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Despite all the achievements of the United States in space exploration, which more advertised by NASA than actually implemented, many analysts believe that Russia, as a successor to the Soviet The Union remains the leading space power. About it more eloquent than any statements and public demonstrations say recent achievements of the Russian Federation in this area.
Russia creates a nuclear satellite with a laser irradiator
Russian Space Agency “Roskosmos” announced the development of a spacecraft that will operate on nuclear energy. This unit will be equipped with a laser irradiator for remote charging with electricity of other unmanned devices in low Earth orbit. Such an innovation will allow domestic scientists stably support charging our orbiting satellites with minimal effort.
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Creation of an advanced space complex with a function directional power transmission through laser radiation was assigned to the design bureau Arsenal. During next year, St. Petersburg engineers and designers will provide basic characteristics of the satellite, determine its design options appearance, they will develop ways to bring the device to near-Earth orbit and decide what to do with the device when it occurs emergency situations. It is reported that nuclear power output installation will be 100-1000 kilowatts.
Recall that last year, space rocket specialists Energy Corporation in Korolev successfully completed ground tests of a laser emitter, transferring energy with it distance of 1.5 kilometers. At the same time, work on space nuclear fuel vehicles have been in operation in Russia since 2010. Some experience in the development of such complexes was still in Soviet Union, where they created more than 30 pieces. In 1978, one of them – the space reconnaissance satellite “Cosmos-954” – fell in Canada, which caused a grand international scandal. USSR was then forced pay compensation in the amount of several million dollars.
Russia put into orbit a unique military device
In turn, the aerospace forces of the Russian Federation recently successfully tested the world’s first maneuvering guided satellite, aiming which, among other things, will be rapprochement and destruction other orbital objects
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True for the new Russian spacecraft, this will be far from a priority. As stated by the Ministry of Defense Russian Federation, this innovative project was required in first of all, in order to evaluate the functional of orbital satellites of other countries.
Note that there are programs for the development of such military devices in both the United States and China. A certain race for the military space superiority has been around for a long time since modern war requires an increasingly sophisticated weapon based on space communications and navigation, and without protective satellites in this case is not enough.
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