Last week, NASA engineers opened the lid of the TAGSAM capsule, in which samples of the asteroid Bennu were delivered to Earth, and now a high-quality photo showing soil samples has appeared on the website of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The image is so good that you...
Chinese scientists have learned to turn ordinary coal into food protein. It is stated that they plan to use it as food for animals, not people, at least at the first stage. Now the main goal of development is to provide livestock with feed with a high content of vegetable...
Nationstar Aerospace Executive Vice President Dr. Zhao Hongjie, speaking on Chinese TV, announced that China has implemented ultra-high-speed communications in outer space. “For example, it takes us less than 1 second to complete the transfer of a 1 GB movie from Earth to the Chinese space station“said Zhao Hongjie. He...
While NASA is just preparing to present its prototype Stirling engine (it is supposed to be used as part of the mission to Titan and Enceladus), the Chinese have already tested such a power plant. The length of the device was 2 m, width – 63 cm. A thermoacoustic Stirling...
The Chinese Earth Remote Sensing (ERS) program, like many other space programs, is closed, but that will soon change. At the FengYun series weather satellite user conference, the PRC Weather Agency and the PRC Space Agency announced the creation of an international portal for access to remote sensing data. It...
President of the Kurchatov Institute Mikhail Kovalchuk announced that the research center is creating a neuromorphic computer – a computing machine capable of working in much the same way as the brain works. In the future, such a computer could surpass artificial intelligence. Image generated by Midjourney“You don’t actually reproduce...
The world’s most powerful laser installation will appear in the Oxfordshire research center in the UK. $103 million has already been allocated for its construction. The UK Research and Innovation Agency says the Vulcan 20-20 laser will be “a billion times brighter than the brightest sunlight in the Sahara Desert”....
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has announced that the equipment for the Venus mission, planned for 2024, has already been developed. Venus. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech“We have many missions at the conceptual stage. The mission to Venus is already configured. Payloads have already been developed for it“said ISRO chief Sridhara Somnath....
Scientists at CERN conducted an experiment that finally proved that antimatter reacts to gravity in the same way as ordinary matter. image created by the DALL-E neural network in BingDespite the fact that this is quite logical, since antimatter differs from ordinary matter mainly only in its electric charge (and...
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) reported that attempts to contact the Pragyan rover and Vikram lander were unsuccessful. Lander Vikram. Photo: ISRO“Efforts have been made to communicate with the Vikram lander and the Pragyan rover to ascertain their awakening status. At the moment, no signals have been received from...
The Indian lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 transmitted the first scientific data, and they can be called a mini-sensation: the temperature of the moon’s surface turned out to be noticeably higher than expected. Photo: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University“ChaSTE (Chandra Surface Thermophysical Experiment) creates a temperature profile of the top layer of regolith around...
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) posted on Twitter a video of the Pragyan rover landing on the moon. A short video shows how the Pragyan slides down the ramp of the Vikram lander to the surface of the moon. The Indian spacecraft will study the lunar surface using an...
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has announced that the Pragyan lunar rover, which is part of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, is already traveling on the moon. “Lunokhod [миссии] Chandrayaan 3 rolls off lander and India walks on the moon,” ISRO tweeted. Also published the first photo taken by the lunar...
China launched the world’s first high-orbit synthetic aperture radar satellite using a Long March-3B rocket. “China launched L-SAR4 01 satellite at 01:26 Beijing time [20:26 субботы по московскому времени] launch vehicle Long March-3B from the Xichang cosmodrome in Sichuan province in the southwest of China”, the China National Space Administration...
NASA has released a test video of advanced SRM1 and SRM2 solid propellant engines. The tests were carried out back in the spring: SRM2 was tested on March 29 at the Northrop Grumman base in Elkton, Maryland (there, by the way, a plant for mass production of engines for hypersonic...
The Epsilon S booster being developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) exploded during engine tests today. The explosion occurred approximately 55 seconds after launch, and no one was hurt during the incident. Epsilon S in 2024 should replace the Epsilon launch vehicle, which has been in use since...