... Сегодня: 10 апреля 2016 г. Компания Virgin Galactic, основанная британским магнатом Ричардом Бренсоном, продала уже порядка двухсот билетов в космос. ... Билеты в космос Virgin Galactic продает по цене в 200 тысяч долларов США. ... В настоящее время Virgin Galactic занимается реализацией плана по строительству парка частных космических кораблей и созданию космодрома. ... Что касается, космодрома, то он, как ожидается, расположится в Нью-Мексико. ... Virgin Galactic продала около 200 билетов в космос...

... Для коммерческих полетов с туристами предполагается использовать несколько космодромов: . Spaceport America (США, штат Нью-Мексико) . ... В декабре 2005 года было объявлено, что компания Virgin Galactic и правительство американского штата Нью-Мексико (New Mexico) объявили о подписании соглашения по строительству частного космопорта, получившего название Southwest Regional Spaceport (в июле 2006 был переименован в Spaceport America ), стоимостью 225 миллионов долларов. ...

... ISC Kosmotras . ... Dnepr Cluster Mission 2013 19 June 2014. ... Mission profile SHM configuration Reliability Dnepr LV Performance Launch Sites . ... Depending on requirements of a specific launch mission, ISC Kosmotras offers several configurations of the Dnepr Space Head Module (SHM), where customer s payload will be accommodated. ... The SHM configuration is selected based on the type of the launch mission: dedicated, cluster (multiple small satellite) or shared (primary payload and a piggyback)...

... Space activity at the beginning of XXI-st Century view from inside G.M.Chernyavskiy STC for Earth Space monitoring of FSUE , Russia 1. The systemic approach in astronautics Everyone who has linked his life with astronautics and those who are interested in the future of the inhabitancy medium and its expansion up to cosmic scales, are troubled about the current state and development of space activity in the World and in the Native Land of the first artificial Earth satellite (AES). ...

... 03.32 AM - the first impulse is performed using the Progress M1-5 eight thrusters to construct the pre-descent orbit. ... maximal distance from earth surface - 219 km . minimal distance from earth surface - 188 km . ... 05.00.24 AM - the second impulse is performed using the Progress M1-5 eight thrusters to construct the pre- descent orbit. ... 08.08 AM - the final third breaking impulse is performed using a combination of the Progress M1-5 main engine and eight thrusters to deorbit Mir OC. ...

... THE 'VON OPEL FLIGHTS' . ... Raab, with his partner Diploma Engineer Kurt Katzenstein would apply to their lightest aeroplane the solid-propellant Sander rockets that had proven themselves so well in Fritz von Opel's rocket cars. ... The von Opel-Sander-Stamer-Lippisch tests were elevated to a full-scale airplane immediately after the model flights ; in effect, this was to be the first manned rocket flight. ... FRITZ VON OPEL at the controls of the Opel Sander Rak. 1 rocket plane. ...

Introduction to PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS (Selected 10 lectures) Boris V. Somov Astronomical Institute and Faculty of Physics Moscow State University Pushino-na-Oke, 2008 Contents Ab out These Lectures 1 Particles and Fields: Exact Self-Consistent Description 1.1 Liouville's theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.1 Continuity in phase space . . . . . . . . . 1.1.2 The character of particle interactions 1.1.3 The Lorentz force, gravity . . . . . . . . . 1.1.4 Collisional friction . . . . . . . . . . . .