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One of the first statement of a new chief Vladimir Roscosmos Popovkina media could be an announcement of a large shift in the Russian astronautics over the coming years. Kommersant Daily Popovkinovu statement states that the space programs in the coming years require much more investment than the former, while noting that almost half of the budget so far poured into [...]

NASA's spacecraft from Project Grail are ready for months of research odyssey of our natural satellite. Grail Grail-A and-B are small spacecraft mass only 135kg made at Astrotech Space Operations. We have performed tests, are equipped with fuel and set on launching special adapters. Below are their deconservation and transport to Florida where they will get [...]

After six years of operation on Mars for nearly three years of targeted travel to a large crater Endeavour NASA's Opportunity rover is located in the area of ​​Cape York at the entrance to the crater. The great success of the engineers, scientists and mission controllers that was originally conceived as a three-month odyssey of robotic vehicles. Endeavour Crater is impressive [...]

Clusters of interplanetary matter formed and scattered path of the comet Swift-Tuttle has more than 2000 years, during July and August, come into collision path with our planet. This is a piece size of corn kernels, tennis balls, basketballs and more. Speed ​​of over 70 km / s rush prematurely into the upper atmosphere, where [...]

Surface of Mars is experiencing seasonal changes that would cause could be the surface or beneath the surface fluctuations of salt water, the conclusion of the article published in the latest issue of Science. Observations NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft (MRO) in high resolution gives very clear evidence of seasonal change in the Martian surface on sunny places during the [...]