Prospects of Military Space Industry
... instructed Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin to inspect the country’s space agency Roscosmos. Alexei Fenenko: The Moon Was Shining, The Stars Were Bright… These misfortunes served as a contrasting background for the successes of the newcomers to space. China performed a manned flight and launched a Moon surface probe. India orbited a constellation of polar satellites and launched a space probe of its own. The ESA created small satellites to map the surfaces of the Moon, Mars, and Venus. All these, however, were replications of the Soviet and U.S. achievements of the ...