Now the spacecraft Soyuz is the only means of transporting crews to the ISS. It is also the only Russian manned spacecraft and one of the two existing manned vehicles in the world. As you know, the Chinese are very actively developing its programme "Shenzhou": built within the ship is, in fact, a Chinese version of "Union". Americans have their own manned space vehicles do not yet have: the space Shuttle made the last run in 2011. Now, US astronauts fly on Russian ships. The Europeans and the Japanese dream to create a full ship on the basis of the space of "trucks", but whether to do it — is unknown. Such budgets like NASA space agencies can only dream of, and current experience who would not say, much less than that of overseas partners.

19-09-2018 admin 158 0

Earlier we talked about the most powerful Japanese supercomputer for research in nuclear physics. Now in Japan exaflops create a supercomputer Post-K — the Japanese will be one of the first to start up the machine with a computational capacity.

30-08-2018 admin 230 0

What is life? Throughout the greater part of the 20th century this question was not were of great concern to biologists. Life is a term for poets, not scientists, believed synthetic biologist Andrew Ellington in 2008, who began his career with the study of how life began. Despite the words of Ellington, related research of the origin of life and astrobiology renewed focus on the value of life. To recognize another form that life could take four billion years ago, or form that she could take on other planets, scientists need to understand what essentially makes something alive.

27-08-2018 admin 213 0

"Big brother is watching you" – write some English-language media about the new social credit system in China. Others liken it to "Black mirror" or called "creepy". But Chinese media and social networks, the attitude is quite different. The official media claim that it promotes "social harmonization", and users are more focused on profits than on perceived threat.

14-07-2018 admin 532 0

Roscosmos plans to close the production of the rocket “proton”. The most competitive and the most profitable in the foreign market, civil product, has earned over twenty years to $10 billion (4 the annual budget of Roskosmos) is closed in the context of the "financial recovery Center. Khrunichev". Proton closes to make way rocket “Angara” — clean, but uncompetitive on the world market the rocket.

29-06-2018 admin 487 0