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 will talk about planting InSight, hospitalized in Moscow and not only! Below the news you can find in a text format.
Russia is going to build a manned lunar base
Russia is going to build a manned lunar base. As reported by TASS, citing its sources, the Council of RAS on space supported the project. On Wednesday held a meeting with participation of the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin and President of RAS Alexander Sergeev, which also dealt with the General concept of the development and exploration of the moon. During the meeting the idea was proposed, built two observatories on the lunar surface.
One will be designed to study cosmic rays, the other is astronomy.
As it became known, the exploration of the moon Russia is planned in several stages, starting with the launch of automatic stations. After the flyby of the satellite will be sent a crew of Russian cosmonauts, and then begin implementation of the plan for the deployment of the Russian lunar infrastructure in the satellite.
To finalize the Russian lunar program is planned for spring 2019. This was announced by Deputy Chairman of the RAS Council on space, scientific Director of the space research Institute of RAS lion Green.
Cyber attack in Moscow
The open two days ago, the cable car from the observation platform on Sparrow hills and Luzhniki stadium committed cyber attack. The news Agency TASS with reference to the press service of the Moscow cable car reports that the incident took place on 28 November at 14:00.
The employees decided to suspend the movement, and then promptly dropped all the passengers at the destination stations to ensure their safety.
Cable car from the SC “Luzhniki” to the Sparrow hills with three stations “Vorob’evy Gory”, “New League”, “Luzhniki” was launched on November 26. Route length is 720 m, and travel time between stations is five minutes. Passengers can travel by two routes: great circle (“Sparrow hills” — the “New League” — “Luzhniki”) and small (“New League” — “Sparrow hills”). The lift can carry 1,600 passengers per hour. According to reports, the first day the cable car was used by about 4,000 people.
The first electric pickup
Michigan startup Rivian Automotive, founded by a native of Massachusetts Institute of technology Robert Joseph Stringem in 2009, presented at the motor show in Los Angeles the first electric pickup R1T. The car received four-wheel drive, four motor, one for each wheel, giving him up to 764 horsepower, and can reach a maximum speed of 201 kilometers per hour. Novelty can accelerate to “hundreds” in just 3 seconds.
Cruising range electric pickup truck varies from 370 to 640 kilometers. Everything will depend on the chosen configuration. In the sale will be offered options with a battery of 105, 135 and 180 kilowatt-hours. For example, the same sedan Tesla Model 3 in the maximum configuration capable of one battery to travel about 500 kilometers.
A unique design feature of the pick-up Rivian is a pass-through Luggage compartment has a volume of 350 liters. It is located between the cab and cargo platform. An additional trunk is located where normally is located the engine under the hood. His modest little volume – 330 litres. R1T load capacity is 800 pounds. In addition, the pickup can tow a trailer weighing up to 3500 pounds.
Production R1T will be on the former Mitsubishi Motors plant in Normal, Illinois.
InSight came
Official page of the InSight mission to the NASA website reports that stranded on the Red planet a new research module has transmitted a message to Earth about the successful opening of its solar panels and began collecting energy. The signal from the module to the Ground relayed orbiting spacecraft NASA’s Mars Odyssey. Also have the first full picture of the surface of Mars, which was obtained using a camera mounted on Board the InSight.
The diameter of each of the two solar panels InSight is 2.2 meters. When disclosing the size of the device becomes similar to a large car. Mars receives less sunlight than Earth because it is much further. However, the lander will miss it. Its panel is able to generate 600-700 watts of power per day, which would be sufficient to power the drill, and many other scientific instruments installed on Board. Even in the case of coating the solar panels with dust (in Martian conditions, a frequent occurrence), they can still secure the apparatus at least 200-300 watts of power.
The device uses the same solar panels that were used at the other lander NASA – Phoenix. But since the InSight is larger, the engineers have equipped it with a larger and structurally reinforced panels. According to calculations of the mission team, due to such changes, InSight will be able to work on the surface of the red planet full Martian year (two earth).
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