The discussion around space commercialization usually begins with the upstream sector – the development and design of spacecraft and their launch into orbit. This part of the work is before the public eye, it is understandable and looks effective. Thus, it is clear why most of the recent startups of the New Space movement are going to be involved…
“Spektr-RG”. Third Eye In The Universe
Russian-German Astrophysics Observatory “Spektr-RG” designed to plot up a complete map of the Universe in X-ray band was launched into space on July 13, 2019 by means of carrier missile “Proton-M”. It has been built over thirty years and having undergone a lot of alternations during that time this laboratory will remain the…
Change of Trade: Carrier Missile “Rokot”
If to look into the matter deeply and seriously, the military and civil space sectors do not differ much from each other. Originally, the whole global space industry has grown from military research related to design of first ballistic missiles. The first missile that overcame the Karman line and entered space was a German “Fau-2”…
FEDOR: Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research
Yevgeniy Dudorov, the Executive Director of NPO “Androidnaya Tekhnika”, one of the creators of Fedor the robot, has told “The New Defence Order. Strategy” magazine about the project that has been talked so much about lately. The talk took place shortly before the space launch of Skybot F-850. The robot had attended the International Space…
Invisible breakthrough: Russian Cosmonautics Significantly Reduced Flight Time to the ISS
By Mikhail Kotov Over the last year, the Russian space science made two achievements at once: made a flight of the Progress – unmanned cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station, using an ultra short scheme of three and a half hours, and returned to a short scheme, during manned flights, taking only six hours…