RUSSIAN YOUNG SCIENTISTS WIN HEINLEIN PRIZE FOR INNOVATION PROJECT

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MOSCOW, July 21 (RIA Novosti) - A group of young Russian scientists has won the prize of the American Heinlein Prize Trust for innovation projects in commercial space activities. Out of the 20 works sent for the competition, the Russian-American expert commission has selected eleven projects in the field of space tourism, new transportation systems, use of space satellites for environmental monitoring.

"The best is the collective work of authors from the Tupolev University, based in Kazan, (federative republic of Tatarstan, Volga area) under the guidance of Alexei Melnichnov. It is on the use of deployed rotor systems to rescue wasted stages of carrier rockets," Academician Yuri Ryzhov told the press conference in Moscow.

The application of such technologies will ensure efficient rescue and reuse of heavy-class Proton rocket stages, he said.

Sergei Belavsky and Sergei Antonenko of the Khrunichev Space Center (Moscow) have presented for the competition a thoroughly thought-out project for the recovery of wasted rocket stages by Mi-26 helicopters. The proposal can be used for the promising Russian carrier rocket Angara and the American Delta 4 and Atlas 5 boosters.

Among the foremost works are electric rocket engines, technologies for environmental monitoring from orbit.

The project was initiated and sponsored by the American Robert and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust. They established it to encourage young talents in different countries seeking commercial space exploration.

The Russian competition is the pilot project of the Heinlein Prize Trust. It is going to hold such competitions in China and some European countries next year.

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