... volumes of up to 10,000 liters per year in 2028–2037, and with
Maybell Quantum
for thousands of liters annually in 2029–2035. Together with the heavy equipment manufacturer... ... are possible only with refueling and fuel production beyond Earth.
Andrey Kortunov:
Space development: Star Wars or Star Trek?
China and India are also actively participating... ... development of technologies for the future International Lunar Research Station, a joint Russian-Chinese project.
For its part, India’s Chandrayaan-4 mission, scheduled for...
Over the last 20 years, China and Russia promoted the idea of complete demilitarization of outer space
During a recent regular press briefing in Washington, John Kirby, White House National Security Communications Advisor,... ... of us depend on satellites more and more. Today, they are widely used by both public and private sectors, and every year thousands of satellites arrive in already crowded orbits. To blind even a few of them—for example, with high-precision laser beams—would ...
... flyovers over the targets), the U.S. Space Force plans to build a multi-layered “national” constellation of more than one thousand satellites that will handle the tasks of communication, missile defence, missile attack warning [
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], intelligence (with ... ... purposes, and the U.S. Military and government agencies own less than 400 of them.
Sonay Sorac:
Discourse Has Changed From Space as a Sanctuary to the Next Warfighting Domain
Russia calls the Sfera constellation of about 600 satellites
its “main project in applied cosmonautics
” for the next decade....
The second space race was a political imitation rather than an actual space exploration competition
... ... opportunity to pause and reflect on the prospects of astronautics not just from the Russian perspective but in terms of humanity in general. The April 12, 1961 launch of... ... erstwhile Soviet and U.S. research, namely the creation of space stations and/or reusable manned spacecraft.
The so-called second space race was a political imitation...
Acquisition of Space Systems, Volume 7.
Past Problems and Future Challenges
.
More than a review
The past five years has been a period of stagnation ... ... the title of the “Second Space Race”
[1]
. Today, research into space has once again fallen out of favour. Both Russia and the United States closed their ambitious projects to study deep space in 2011–2012, effectively putting an end ...
... for creating and sending a completely private robot to the surface of the Moon. As a side note, this team has founded a national venture company RoboCV in the field of robotics
[21]
. Another example of a private Russian space company is Dauria Aerospace, which was founded by billionaire Mikhail Kokorich and has offices in Russia (Skolkovo Innovation Center), Germany and the USA. The company intends to develop and deploy a system of monitoring and communication satellites and provide their services to consumers through electronic subscription.
Dauria Aerospace
Satellite DX-1
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The intensive development of private astronautics,...
Sanctions and Russia
The sanctions imposed on Russia in connection with the situation in Ukraine and Crimea are not so much a tool for exerting ... ... increasingly significant impact on the Russian economy”
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In early April, formal American sanctions were extended to space cooperation. NASA Associate Administrator Michael O’Brien wrote in a memo that the US government had determined that ...
... limited by financial constraints. Russia continues manned space flights on Soyuz type spacecrafts, and the USA explores deep space with the help of improved automated stations of Pioneer and Voyager type that were developed in the 1970ies. Moreover, Russia and the USA are the only countries having the full range of space research tools.
There are serious problems hiding behind all that. Two factors made the space breakthrough of the 1960ies possible. The first one was the proliferation of natural and exact sciences. The second one was governmental funding of major ...
