Facts about space exploration

Interesting notes about modern and contemporary space.

Explorer-59 became the first spacecraft, which flew through the tail of a comet.

In 2018 it is planned to launch a new type of space telescopes, which is designed to detect gravitational waves in space.

The largest TsUPy are based on the Russian Space Agency, NASA, ESA and CNSA.



Founded in 1982, Orbital Science Corporation produced 174 satellites and more than 560 rockets.

August 11, 2011 in the framework of the New Frontiers, aimed at the study of the most mysterious and unknown regions of the solar system, the device will launch Juno.

The nearest mission to detect biological activity on Mars is scheduled for implementation later this year.

Thanks to communications satellites Molniya-1 + in the USSR dramatically increased the number of viewers, and satellites Molniya-1T allowed to establish control of the missile troops.

After 20 years of production of communications satellites "Raduga-1 (SC)" is replaced by a modified version.

Military relay satellites "Flow" were placed on the platform Kaur-4 and first used on-board computers onboard computer and plasma thrusters.

Analogue of the geostationary orbit for Mars is Areostationary orbit, the height of which 17,000 km.

Italian Umberto Guidoni was the first European astronaut on board the International Space Station.

The first Dutchman, who was in space, is a member of both the American and the European Physical Society.

The payload is delivered to the ISS usually weighs about 2, 5 tons and is approximately one-third of the load into orbit.

For 14 years, 39 missions were taken to the station "Mir" 104 astronauts from 12 countries.

Captain five space crews are now working on the oil and gas company.

Agency NASA was established on the basis of "enhanced and renamed" by NACA.

State Space Agency of Ukraine is considering the idea of ​​creating your own lunar probe.

NASA and ESA have jointly sent scientific apparatus to Mars orbit by 2016.

"Discovery» STS-31 orbited understaffed "Hubble" and the STS-103 helped equip the space telescope.

There propulsion (shown.) Spacecraft does not consume fuel.

Centennial spaceship should sposobstvat move the Red Planet.

China's first space satellite literally sang the communist system and personally Mao Zedong.

Already this month, the International Space Station will begin to settle robot astronaut with a gold head.

The first space hotel designed for a maximum of seven people, starting with the 2015-2016 year.

The length of the circumpolar Canyon of Mars is much more than the famous Grand Canyon on Earth.

On the "family portrait" of our solar system, the Earth takes less than a pixel.

German Aerospace Center is located in the village called Oberpfaffenhofen.

SC "Viking 1" in addition to the exploration of Mars was aimed to test the general theory of relativity.

Through the efforts of "Italian von Braun" Italy is among the space-faring nations.

Italian first satellite was launched from the Baikonur Wallops American in 1964.

On the basis of the space platform series Kaur was built more than 400 satellites, both military and civil purposes.

As the orbital housing corporation Bigelow Aerospace plans to use the inflatable modules.

According to one of the projects for the regular output of goods into orbit rocket is not necessary.

The first reconnaissance satellite will permit visual observation in real time, has become an American KH-11.

Asteroid mining in diameter, for example, 1, 5 km the potential to generate revenue in the tens of trillions of dollars.

As part of the action of the longest project on remote sensing of the Earth was obtained over a billion pictures of the planet.

The first satellite series Yaogan collapsed in February of this year, presumably due to an internal explosion.

With the Air Force base at Cape Canaveral launched into space the first American, but never started shuttles.

The pilot of the first private manned spacecraft SpaceShipOne recognized astronaut, but not an astronaut.

Last shuttle mission to the ISS is scheduled for June 28, 2011, but has not yet received approval from the US Congress.

After troubleshooting manned capsule Tycho Brahe Denmark could become the first country in Europe by the private suborbital flight.

At the time, the United States refused to build the equivalent of the orbital station Mir due to the high cost of the project.

Used on the ISS space docking mechanism developed by Yeshe for the "Soyuz - Apollo»

The first African-American woman, flown in space, the first of the astronauts starred in the TV series "Star Trek."

Of the 75 man-made objects on the Moon 23 - Soviet proizodstva.

German engineering reusable spacecraft involves the use of special cooling gas to protect the body when entering the atmosphere.

Manned spacecraft corporation Boeing - CST-100 can fly into space in 2014.

Rocket engine of the future is unlikely to ever launched from Earth because of its potential radioactivity.

NASA has recognized one of the American test pilots astronaut only 40 years after his flight.

The first satellite and the first man launched into space from the same pad

To search for extrasolar planets, NASA will launch a telescope at a distance of 82 million miles from Earth

The name of the first cosmonaut of Slovakia was awarded the asteroid under number 22901

Soon, instead of the shuttle cargo delivery to the ISS will perform "Swan»

At this point in the Astronaut Hall of Fame included 77 names

EUMETSAT does not only weather forecasting, but also the study of the ocean

The first living creatures safely flown moon became turtles aboard ship series "Soyuz 7K-L1" or Zond 5

One of the machines series "Cosmos" was killed in a clash with US satellite

Ukraine on April 12 along with the Cosmonautics Day and celebrate Day of the space industry of Ukraine

In 2002, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics committed rebranded to better promote the global education market

The first artificial satellite of the Sun became a Soviet spacecraft called "Luna 1»

After the planned 2011 launch of the first satellite of Azerbaijan will also be operated and Malaysia