,”initialState”:{“isActive”:false},”gtm”:””} {“id”:49704,”gtm”:null} 31,437 views With the development of science, our possibilities expand. What 20 years ago seemed to be something very far away (for example, a flight into space for a “mere mortal”, not an astronaut), is becoming a reality today. And in a few decades it will … Read more
Tomorrow, the first conditionally touristic suborbital flight of the “space” aircraft SpaceShipTwo of the British billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic company will take place. The day before in Twitter Blue Origin by another billionaire – Jeff Bezos (Jeff Bezos) – there was a message that the spacecraft Virgin Galactic did not recognize the flight. According … Read more
“The fact that our universe is expanding was discovered almost a hundred years ago, but how exactly this happens, scientists realized only in the 90s of the last century, when powerful telescopes (including orbital ones) appeared and the era of accurate cosmology began. During observations and analysis of the data obtained, it turned out that … Read more
This week, the US Senate decided to create the Space Corps as part of the national armed forces, which will be a separate branch of the military led by the US Air Force. On the one hand, from a change in the places of the terms, the sum does not change very much. On the … Read more
Today will be rich in space launches, which will be carried out by four companies at the same time. Two of these have already been conducted by the aerospace company Rocket Lab and United Launch Alliance, and two more will be held during the day. In addition to the mentioned companies, Blue Origin and SpaceX … Read more
Modern weapons do not work without space systems The new fundamentals of defense and the medium-term plan of defense policy, which are planned to be developed by the end of this year, should highlight cyberspace and outer space as separate important items. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also notes that “it is important to maintain excellence … Read more
According to various forecasts, the colonization of Mars can begin as early as 2030. So far, Mars is only of research interest, but if the process of its development directly for human life still begins, sooner or later the question will arise about how the territory will be divided between states, what one has to … Read more
Continuing the 21st Century Sputnik Shock series, whose first seven issues dealt with China’s space strategy, we are devoting the next few issues to Japan’s space policy. Of the G7 countries, Japan is the latest to actively engage in the use of space for national defense. Let us consider Japan’s space policy, which is facing … Read more