June 2014
Why become a cosmonaut? To preserve knowledge
... lead time. Many items produced for space activities are used only for spaceflight. So a decision about a Soyuz launch that will happen more than two years from now has already been taken, and...
December 2014
Skolkovo and a new breed of Russian space startups
.... Tsetlin hopes that his models will help light all 64 steering and cruising thrust chambers of the Soyuz-2 rocket, due to launch from Vostochny cosmodrome in 2016. The work is being done in close cooperation with several...
December 2014
From the green economy to green space
... and cost the Russian state some RUS 300 billion (2013 prices). The first launch of the Soyuz-2 rocket is planned for 2015 and the first piloted flight for 2018. As one of the centre-pieces...
December 2014
A door closes
...back cooperation in space. Both Russians and Americans of a certain generation will have vivid memories of the Apollo–Soyuz mission in 1975 as a striking symbol of the possibilities of cooperation between global rivals and the hopes of a better world...
March 2015
Sizing down and reaching higher with CubeSats
... different vehicles. Commercially, one can deploy on Russian and Indian vehicles. And the European Vega and Soyuz also offer flight opportunities. Meanwhile, NanoRacks’ deployment program from the International Space Station, according to Planet...
June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
... now to go out there and actually do something that positively affects the future of humanity on Earth.” Space Shuttle, Soyuz, and Space Station Astronaut Ed Lu B612 Foundation Founder & CEO The University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and...
