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experienced indians. and japan criticizes the operator of the crippled fukushima power plant which is leaking radioactive water the company said to have ignored warnings about the danger of a tsunami would. be bought with more developments more news for you in this than thirty minutes from now here in r.t. in the meantime to the space race really die with the cold war up next technology update examines a rebirth in science and engineering that's reaching for the stars. hello and welcome to technology update april twelfth two thousand and eleven marks the fiftieth anniversary of an incredible achievement to put soviet science and innovation not just on top of the world but beyond this world altogether. it was

that day in one nine hundred sixty one that saw the unprecedented launch of manned into orbit the soviet cousin not due to go out and making history aboard of us talk spacecraft going in became a hero and the whole world caught space fever but behind the scenes the technology that made man flight possible had been a top priority for over a decade with both peaceful and military objectives siggy could go along with talented specialists like but he should have told masterminded the soviet rocket program that emerged after the second world war as with their rivals in the us this soviets first developed rockets based on the german v. two that it was known as the r one first tested in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight soviet engineers work simultaneously on original designs that would create new rockets in quick succession within a decade to first of the now famous r seven family would be ready to launch sputnik . yeah. for me.

with all its details especially the control system and its modifications was like oh yeah. well the fact i would say they need love. we will do all in love with the rocket and progressed incredibly quickly. but the first rockets were designed to manufactured within two years. thanks to the efforts of its builders that with the design turned out to be so good. even today only rockets based only original construction of the school. are used for russia. on the same lines that started turning out early model back in the late one nine hundred fifty s. today's most reliable use launchers are produced with unparalleled precision construction bureau progress in the russian city of somalia continues to rely on

the design pioneered by token their colleagues tapping the rockets to fit the changing needs of the russian space program as well as those of international clients. like. the rocket seems to get younger every year to its components. we've changed the control system in the tel metric system. and upgraded the engine by itself from year to year the rockets overall functionality is increasing. in more than a half century of history seven has had many faces and many firsts it was the first i.c.b.m. the first satellite carrier the first to put humans in space and in modifications today is still the only launcher ever used to put soviet or russian cosmonauts into orbit. those aren't enough distinctions for the developers of tomorrow's best

rockets progresses actively evolving new designs to meet new challenges in the aerospace industry and it's not just the russian spacecraft set to shoot skyward on progress built site a recent breakthrough in international cooperation has been keeping them busy since the european space agency chose a new generation rocket noticed this i used to ask for a soon to be opened new package at its south american space complex in french. position a wooden. enough were two of our rockets are currently sation of the going on a space center crew though the infrastructure was created and developed are complex . missiles past the test security and it's not that i'm booked on the move up but in a think we should this launch pad is functional and in a full it will take a rocket in the mobile service tower for a draw when you see just what i know that we men were counting down to list. for russian space engineers it's a new mission on

a new con tropico french guyana is a far cry from the traditional russian launching ground on the cosmic step and they've been working with european partners for the better part of a decade to ensure the site is ready to launch pad will be unique insight uses storied history to first incorporate a mobile service tower and the first to install the rockets payload in vertical instead of horizontal position. the launch melt will also be fixed instead of rotating so the rocket itself has been designed as the first in our seven family capable of roll maneuvers for proper post launch positioning with first liftoff slated for august or september of this year the caruso use center will give european satellite launch capacity a much needed boost and will be yet another in a long list of high points produced by russia's progress. the technological level in capacity of this plant and several other high tech factories

that work among other things with cryogenics equipment will allow us to develop a new launcher under the name use. it will be used at russia's new launch pad the cosmodrome. both russia many of the world watches have cared for. the privilege crossing russia over one hundred fifty million dollars a year. one particle should get this program which carries. the soviet and russian space programs have blasted off from several sites spread across the country's vast territory but with the real heavy lifter now left outside russia's borders future hopes are being pinned on the plan cosmodrome russian for east. could be hosting launches by twenty six teams and it's appealing for

more reasons than brant independence from russia's neighbors building from the ground up lets the site be fully outfitted in twenty first century technology proximity to the pacific ocean is a plus both for transporting equipment to the base and for homeless descent of rocket boosters expended with each launch russian prime minister vladimir putin made his way to the future in the region of russia's far east symbolic groundbreaking in august of two thousand and ten. russia's stages as a leading space. will improve a country's access to space as will be capable of launching all types of ships into orbit this includes. petitions to the moon and. it's central to these plans may have been designed to progress in some but it will lift off on the power of engines built by another key player in russia's aerospace industry moscow based in much. following and.

