The first ever satellite mission launched from the UK ended in failure. A giant jet plane of the American company Virgin Orbit delivered a rocket from Newquay, Cornwall, to launch it high above the Atlantic Ocean, writes BBC News.
The Japanese company Roland, in honor of its own 50th anniversary, presented the concept of an electronic piano, which received the obvious name 50th Anniversary Concept Piano. The instrument is distinguished by many bold solutions: non-standard design, omnidirectional built-in acoustics, additional speakers installed on drones and the ability to broadcast a concert to the whole world.
These days, the world's largest technology exhibition Consumer Electronics Show (CES-2023) is taking place in Las Vegas. Over the years of its existence, it has become a venue for important technological premieres and presentations of major innovations, which then become topics of conversation for the coming year.
The Japanese company Sony is preparing a Star Sphere project, thanks to which anyone can take a photo of the Earth from space using remotely controlled orbiting camera satellites, Universe Magazine reports.
Scientific works of Turkmen scientists written in Russian are cited in the CIS more often than articles by other Russian-speaking researchers from the CIS countries. This indicates their weight, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes in an analytical article on the state of the Russian language in the CIS countries.
Russian scientists have discovered a new class of galaxies, substances in which presumably move at a speed exceeding the speed of light by tens to hundreds of times, violating the laws of physics, TASS reports.
Beijing University has unveiled plans to build the largest telescope in Asia to close the gap in astronomical development with Western countries, Space.com reports.
A team of international experts from Cambridge, Harvard, Washington Universities, as well as scientists from the University of Bar-Ilan and Haifa proved the advantage of women in cognitive empathy, that is, in the ability to represent and identify other people's thoughts and emotions, according to an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal.
Yandex, VK, Rostelecom and Sberbank plan to create a company that will develop a new mobile operating system (OS) based on Android platform, potentially able to replace Google Mobile Services, Kommersant reports.
The South Korean spacecraft KPLO (Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter), also called Danuri, went into space for the first time and successfully anchored in the orbit of the Moon, TASS reports with reference to the Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technologies of the Republic of Korea.
In 2023, Russia, India and the European Space Agency will launch missions to the Moon and deep space. This follows NASA's recent Artemis I mission, which orbited the Moon with the Orion spacecraft, which is intended to take humans to the Moon and Mars in the future. The BBC writes about this in its review of upcoming space launches.
The first in the CIS ultra-fast charging complex for electric vehicles and electric buses was opened in Minsk on Tuesday. Equipment, technologies and programs are developed by Belarusian specialists.
Schoolchildren and students participating in the national team of Turkmenistan won silver medals in the team event at the international competitions in informatics and robotics in Baku. Young engineers took second place, outstripping worthy and talented rivals from dozens of countries: Great Britain, Israel, Turkey, Norway, Sweden, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan,- the Azerbaijani press writes.
NASA engineers have begun to manufacture the first components of the space "asteroid hunter" NEO Surveyor, which will search for potentially dangerous asteroids. This is reported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on the official website.
NASA's InSight mission has ended after more than four years of traveling in space and exploring Mars. Over the years, the InSight probe has collected a lot of unique scientific data about the Red Planet, according to the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
