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Post by gligorow on Jan 13, 2008 16:25:59 GMT -5
45 godina uspesnog početka ruske vasionske programe „Venera”, kojom je slovenski duh trijumfalno pionirski istražio ovu bliznakinju naše planete, misteriozne zvezde danice drevnih naroda. I pored glasnosti protivnika koji bi ruski uspeh u kosmonautici želeli da pripisu nesrazmerno velikim ulaganjima u budjet namenjen za vasionska istrazivanja, pre bi se moglo reći da su ovi velicanstveni uspesi, ne samo u vidu pionirskih rekorda, nego i u doprinosu nauci, nastali upravo nasuprot tiraniji i stega komunizma, a ne zbog njega. Historical remiscence of the Russian (then under auspices of USSR) space exploration program "Venera" (1961-1984), which pioneered the austronautical research of the planet Venus. ______________________________ www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWPlbZbfkig |
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Post by gligorow on Jan 14, 2008 14:34:10 GMT -5
And another of my modest contributions on Youtube: the Russian spacecraft "Buran",20 years later, after what due to the political and economic circumstances, was a single mission, but it stands as a success of the Russian technology. My statement stands: although USSR poured enormous, disproportionate ammount of resources into space exploration, due to its symbolic-political and military significance, the triumph of Russian science and technology was in spite of Communism, not because of it. youtube.com/watch?v=oQpimYXTgb0 |
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Post by gligorow on Jan 22, 2008 4:47:56 GMT -5
A tetralogy of videos which presents four Russian pioneering achievements in the exploration of space. 1957: Launching of the first artificial satellite, "Sputnik 1" 1961: First man in space - Yuri Gagarin 1963: Flight of the first woman in space - Valentina Tereškova 1965: Realization of the first spacewalk by Alexey Leonov www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQkOW76XZJ4 |
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Post by gleb on Jan 22, 2008 5:03:30 GMT -5
Sad that there's nothing about lunohod. Thanks anyway! For me these events in space research were among the most glorious Russian pages of history!
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Post by Lonevolk on Oct 4, 2007 8:19:12 GMT -5
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Post by balkannj on May 27, 2008 10:12:03 GMT -5
Released : Friday, May 23, 2008 4:01 PM MOSCOW-A news report in Russia says the country has successfully launched four satellites into orbit. The ITAR-TASS news agency says a booster rocket, launched from a northern base Friday, has placed three military satellites and one experimental one into a designated orbit. The report says the experimental satellite will maneuver in space using a solar-powered engine. It does not discharge a jet to generate thrust and is moved by whirling fluid and solid elements inside. The satellite will also broadcast a radio program and images describing the history of the Soviet space program. The broadcasts will commemorate the launch of Sputnik, the satellite that opened the space age in 1957. Russia has about 100 satellites in orbit. calibre.mworld.com/m/m.w?lp=GetStory&id=307819211 |
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Post by soldier7799 on May 30, 2008 14:06:38 GMT -5
Pozdrav,Russia returns where it belongs!
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Post by SlavsForever on Aug 26, 2008 10:24:13 GMT -5
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080825/sc_afp/usrussiaspaceisspolitics;_ylt=AsDBdXBql2DwH4Fex2d7VV0PLBIF WASHINGTON (AFP) - The chill left on US-Russian relations by Moscow's military incursion into Georgia could spell problems for future US access to the International Space Station, US experts said. ADVERTISEMENT The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will become dependent on flights to the ISS by Russia's Soyuz spacecraft when it retires the shuttle fleet that has long ferried US astronauts into space in 2010. NASA will only get its successor space vehicle, Orion, planned for a revival of trips to the moon, ready for flight in 2015 at the earliest. That leaves the needs of US astronauts visiting the ISS vulnerable to the possibility of a new Cold War between Washington and Moscow after Russia's powerful military overran much of Georgia two weeks ago in the dispute over South Ossetia. "If recent Russian actions are any indicator, a technical excuse to completely block US access to the ISS for geopolitical reasons would fit nicely into the Kremlin toolkit," Vincent Sabathier, an expert on human space exploration at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, told AFP. Sabathier noted that not only was the short Georgia war a serious thorn in relations, but also the US determination to set up in Poland and the Czech Republic its missile defense system, which Russia calls a threat to its military. "Almost immediately after the Czech Republic signed an agreement with the US to place missile defense tracking radar in its territory, oil supplies through the Druzhba pipeline to the central European country were reduced to a trickle ... ostensibly for technical reasons," Sabathier said. The end of the three-decade-old shuttle program leaves NASA with at least a five-year hole on which it will have to pay Russia's space agency to deliver and retrieve US astronauts and cargo to the ISS. That depends as well on the US Congress voting an exemption to a 2000 law that bans US government agencies from opening contracts with countries like Russia that are considered aiding Iran and North Korea, which the US has labelled supporters of terrorism. Even before the Georgia fighting erupted on August 8 there was opposition in the Congress to such an exemption, and now that has likely increased, according to Florida Democratic Senator Bill Nelson. "In an election year, it was going to be very difficult to get that waiver to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to an increasingly aggressive Russia," Nelson said. "Now, I'd say it's almost impossible." Nelson, who supports allowing NASA to contract the