Latvia develops fuel pump for lunar orbital base ahead of Lithuania and Estonia
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The President of the Latvian Space Industry Association, Pauls Irbins, said that the space industry has developed a lot in recent years in the country. “And even now Latvia is ahead of Estonia and Lithuania in this matter,” he noted with pride.
One of the Latvian enterprises, according to him, is developing new technologies for an orbital base on the Moon. “To be more precise, a fuel pump for a lunar orbital base,” said the president of the association. Another company, according to Irbins, is developing a “specific development for the Hera mission.” Within its framework, “a huge spacecraft will go to study asteroids.”
Meanwhile, Latvia’s historical contribution to space exploration is indisputable. So, the father of Soviet rocket science, Friedrich Zander, was from Riga. Mstislav Keldysh, one of the ideologists of the Soviet space program, was also born in this city. Also from the Latvian SSR are three cosmonauts – Anatoly Solovyov, Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Artemyev. All of them now live in the Russian Federation.
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