Initially unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were created for military purposes, gradually the development moved to the research sphere, and after that drones became available to a wide range of civilian amateurs and professionals. I write professionally about drones, and today…
Today about 50% of Russian and 50-60% of the world’s deposits belong to deposits that are hard to produce reserves from. Scientists of Perm Polytechnic and Curtin University (Perth, Australia) have developed a technology to assess the potential of oil…
Solar Orbiter is an unmanned solar exploration spacecraft developed by ESA with the participation of NASA. It is the first mission of the Cosmic Vision midrange program. ESA and NASA have published a series of images and recordings made by…
The Glenn Research Center has received a grant from NASA to develop the A Titan Sample Return Using In-Situ Propellants mission project. Its goal is to return Titan soil samples using local resources. Titan is one of the most interesting…
Jakarta is one of the fastest growing cities on Earth. While in 1930 it was home to half a million people, by 2020 this figure had increased 20-fold, exceeding 10 million people. When agglomeration is taken into account, the population…
Scientists of Novosibirsk State Technical University NETI together with Reshetnyov Information Satellite Systems JSC developed and patented electric energy converter for power supply systems of aerospace vehicles, allowing to reduce the weight of the power supply system, thereby increasing the…
James Webb Telescope (James Webb Space Telescope) has become one step closer to space. Experts NASA and the company Northrop Grumman has successfully completed the final test to open the main mirror of the device, during which it was transferred…
SpaceX has submitted a plan to the FCC for the first orbital test of its new Starship prototype spacecraft. The test date is unknown at the moment, but company officials have repeatedly said they plan to test it this year.…
On May 15, the landing platform of China’s Tianwen-1 mission made a successful landing on Mars. It delivered the Mars rover Zhuzhong to the surface of the Red Planet. Thus, China became the third country (after the USSR and the…
This photo was taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on April 9. On that day it made its final flyby of the asteroid Bennu (101955 Bennu). The purpose of the visit was to map the surface of the small body and…