Soyuz, said that without the exemption the US could find itself in 2011 with no access to the 100-billion-dollar space station -- largely paid for by the United States. Because the ISS needs someone aboard all the time to keep it going, the situation, Nelson said, would mean leaving the station to "degrade and burn up on rentry, or with us ceding it to those who can get there." NASA's chief Michael Griffin told AFP just days before the Georgia conflict erupted that it was a "great concern" that something could happen to make Soyuz unavailable. "If anything at all in that five years period goes wrong with the Russian Soyuz, then we have no system to access the space station." But after the Russia invasion of Georgia, NASA downplayed the political risk, saying it has a long history of cooperation with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos). "While it is possible that government-to-government issues could potentially have an impact on other aspects of a relationship between nations, including cooperative space exploration activities, NASA believes that it will be able to rely upon Roscosmos-provided Soyuz vehicles for future space station activities." John Logsdon of George Washington University's Space Policy Center expects Congress to allow the waiver, "as long as Russia can be said to be abiding by the terms of the cease-fire (in Georgia)." "There is an issue but I don't think it's so strong to prevent the waiver from passing, as long as Russian behavior is what it has been agreed to on Georgia," Logsdon told AFP. However, he said, "if the situation with Russia gets much worst, then it's very hard to project what might happen because again, there is really no viable alternative."
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Post by medo on Feb 12, 2009 8:28:08 GMT -5
US Iridium satellite collides with secret Russian military craft above Siberia
Russian and US communication satellites collided in space today at the height of over 800 kilometers above the territory of Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region, an official spokesman for NASA Kelly Hamphries said. The incident occurred Tuesday, February 10, Itar-Tass reports. It goes about Russia’s defunct satellite launched in 1983 and a US communication satellite launched in 1997. The US craft was a part of Iridium global mobile communication network owned by Motorola. Each of the satellites weighed more than 500 kilograms. The accident marked the first-ever collision of undamaged spacecraft in orbit. At least two large clouds of debris were formed as a result of the collision. The fragments of the satellites pose no danger to the International Space Station, because the station sits on a lower orbit, NASA officials said. Russia’s Roscosmos Space Corporation told RIA Novosti that the collision did not result in any losses for the company. Four other similar incidents were reported last year, when small satellites collided with space garbage, NASA said. The accident occurred on the altitude used by weather, communication and scientific satellites. The collision did not result in any technical problems for customers, although some of them may experience difficulties in using their cell phones. The US satellite was launched into space on board a Russian booster rocket in 1997. The Russian craft, which was launched in 1983, stopped operating about five years ago, specialists said. Orbits of many other satellites will have to be changed to protect them against similar accidents. Russia’s Cosmos 2251 military communication satellite was not operating for many years. It was living out its days in orbit like many other old satellites. Cosmos 2251 satellite weighs about 800 kilos. It was used as a communication satellite for military purposes. The satellite lasts for only three years. Iridium 33/24946 is a commercial communication craft weighing about 700 kilos. It lasts from five to eight years. There were 66 Iridium satellites in near-Earth orbit before the collision. Iridium Holdings LLC will replace the damaged satellite during the upcoming 30 days. Iridium satellites have been in use since 1989 to provide mobile communication via Iridium satellite phones that cover the planet entirely. The number of Iridium customers amounts to over 330,000. Iridium telephones are twice as large as conventional cellular phones. Iridium satellites are capable of moving at a very low orbit, unlike other satellites that can operate only on high altitudes. english.pravda.ru/science/earth/12-02-2009/107095-satellites_collide_siberia-0
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Post by medo on Feb 12, 2009 8:39:56 GMT -5
The great war has already begun! As I said here www.slavija.proboards37.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=6839 we must prepare ourselves to fight for the freedom and annihilation of the fascism. If it takes nuclear holocaust I am ready. If the world cannot be fair, if the same ones who rob us by flooding us with worthless dollars they have been printing for decades stealing the value from the rest of the world while forcing us to take them for our trade, the same ones who now live on support from the rest of the world while sucking most resources, the same ones who now start to look at the rest of us the same way their ancestors looked at the American Indians, if those cannot live in a fair system of civilized relations between the nations there will be no world. No one will ever need oil or gas for the next 100000 years! |
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Post by medo on Feb 12, 2009 10:24:43 GMT -5
Even in these days of economic hardship I think Russia should very seriously think of boosting its ongoing energy projects (pipelines) towards the East Asia (China, Japan, Korea). Metaphorically speaking I would give China oil and gas for "free" just to boost their production and keep their industry running. Russia and China can consume the goods. Russia should also expand its energy projects with India too. The fact is that the West is currently really burden for the world to develop evenly and thus to reduce the big difference between the West and the rest of the world. We our fed up of their threats and blackmails.