we've chosen the engine. that we've developed for sale to american. the v one eighty two the store. we've made some adjustments to adapt it to the rockets that will fly from the store. the primary design elements will be changed a lot of the technical adjustments aimed at improving the. engines will be made. back in the late soviet period in a mushroom the makers of the r d one seventy the most powerful liquid fuel rocket engine in history in the ninety's they started work on a new model they cut down to two combustion chambers instead of four and found a powerful partner in the us aerospace giant lockheed martin now enjoying with boeing in a joint venture called united launch alliance the americans used to already won eighty as the first stage engine on their workhorse applets five rocket previous

editions of the atlas launchers used three engines in place of the one powerful in . the already won eighty produces nearly a million pounds force of thrust into thrust to weight ratio more than fifteen times that of the engines used to fly just supersonic concorde jet since the already won eighty first gave the atlas five a lift back in two thousand and two there's been two dozen successful launches for american military commercial and space equipment but not all the hardware on board the atlas five has been american in the summer of two thousand and nine an unprecedented move mapping mission was launched with the help of russian ingenuity in february two thousand and eleven the kremlin rolled out the red carpet to recognize the innovative work of young space research institute scientists maxime and until one son in whose lunar exploration neutron detector linda for sure is playing a key role in nasa's lunar reconnaissance orbiter fact finding mission. based

business who were the main economy shows the high spatial resolution seen all the previous missions measured hydrogen levels with a spatial resolution of one hundred fifty coleman says they had a spot on the moon one hundred fifty kilometers in diameter zero divisors narrows that down to a ten kilometer spot you can send a man there to dig a shovel and it will probably find something that. was a political speech something like the. touch of discovery. be no small matter since interest in the movie's resources has created a buzz beyond space science circles so what role does the new trying to take to play. the way our device works is quite simple from the point of view of physics where you introduce this neutrons emitted from the moon when you transit form to babson meters under the ground due to cosmic rays they lose their kinetic charge once they reach the surface rubbing against surface

matter. if there is a lot of hydrogen and that. will be slowed down more efficiently device can dredge the vessel. we were selected following an open and fair competition assured of what the laboratory of los alamos but also took part in the contest but turned out to be better we've suggested narrowing down the visible area by using a passive color meaning based on boron town. in all the lunar reconnaissance orbiter or l r o consists of six instruments intended to produce the most detailed analysis of the lunar environment today this includes not just high resolution imaging of the moon's terrain but also tests for the potential biological impact of radiation from cosmic rays and ultraviolet mapping

of the moon surface to detect possible deposits of water ice in cold traps and topographical studies that help survey for future landing sites and hazards the impact of data is already being felt. the program was recalibrated based on knowledge of voices indications i knew for sure that they changed the plan landing location and i'm confident that when the european space agency are discussing their programs. that into. they will take into account. after a virtual decades long dead spell the international space community is again turning its attention to our nearest neighbor with lunar exploration projects and the plans of space programs the world over but even before these are set to bear fruit we'll be getting data back from even further afield as mankind reaches towards the red planet and its satellites almost grew into so much hype sample

return mission to mars is mysterious. it's a russian led project. chinese made. from the longstanding attraction. interest thanks to theories it's actually an asteroid captured by mars as gravity a living laboratory. space. the solar system part of. the course. is. first be doing if you use that it. is. updated since its first planned launch in two thousand and nine group is bigger and better in addition to the transport and return vessels as well as soil sampling equipment the complex now carries the chinese martian orbiter as well as an

additional expendable fuel tank to propel the extra weight. meticulous testing is underway at the mosque l. space research institute to assure the functionality of each focus group component . the orbital trajectory of mars and its moons reaches its closest point to earth just once every twenty six months. any other time is both more complicated and more costly after missing the first launch window due to delays scientists understand time is of the essence. the unfamiliar environment of the martian moon surface means every single piece of the more than twenty scientific instruments that make up the probe has high standards to meet and exceed. what the. program unlike lunar programs fear the task was undoubtedly complicated by the need to collect samples under tricky conditions gravity is virtually absent on phobos.

