Firefly - the first electric helicopter from Sikorsky
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Announced for the first time about a week ago, a helicopter Sikorsky Firefly (Firefly), which uses electricity to move through the air, July 26, was shown at the annual aviaforume AirVenture in Oshkosh (Oshkosh), Wisconsin. The implementation has been around in the air the idea of creating an electric helicopter was made possible by improved technology of batteries - the last time the batteries become lighter and more powerful at the same time.
Helicopter Sikorsky Firefly is based on the model S-300C, the first production models of which appeared in 1961. Dvuhsotsilnaya electric propulsion system mounted on the frame time-tested model of Hughes 269. Three
In short: a first book Planck complete coverage of the sky
On May 14, 2009, the Adriane rocket launched Herschel and Planck space. Intended for observation Mother Satellite Planck just completed its first full coverage of the sky. Online on the website of HFI Planck France we can see the daily status of the mission. (more...)
Began fueling space shuttle Atlantis
At the launch site at Cape Canaveral in Florida, began filling the shuttle Atlantis. This website reported NASA. Technicians began filling the shuttle external tank with liquid oxygen and hydrogen.
Ideas Competition to identify life in the Solar System
The NASA launched a call for ideas has received 28 proposals for missions or instruments that aim to explore every corner of Solar system to prove that life on earth is not a singularity.
Atlantis will make its latest launch to the ISS on May 14
Guidelines NASA appointed date of the last space shuttle Atlantis on mission May 14, 2010 godson is stated at the site of the American space agency. Shuttle with a crew of six people must start from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral at 12:20 local time (20:20 on Kiev).
April 27, 2010 held a successful launch rocket Kosmos-3M.
April 27, 2010 at 05. 2005 Moscow time from the launcher platform № № 1 132 public test the Presets launch site launch rocket Kosmos-3M production of Omsk on “Flight” - a branch of Federal State Unitary Enterprise “GKNPTs them. 2005 Moscow time from the launcher platform № № [...]
For the first time organic molecules found on alien world
Organic molecules have been detected - in the form of methane - a planet outside our Solar System for the first time. The giant planet is too close to its parent star that methane is a sign of life, but the detection offers hope to one day astronomers analyze the atmospheres of Earth-like worlds.
Is There Any Alternative To Thermal Protection?
Is there an alternative to thermal protection?
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How do we arranged shuttle heat shield, and could it be different?
During braking in the atmosphere temperature in the shock wave from the bow edge of the wing and vertical tail exceeding 10000 ° C, of course, most of the [...]
Lunar craters were huge batteries
The researchers found that the lunar craters may be
electrically charged ones. Article researchers appeared in the journal Journal
of Geophysical Research, and its summary leads edition Universe Today.
SAI will measure the speed with space technology
SAI continues to
show their new products that will help inspectors to catch violators
in 2010. A few days ago, "Komsomolskaya Pravda has already written
about superradare" Arena ", which is capable of transmitting
Created mobile device for the study of space objects
A prototype of a mobile robot, named Axel, was built by
specialists Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of NASA. According to the
creators, commercial samples of the research unit should be applied not only in
space but also on Earth , search and rescue operations.
"Axel expands our ability to explore remote objects (for example, deep craters
with steep [...]
European Space Agency supported the project unique spacecrafts
ESA has allocated 1 million euros, a British company Reaction
Engines to continue its work to create a system, the like of which has not been
in the history of technology.
Supertelescopes Herschel and Planck have gone into space
European telescope Herschel and Planck successfully launched
from Kourou on board the launch vehicle Ariane 5. Devices that cost Europe the
total amount of 1,9 billion euros, will bring much new information on the origin
and evolution of the universe and possibly find signs of the Multiverse and the
traces of events before the Big Bang.
In South Africa, will create a space agency
In 2009 in South Africa will have its own space agency, said
publication of The South African. The decree on this has already signed the
country’s president Kgalema Motlanthe (Kgalema Motlanthe). Creating agency
occurs as part of a 10-year state program of development of science and
education.
The flights of space tourists to the ISS will end in 2009
After 2009 the space tourists will no longer fly to the
International Space Station (ISS). In an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta said
the head of Federal Space Agency Anatoly Perminov. According to Perminov, this
is due to the fact that in 2009 it is planned to increase the size of the space
station crew to six people.