Sometimes I have a feeling that Russia wants to build an alliance with the West at all costs. But Russia should cut itself off the sinking western Titanic. If it takes a year or two of hardship just to cut itself (or more precisely to make Russia significantly independent on the West) I think it would be worth of it! In the coming decades Russia should not be selfish and it should open its borders to educated people from all over the world to make Russia stronger.
All this is not logic based on some irrational hatred (God is my witness, and I demonstrated this on this forum too, that I do not hate anyone, including our brothers and sisters in the western countries) but simply a calm logic saying that the West is really sick. They really need help. The best what one can do to help them is to try to avoid them for the next, say, 5 years and let them time to accept the reality that the world changed and intends to continue to change in the same direction and that it cannot be the same as it was before under their colonial hegemony.
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Post by TsarSamuil on Feb 15, 2009 6:17:46 GMT -5
ehm considering how much space junk, and debris surrounds the earth, they are craming it with more satellites all the time, it's just a matter of time, not if, they collide..
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Post by Lonevolk on Feb 22, 2009 20:41:17 GMT -5
Even in these days of economic hardship I think Russia should very seriously think of boosting its ongoing energy projects (pipelines) towards the East Asia (China, Japan, Korea). It's happening as we write this, although it should've been done years earlier.....still better late than never Here's some news reports on some recent major Rus. energy deals in the Pacific Rim with China, Japan and South Korea www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E09jZYJdFs...... As far as the satellite collision goes, I don't think there was anything sinister behind it. From what I've seen, Norad knew there would be a close encounter but thought the satellites would miss each other by about 800m to 1 km so no countermeasures were undertaken.....the Russian satellite was an old inactive military communication satellite of the "Strela-2 type which is no longer used Here's a short animation of the collision....they collided at almost 90 degrees i39.tinypic.com/2vbk75z.gif |
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Post by medo on Feb 23, 2009 12:19:27 GMT -5
Even in these days of economic hardship I think Russia should very seriously think of boosting its ongoing energy projects (pipelines) towards the East Asia (China, Japan, Korea). It's happening as we write this, although it should've been done years earlier.....still better late than never Here's some news reports on some recent major Rus. energy deals in the Pacific Rim with China, Japan and South Korea www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E09jZYJdFs...... As far as the satellite collision goes, I don't think there was anything sinister behind it. From what I've seen, Norad knew there would be a close encounter but thought the satellites would miss each other by about 800m to 1 km so no countermeasures were undertaken.....the Russian satellite was an old inactive military communication satellite of the "Strela-2 type which is no longer used Here's a short animation of the collision....they collided at almost 90 degrees i39.tinypic.com/2vbk75z.gifHey lonevolk, we haven't heard from you for a long time. How are you? How are things in Australia? I guess not so bad as in USA... |
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Post by Lonevolk on Feb 23, 2009 15:57:36 GMT -5
Hey lonevolk, we haven't heard from you for a long time. How are you? How are things in Australia? I guess not so bad as in USA... I'm not bad.. I was flat out at work from November till January and then took some time off so I haven't posted in a while. Things here are getting worse but we haven't been hit as bad as some countries so far. But to give you an idea how desperate the government is to avoid a serious recession, they've been throwing money around like crazy so a budget surplus of $20 billion (which took a decade to save) has turned into a $30 billion deficit (projected to get bigger) in a matter of a few months. Then we have bushfires burning out of control. I suppose you guys heard that 2 weeks ago over 200 people were burned to death.....fires are still burning but since that day they've managed to keep them out inhabited areas. |
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