News archive on the topic "Moon"

The crash of the Luna-25 spacecraft could be due to the fact that imported microelements were used in its equipment. Alexander Losev, a member of the presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy of the Russian Federation, stated this today on the air of the Vesti FM radio station, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports: “Perhaps this is the wrong orientation of the device in space, the sensors are not the same when the braking impulse of the thrust was directed...

Russia is developing spaceships capable of flying to the Moon in order to explore the pole for the extraction of water, oxygen, hydrogen, and not to promote the landing of women or blacks on the lunar surface, as the Americans are planning. Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin stated this during the federal Educational Marathon “New Horizons,” PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Now I would like to show you the outlines of our...

In 2022, a “spider” robot will be delivered to the Moon, developed by a Western company, the founder of which is a native of Ukraine. In Kyiv they believe that this makes it possible to declare the revival of Ukraine’s space status. The founder and CEO of the British company Spacebit, Pavel Tanasyuk, announced this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We are flying on the NASA CLIPS program together...

The United States is preparing the ground for the actual capture of the Moon. A PolitNavigator correspondent reports that in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, Emil Saifullin, an employee of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, an expert of the Russian Council on International Affairs, stated this. According to him, the Moon has serious reserves of minerals: rare metals, for example, iridium and platinum, as well as an isotope of helium...

Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin announced flights of Russian spacecraft to the Moon, Mars and Venus in the next few years, as well as the construction of new cosmodromes and rockets. He wrote about this in his Telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “You can note the time: 2021 – launch of the MLM and the Nodal Module to the ISS, launch of Luna-25 with the European Pilot-D, launch of 2 launch vehicles...

Ukraine is trying to inflate its importance and attract the world's attention with stupid and impossible fantasies. The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that Kiev political scientist Yuri Romanenko, who previously actively supported the Maidan and called for the killing of Russian journalists in Donbass, writes about this on his blog. “I’m looking at the plus story about how Ukraine (!) is participating (!) in the race to explore (!) the Moon (!).…

The victorious march of coronavirus infection across the United States could not overshadow such an important event as the upcoming 2020 presidential election. During the election race, candidates spare no effort, promising voters heavenly pretzels after their election, or putting forward initiatives, each more wonderful than the other. So, for example, Trump’s main (and, most likely, now only) competitor, Joe Biden, the leader of the Democrats,...

Russia must respond to US President Donald Trump's decision to announce his country's right to the Moon. This opinion was expressed by political scientist Mikhail Friben in a commentary to Komsomolskaya Pravda. “Any international law is only a fixation of the balance of power between the world’s largest players, and if Trump began to dictate new rules of the game in space. Still, expansion into space is a question...

At the request of the White House, NASA must organize a flight of American astronauts to the Moon within the next five years, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Vice President Mike Pence said this during a speech at the American Aerospace Agency. He published a fragment of his speech on his Twitter. “The President has directed NASA and its director, Jim Bridenstine, to accomplish this task by any means necessary......

Ukraine and China will discuss new joint projects to launch Ukrainian satellites into orbit, as well as within the framework of the Chinese program for exploring the Moon and Mars. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte This was discussed during the July 1-5 visit of the delegation of the State Space Agency of Ukraine to the PRC, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent from...

On January 16, astronaut Eugene Cernan, the last earthling to walk on the surface of the Moon, passed away. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte. NASA website reports this. Cernan, 82, died surrounded by his family. In 1966, he became the second American to work outside of a spacecraft. Then he made two lunar expeditions -...