Every Monday in the new issue of “News of high technologies” we summarize the results of the last week, talking about some of the most important events, the key discoveries and inventions. Today we talk about “Yandex.Phone”, the rocket, Rocket Lab, and more! Below the news you can find in a text format.
“Yandex.The phone” will be shown tomorrow
The company “Yandex” is known not only as a developer of Russia’s largest search engine, but also as the Creator of the taxi service and the author of neural networks to improve video quality. In 2018, she took a step in the field of electronics, in may was presented the “smart” column Yandex.The station is equipped with voice assistant Alice. The company is not going to stop — on Monday, November 19, will be a presentation of the first flagship smartphone under the name “Yandex.Phone.”
Information about the date of the announcement said the “Izvestia”, citing sources familiar with the plans of the founders of the Russian search engine. The company is in talks with retailers, and is currently known that the novelty will be available in “Eldorado” “M. Video” and mobile phone “Beeline”. The existence of an agreement suggests that the company either failed to set the minimum possible cost of the device, or it is agreed in the amount of high margin.
The Network already has a photo of the box smartphone with the description of the main technical characteristics of the smartphone — photo published analyst of Mobile Research Group Eldar Murtazin. Yandex.The phone will get the 5.65-inch Full HD+ display with an aspect ratio of 18:9. The ratio of operational and main memory will be 4/64 GB and the chipset will have eight cores. The NFC module will allow you to make contactless payments and assistant Alice will execute the voice command.
No gasoline
After 2030 in Israel, you can no longer buy a car that runs on fuel the fuel. About it reports Reuters with reference to Minister of energy of the country. All vehicles with internal combustion engines will be replaced by electric cars and vehicles running on natural gas. According to the Minister, Yuval Steinitz, the challenge is to set “critical mass” of cars, which will allow local industry to abandon gasoline and diesel engines and go to clean forms of transport.
The Minister also noted that “the government intends to encourage the transition to electric vehicles, including through reduction of taxation of this form of transport practically to zero.” Thus electric cars will be significantly cheaper than conventional running on combustible fuels.
Waiver from the internal combustion engine and the transition to electric vehicles is part of a larger plan of Israel to completely abandon the use of gasoline, diesel, and coal. In recent years the country has discovered huge reserves of natural gas, so Israel has begun to modernize its power plants under new fuel.
Rogozin shared plans
The head of “Roskosmos” Dmitry Rogozin has shared on his Twitter plans for the next ten years. It became known that the operation of the carrier rocket “Soyuz-FG” will be discontinued at the end of 2019. Manned spacecraft “Soyuz MS” will be launched from Baikonur January 2020 on the rocket “Soyuz 2.1.a”. Stopping the use of “Soyuz-FG” almost certainly due to the obsolescence of the model and that 11 Oct accident of the carrier rocket of this type is due to abnormal separation of the first and second stages of the rocket.
Fortunately, in accident nobody suffered: cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin and astronaut Nick Hague, successfully landed in the capsule.
“Soyuz-FG”, being a modification of “Soyuz-U”, stood on the exploitation of “Roscosmos” for almost twenty years: in the first flight of the rocket went in may 2001. In the summer of 2018, it became known that the RCC “Progress” plans to cease production of “Soyuz-FG” due to the fact that the production of rockets are used by Ukrainian components.
Rocket Lab completed its first successful commercial launch
But the us manufacturer of aerospace Rocket Lab completed its first successful commercial launch on Saturday, sending into orbit seven spacecraft, including six tiny satellites and a demonstrator of sail, on Board the relatively small Electron rocket, which is designed primarily for small animals and cube-Sats. Missile cost 5.7 million dollars, was launched from complex Rocket Lab in New Zealand, with nine of its main engines operating on kerosene.
A two-stage rocket with a height of over 17 meters activated his nine kerosene engines and Rutherford sped away from Launch Complex 1, private spaceport Rocket Lab on the Peninsula Mahia.
Two and a half minutes of work the first stage of the Electron along the arc rushed in the direction of the South of the Peninsula, after the first stage separated and fell, and the second with a single engine “Rutherford” (which was printed on a 3D printer) — brought a valuable cargo into orbit.
As noted by CNBC, the Electron rocket designed to transport spacecraft the size of a refrigerator, realizing this is much faster than competitors like SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets. However, the Falcon 9 and costs much more.
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