October 2015
Green cosmonautics: an ideal to strive for
... total area of launch facilities at Cape Canaveral, Wallops, Vandenberg, and Kwajalein is less than half the size of Russia’s Plesetsk launch facilities and the facilities at Baikonur. If we develop reusable rockets and one-stage, multi-environment...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
...Ever since the US retired its Space Shuttle in 2011, NASA pays Russia US$70 million a seat to send its astronauts to the Space Station. ... that would accrue to nations like the US, Europe, Russia and China - which already possess varied levels of space...
October 2017
Third quarter phenomenon - the psychology of time in space
... international crew of researchers on MARS500 (from left): Alexey Sergeyevich Sitev (Russia), Romain Charles (France), Sukhrob Rustamovich Kamolov (Russia), Alexandr Egorovich Smoleevskiy (Russia), Diego Urbina (Italy) and Wang Yue (China). Over the...
August 2018
Flouting the rules on satellite registrations
... objects. Similarly, while mentioning date and time, although most States use GMT, some States, such as Russia, use local or national meridian time. In terms of general function information, the States’ reports range from two...
November 2018
Creating the ‘Space for Art Foundation’
... successful mission of the spacesuits by building two more, Dreamer and Exploration. Dreamer, led by the UNITY team in Russia, will be an Orlan-based suit created from children’s artwork from all 15 of the ISS countries and built...
July 2019
Science and sensation in microgravity
...to ZeroG Corporation and Integrated Spaceflight Services. Canada, Russia and Japan each average one campaign per year, ...several airports, and Orlando in Florida in particular. In Russia, Roscosmos still has three specialised IL-76MDK aircraft and the...