well those aren't conditions easily recreated here on earth teams at the space research institute have gone to great links to prepare the high precision sampler that's at the heart of the focus mission a computerized full scale model of the robotic arm and sampling device was constructed for that purpose as these samples could hold the secret to his origin millimeter. is the chief the sampling device achieves that just five watts of energy and under two hundred grams of mass in addition to testing the hardware simply the model has been helpful in honing the specially designed software that will guide the real focus from soil samples or on the mission. not only to probe itself but the adjoining optical devices including cameras and microscopes even the tests. from colleagues in geochemistry to be the closest possible simulation of the mars moon. there's every reason to be confident that apparatus will execute the

missions main objective. to arrives in orbit around mars roughly ten month journey the chinese orbiter will split off after orbiting the red planet. spacecraft will make its landing on the surface of. there will take it samples and send them back to earth. two thousand and fourteen is unprecedented research a testament to the long term long range capability of state space programs. no matter how much i work on my designs there's little chance of them leaving my room let alone leaving the earth's atmosphere but increasingly independent initiative and private funds are becoming legitimate players in this space industry if. a model made by a private russian company. no might not be an analog for the moons terrain but the models makers have lunar ambitions and perhaps just the right incentive. to do that

this in september two thousand and seven the company google and the x. prize foundation and the most ambitious contest in history they wanted to send the first of a private lunar robot to the moon the google x. prize we started coming together as a team there on the same time and when we found out about the come petition we saw that forming an initiative group that was served as the core of the team. then we made it official with the competition's sole representative from russia. but the lunar x. prize entrants will not be alone in russian history as the. program offers a formidable foundation. surfaces insight. unit one for. team still in the cold has an important ally this dramatization from the seventies features real life pilot gets a slow. movement. forward to. the

future a little decreasing beautiful that has made contact with the moon. three devaluating surroundings. eight meters to the right a rocky mountain over fifty centimeters high. solution. two meters back so you can turn sixty degrees to the right three the rover is moving. today don't get his team with still enough to bring sylvia expertise to bear on a twenty first century project. everything is new. no computer no it's all computerized. over was essentially. seven hundred fifty six kilograms.

he weighs five to six kilograms. look at the size of. over forty centimeters this was for me. it was much larger significantly. the subject of serious scientific debate and extensive testing. in the one nine hundred sixty s. . perhaps the most important question was how exactly. many of the same construction questions and. campaign.

overlap between form and function. they've narrowed the field to most attractive mobility options. but its advantages are becoming clear. as a result. you need to make. to make design functional. instance with expanded shapes which can save us fifty percent of the mass by redistributing pressure in. just a plastic toy. it is actually quite.

extreme conditions. and if we manage to make it. we will be had a. number of the expense of the engineering. team . with funds to raise and a second prototype to fabricate a company with a total of twenty nine teams from seventeen countries in the race to put on the moon surface and unique is google's twenty five million maybe the lunar x. prize is just one example of the expanding arena of private space entrepreneurship . and eileen country of eighty thousand people in the middle of the irish sea may not seem a likely player in the space exploration game usually dominated by world superpowers

but if you believe the hype the next giant leap for mankind might be coming from the isle of man it's a place best known for its beautiful landscapes tasty cheeses clean scallops and business friendly tax code generally means a focus on offshore banking but the arrival of two soviet made space stations owned by the company excalibur almaz in early two thousand and eleven showcase the island's expanding emphasis on space commerce. to be in the business of launching rockets. satellites. hi hi. manufacturing to. help facilitate the private sector. into the space industry through having. joined russian cosmonaut in excalibur almaz project consultant. on a visit to the island home of the former soviet station as they retool spacecraft

return to orbit they're banking on the tried and tested expertise already invested in their design and construction to stay a step ahead of space tourism competitors. because it's history's first multiple spacecraft of its. so this is a capsule. for use on a single flight mission for ensuring up to thirty launches. back in the mid one nine hundred sixty s. military launched a program to provide a million surveillance station in lower. consisting of a service module and the reusable reentry vehicle were to be launched on the heavy lifting proton rocket this station's flew under the names two three and five in the seventies and were fitted with advanced observation communication equipment even

modified artillery to protect against enemy satellites the original project was divided in later discontinued both to stations in the return capsules gained valuable flight testing. three or four people. every person would work in space. planning is the most suitable. scientists. tourists to work in a comfortable environment. everyone will have their own. part of the complex to fly with excalibur almaz taking up to three passengers and they'll be sent on

a trajectory to station the crew can then pass through the adapter into their temporary. we should see more spacious still weightless visitors floating between floor and ceiling. cooperates with the u.s. and european space. by twenty thirty. flights with a service module by twenty four. combining the experience of seasoned russian space men and savvy american businessmen excalibur almaz is getting down to work on making the dream a reality after raising money and international interest on the isle of man they expect russia to be the logical launch partner by their calculations six capsule launches a year would be the magic number for making. station economically viable sooner than you might think with would be already in line half century and

a manned space flight are still finding. the vast expanse of our solar system now more than ever there's a chance to take it. and when you're finally comes enjoy the ride.

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