A Skoltech -led team of international scientists has developed a mathematical model that makes sense of one of the great mysteries that have long perplexed researchers of Saturn’s rings, and published the results of the research in the scientific journal...
The occasions when it’s justifiable to trot out the well-worn opening lines of Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” (“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”) are few and far between, but their...
Two Skolkovo startups made international headlines earlier this year when they announced that they were working together on a 3D printer for the International Space Station that would be able to print satellites directly in space. Several months later, the...
A team of scientists led by Artem Oganov, a professor at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ), has used computer modelling to describe what materials make up the interiors of Uranus and Neptune, as well as their icy satellites. ...
A new English-language journal titled REACH – Reviews in Human Space Exploration was launched at the end of last month with Rupert Gerzer, a professor at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology , as its editor-in-chief. Professor Rupert...
Finding new ways of commercially exploiting satellites already in orbit, while creating economic value in the process: this is the goal of the research being carried out by Alessandro Golkar, Interim Director of the Space Center and Associate Professor at the...
An international team of students and graduates from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) will present its project for a two-person flyby past Mars at the Gemini Mars Design Competition in Washington D.C. in September after it was selected...
Ученые из Сколтеха, МФТИ и институтов РАН поделились с Sk.ru подробностями исследования древнего битума из античной амфоры, найденной на Таманском полуострове. Изучение химических трансформаций, которые в течение тысячелетий происходили с битумом, имеет не...
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) and the German Aerospace Center ( DLR ) have signed a research cooperation agreement that will allow Skoltech to take part in real space experiments. Hansjörg Dittus (left) and Rupert...
A 3D printer for use in space is the end goal of a joint project between two residents of the Skolkovo Foundation – the companies Sputnix and Anisoprint – and Moscow Polytechnic University. Fyodor Antonov, director of Anisoprint., a resident...
Уже больше года профессором практики космического центра Сколтеха является Сергей Крикалев. На днях он прочел студентам лекцию « Жизнь и работа в космосе». Sk.ru расспросил известного космонавта, обладателя продержавшегося 10 лет рекорда по суммарной...
The Skolkovo Foundation is preparing to expand beyond planet Earth this autumn, when its subsidiary, the Skolkovo Orbital Launch Centre (SOLC), is set to send satellites into space. “Our first launches are planned for October this year,” said...
Осенью 1859 года на Землю обрушилось мощное «солнечное цунами» - было зафиксировано сильнейшее за всю историю наблюдений нарушение магнитного поля планеты. Полярное сияние тогда было заметно даже в Гаване. Телеграфные аппараты внезапно остановились...
Perhaps not so many people know about the pioneering and leading roles that Italy has played over the last sixty years in the exploration and exploitation of space, writes Skoltech's Assistant Professor Alessandro Golkar in a piece, contributed to Sk.ru...
Инноград Сколково мог бы стать пилотной зоной для испытания беспилотников и в этом смысле – прообразом города будущего. Фонд «Сколково» предлагает нефтяной индустрии концепцию создания испытательных полигонов для инновационных технологий в...
Президент Сколтеха, профессор аэронавтики, астронавтики и инженерных систем MIT Эдвард Кроули специально для Sk.ru написал колонку, в которой поделился своим видением перспективных направлений космического предпринимательства Коммерческая деятельность в...
A Skoltech team led by assistant professor Alessandro Golkar is analyzing the results yielded by four research balloons launched to the edge of space. The view from a Skoltech research balloon. Photograph: skoltech.ru The helium balloons carried...
Deep in the Russian provinces on Tuesday morning, a team of Russian students launched four helium balloons into the stratosphere with scientific experiments designed to advance our understanding of how composite materials, new batteries and other technology...