02.07.2001
12:54

Will Buran Fly Again?

25.06.2001
13:20

XXIV International Workshop on High Energy Physics and Field Theory

12.06.2001
10:25

New Atomic Submarine AKULA--2 Launched Several Days Ago

12.06.2001
10:23

First Thermonuclear Reactor Is Under Way in Russia

23.05.2001
20:00

New--Generation Carrier Rocket at le Bourget

21.05.2001
18:28

The Pellicle Beam Splitters

12.04.2001
10:16

First Man in Space - 40 Years Ago Sharp!

05.04.2001
16:12

Satellite Acquired by the Moon 35 Years ago

35 years have passed since "Luna-10", an Automatic Interplanetary Station (AIS), was put into orbit around the Moon and became its first artificial satellite. The "Molnia-M" rocket carrier with the AIS on board was launched at the BAIKONUR space-vehicle launching site on March 31, 1966. An engine was put into operation to decelerate the vehicle 3.5 days later and the apparatus was brought into a selenocentrical orbit. The main assignment of the flight was to verify functioning the board systems on the station and the rocket carrier through all flight stages. Scientific research assignments were not ignored either: the station was supplied with the device for radiation conditions around the Moon to be measured, gauges to detect solar plasma and meteorite particles, gamma spectrometer, etc. It was the "International" tune conveyed to the Earth from the station that was considered to be the apotheosis of the flight. "Luna-10" was under way for 56 days, 460 revolutions having been completed around our celestial counterpart. The American "Lunar Orbiter-1" was put into orbit around the Moon 4.5 months later.


Space News from Alexander Zhelezniakov


Translated by Nataliya Lipunova

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New Rocket Carrier is under Way at "Progress"

16.03.2001
17:15

Russian scientists support BeppoSax!

16.03.2001
16:53

Save the best Italian experiment!

08.03.2001
20:51

Yakov Zeldovich Would Have Today his 87th Anniversary

04.03.2001
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Forty Years Passed since the First Successful Interception of a Ballistic Missile

04.03.2001
13:27

First Thermonuclear Reactor May Be Elaborated in Russia

01.03.2001
22:18

Russian Coil for ITER

12.02.2001
14:58

11 Questions of American Physicists to the Universe and 11 comments of a Russian Astrophysicist

31.01.2001
16:03

35 Years Since the First Soft Landing on the

29.01.2001
16:15

High-energy charged particle flux variations in vicinity of Earth as earthquake precursors

24.01.2001
21:39

New National State Park in Russia

05.01.2001
16:34

World's Best Setup for Laser Treatment of Metals Developed in Novosibirsk