The article discusses the necessity of taking into account the members of international interplanetary expeditions’ national psychological characteristics as an important element of ensuring their stable and positive interaction in the preparation and implementation of a flight program. At the same time, it is noted that the key moment of this process is the formation of a tolerant ethnic environment in the crew training process. The foundations of individual and group communication in terms of the understanding of foreign language partners’ ethnopsychological characteristics and its typical features are described.
The article is devoted to the review of one of the most important phenomena in the life of Russian aeronautics - the creation and operation of the Kirzhach-D air base. For 10 years it provided the operation of the aviation company - operator of domestic civilian airships AU - 30. With the help of these multi-purpose soft helium airships, a number of unique aviation works were carried out to monitor ground infrastructure facilities. A number of other important applied scientific tasks were solved as well. All this was done after more than semicentennial activity interruption as far as domestic airship industry of such level is concerned.
Removing at least half of space debris, consisting of large metal objects, could be a cost-effective activity if, first, it becomes raw material, along with other extraterrestrial resources such as regolith, for the production of heat shields which is aimed to return the upper stages of medium and heavy rockets and, secondly, as a working medium for low-thrust electric rocket engines of interorbital tugs. Heat shields from external resources provide a means of increasing the payload of reusable launch vehicles.
The article reviews retrospectives and prospects of design and technological solutions for man-machine interfaces of manned spacecraft in order to determine possible trends in their development for information support of crews of lunar expeditions in manual modes of spacecraft operation in conditions of limited opportunities for operational interaction with a groundbased fl ight control center. Prospects and trends of this kind are especially important to be known and taken into account at the stage of the preliminary design of the considered human-machine interfaces.
The article describes the factors of a long-term space flight associated with the risk of ocular pathology, including the established risk of space neuroocular syndrome (SANS). The mechanisms of intraocular hydrodynamic disturbance and their potential role in the development of SANS are considered. The results of the studies concerning the hydrodynamics of the eye in the conditions of simulated microgravity are presented.
To develop a strategy for building the Union State of Russia and Belarus’ better future, it is necessary to understand the mechanisms and identify the main causes that govern the dynamics of this complex and specifi c social system. As the main factor determining the social dynamics of a given civilization cluster, we consider the competition of two basic sociotypes. They are conditionally designated as a molecular man and a space man. A molecular person is a consumer whose social behavior is based on the power of the selfi sh gene and consumer society’s ideals. A space person is passionate, driven by the creative imperative of cognition and synthesis of culture. In our opinion, it is this fundamental confl ict that forms the social dynamics of the civilization cluster of the Union State. The scenario of its future development will depend on the resolution of this confl ict. In order to better understand this process, we have developed a cellular-automate computer model of competition between the two sociotypes in the framework of a unifi ed social system. This computer model can be considered as a simplifi ed cognitive proto-construct of the social system dynamics. By examining it, one can transfer the properties and features of its behavior to an unknown object under study - a society.
The creation of new generations of products in the aerospace industry is possible by applying a fundamentally new method of designing and manufacturing solid metal multilayer monocoque. A new additive manufacturing technology based on Russian patents is proposed.
Private sector involvement in the International Space Station (ISS) is becoming increasingly important as commercial organisations provide services and hardware to enhance the orbital operations of the Space Station which, in November 2020, marked two decades of continuous occupation. During the first Asgardia Space Science & Investment Conference, held in Germany in October 2019, a project to add a new commercially procured docking module to the ISS was announced as a key step to expanding the permanent human presence in low Earth orbit. Dr Igor Ashurbeyli, General Designer, provides a technical overview of the project and the industrial partnership arranged to deliver it.
In connection with the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's space flight, a brief interdisciplinary analysis concerning the influence of the first human space flight on the development of Russia and the humanity is made. Scientific, technological, organizational and managerial, sociopolitical, socio-cultural, environmental, and futurological aspects are presented. The main conclusions are drawn.
C-band military radars cause interferences to Sentinel-1 SAR satellite when it passes over their application area. Their interfering signals produce visible X marks in SAR satellite imagery. The article deals with new signal processing technique, first introduced by Israeli researcher, based on using these marks to detect and geolocate corresponding radars.
Asgardia’s project for a new module to expand Space Station