Russia has quietly taken a bold step toward solving one of human spaceflight’s oldest problems, securing a patent for a modular spacecraft that spins to create artificial gravity for crews on long ...

According to the patent, habitable modules would rotate around a central axis to simulate gravity for crew by producing an outward-pushing centrifugal force. When you purchase through links on our ...

Engineers at Russia’s Energia Space Rocket Corporation, part of the state-run space agency Roscosmos, have proposed a new answer. According to a patent obtained by the Russian news agency TASS, the ...