Mezhdunarodnaya kosmicheskaya stanciya nad Zemlei
18.04.2016 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Mezhdunarodnaya kosmicheskaya stanciya — samyi bol'shoi ob'ekt, kogda-libo postroennyi chelovekom v kosmose. Po razmeram stanciya slegka bol'she futbol'nogo polya, hotya lish' nebol'shaya chast' ee ob'ema sdelana iz zhilyh modulei. Stanciya nastol'ko velika, chto ee nevozmozhno bylo by zapustit' v kosmos s Zemli celikom, i ee vse eshe prodolzhayut stroit' po chastyam.

Elektrostaticheskaya sistema dlya bystrogo pereleta k geliopauze
16.04.2016 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya

Vy hoteli by sovershit' bystroe puteshestvie k granice Solnechnoi sistemy? Togda vam stoit obratit' vnimanie na Elektrostaticheskuyu sistemu dlya bystrogo pereleta k geliopauze (Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System – HERTS). Principy raboty sistemy seichas proveryayutsya. Predpolagaetsya, chto dlya poleta na 100 astronomicheskih edinic (15 milliardov kilometrov) potrebuetsya vsego ot 10 do 15 let.