In April, Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud visited Russia’s Flight Control Center and stated that the Russian experience of outer space exploration would be included in the Saudi national space strategy. In November, 18 at the Dubai Airshow 2019 Head of Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin discussed possible cooperation in…
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…
From the Desert to Space
Salem Al Marri, the Head of the UAE Astronaut Programme at Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) talked to the New Defence Order. Strategy magazine about the first ever Emirati mission to the International Space Station (ISS). In September 2018, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum named Hazza Al-Mansouri and Sutlan Al-Neyadi as the first Emirati astronauts to…
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…
“All-seeing” space-based reconnaissance and targeting system
Author Pavel Rumyantsev Since the mid-20th century, the striking power of Russia’s Navy is based on submarines and long-range heavy supersonic anti-ship missile (ASM) carriers. Russian ASMs are the most powerful anti-ship weapons able to efficiently counter the potential enemy’s shipborne air defence systems, including aircraft carrier groups. The National Defense Management Center (NCMC)…
Space for Everybody
Weiyang is a tiny planet with the orbit inside the Mercury orbit. On average its distance from the Sun is about ten million kilometers. It was discovered three years ago by Chinese comrades and called “Weiyang” – “the Sun’s bodyguard” or something like that. […] Lu Shi-er failed to closely approach this planet but he…
Space Technologies on the Ground, under Water and in the Air
Speaking of the space technologies’ application here, “on the ground”, certainly, nobody provides using special small-lot and, for this reason, expensive components. The point is, first, of the “space” reliability level of the ground systems, and, second, of the use of “dual-purpose” components – for example, electronics and optics which may be manufactured both for…