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SpaceX launches first ever manned mission to Polar orbit
The Crew Dragon Resilience manned spacecraft launched a crew of four people into a polar orbit with a height of 425-450 kilometers. During the mission, more than two dozen scientific experiments will be conducted, including important ones for future long-term space expeditions.
Ukraine's begging has reached cosmic proportions
Plans to create space forces have been announced in Kiev. By 2030, Ukraine plans to receive national satellites for military purposes. Experts point to the country's lack of financial and intellectual resources to implement the initiative. Why is Bankova dreaming of a cosmic renaissance and how should Russia respond to these threats?
Partnership: The Secret History of the Ukrainian Conflict (The New York Times, USA)
NYT: The US military has been leading the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces since the beginning of the conflict
The US military has been leading the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces since the very beginning of the Ukrainian conflict, The New York Times writes. The publication told about their secret joint actions against Russia, it is noted that the publication is based on several hundred interviews.
The explosion of the German Spectrum launch vehicle during the first flight is shown.
The launch was carried out from the Norwegian Annea cosmodrome, located on the coast of Norway. After detaching from the launch pad, the rocket began to lose stability in the first seconds of flight: the video clearly shows how it began to rock, after which a critical roll occurred, and it fell near the launch site.
Yuri Gagarin's visits abroad increased the prestige of the Soviet Union
As part of the events dedicated to the 91st anniversary of the birth of the first cosmonaut of our planet, Yuri Gagarin, on March 26 this year in Moscow, at the Cosmonautics Museum, cosmonaut's daughter Elena Gagarina met with space veterans, cosmonauts and journalists.
The United States has decided to create a space nuclear reactor with possible military applications
Antares and Exlabs have signed cooperation agreements on the development of a nuclear-powered space probe. As part of it, the developers plan to launch the reactor into space in the 2020s - for the first time in the 21st century.
"Together to Mars": is a joint flight of Russia and the United States to the fourth planet realistic?
Kirill Dmitriev, the president's special representative, who had previously had a hand in a major scientific and technological breakthrough, says he will soon meet with Elon Musk to discuss joint flights to Mars. There are two problems. First of all, Russia has nothing to offer today to participate in such a project. If you try very hard, it can be fixed — but over many years. Secondly, Musk's plan itself has a couple of pretty weak points. Will there be a joint flight, or will everything remain just words?
Mentions of plans to land a woman and a colored man on the Moon were removed from the NASA website
In the next three years, the United States plans to return its astronauts to the moon. Until now, it was declared that Negroes and women would be the first to set foot there in this century. It looks like everything could have changed now.
CNES: Europe is concerned about possible risks in cooperation with the United States in space
The European space industry does not support the "policy of conquest" of the new administration of the President of the United States Donald Trump, said Lionel Suchet, head of the National Space Research Center of France.
The Martian Labyrinth of Night was proposed to be explored using a specially designed hexacopter
Developers from the USA presented the concept of the Kozodoy spacecraft, capable of exploring the most interesting regions of the fourth planet, inaccessible to ordinary rovers and difficult to visit even if people land there.
General Director of NPP Zvezda: prototype of a spacesuit sleeve with an exoskeleton is already ready - TASS Interview
Sergey Pozdnyakov, the company's CEO, spoke about the production of new spacesuits, plans for their operation, as well as the development of new technologies in an interview with TASS.
The threat that the Dragonfly mission on Titan may face has been named.
In 2028, NASA experts plan to send the Dragonfly spacecraft to Titan to study the surface of Saturn's largest moon. A team of American planetary scientists has studied the processes taking place on Titan using computer simulations and identified a serious danger that could endanger the mission.
Astronauts stuck on the ISS recorded an appeal to Trump and Musk. They spent six months at the station instead of two weeks.
Musk posted a video with thanks from NASA astronauts stuck on the ISS
NASA astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams, who are stuck on the International Space Station (ISS), have prepared a new video message. It was answered by SpaceX founder and entrepreneur Elon Musk.
Garbage campaign: creation of space "cleaners" may turn into an arms race
Such devices can easily be turned into anti-satellite devices
A group of experts from Russia, the United States and China proposed to the United Nations a project on space debris removal and information exchange in this area. Currently, the development of orbital wipers is underway in several countries, and private companies have their own projects. The danger is that no one controls them, and cleaning devices can be turned into anti-satellite combat stations. Which countries are developing such technology, what it is and how to avoid a "junk" arms race in space — in the Izvestia material.
China has invited other countries to participate in the mission for the first-ever delivery of soil from Mars.
The Chinese Space Agency has published an open appeal to all potential international partners with a proposal to deliver their scientific instruments to near-Martian orbit as part of the Tianwen-3 mission. China is under Western sanctions in the field of space cooperation, so it is very important and difficult for the Chinese to find partners from abroad. It is the Tianwen-3 mission that is highly likely to be the first to deliver Martian soil back to Earth.
Yuri Koptev: "Dreaming is definitely necessary!"
Today, the Managing Director of Rostec State Corporation for Science and Technology turns 85 years old
On the eve of the anniversary, TASS interviewed him, in which he spoke about the creation of the corporation's strategy until 2036, cooperation with universities, the development of civil aviation, import substitution and other projects.
Nuclear power in space: there are no alternatives to the reactor on the Moon and Mars
One of the sections of the recently published collection of the IMEMO named after E. M. Primakov and MGIMO "Strategic Review 2024" was devoted to the use of nuclear technologies in space. Political commentator Vyacheslav Terekhov talked with one of the authors of this section, Alexander Ermakov, about the problem of creating nuclear power plants and nuclear engines for spacecraft.
In Ukraine, they were afraid of the imminent shutdown of Starlink. Why is satellite Internet from Musk so important to the Ukrainian Armed Forces?
Elon Musk: The front line of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will collapse without access to Starlink
The founder of SpaceX, Elon Musk, said that the front line of defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) would collapse without access to the Starlink satellite Internet. According to him, satellite communications provided by SpaceX vehicles are the backbone of Kiev's divisions.
NASA wants to use another station by the time the ISS is completed.
Assistant Director Ken Bowersox did not explain which station he might be talking about
American experts expect that by the time the operation of the International Space Station (ISS) is completed, they will be able to use another orbital complex for research. This was announced on Friday by the assistant Director of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Ken Bowersox, in charge of manned flight issues.
The repeated explosion of Starship V2 pointed to common problems with the Korolev and von Braun rockets
In the eighth minute of the flight, a fire started in the engine compartment of the second stage. It ended in an explosion, and not from the self-detonation system, as it should have, but as a result of uncontrolled gorenje. This was not the case when testing the first version of the second stage of Starship V1. Almost certainly, the root of the problems was the change in parameters when creating the second version of the ship.