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...
В Германии есть непереводимое выражение auf die Tischplatte klopfen: это когда немцы в знак одобрения чего-то стучат костяшками пальцев по столу. Так поступают и студенты на лекциях, и депутаты парламента. И именно таким образом поступили депутаты Ландтага...
There was a distinct feeling of déjà vu at the second InSpace forum held in Moscow on Friday, where one year after the original event , the main players in Russia’s space industry pondered the same existential questions that had dominated...
Екатерина Котенко-Ленгольд, вице-президент компании Astro Digital, говорит, что всегда мечтала участвовать в чем-то большом. На «Открытых инновациях» в Сколково Екатерина выступила на пленарной сессии вместе с главными звездами форума – вице...
Dr. Rupert Gerzer came to work at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology ( Skoltech ) one year ago as an associate director of the research university’s Space Center, but as a qualified medical doctor, he does not hide the fact that his heart...
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...
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...
Nineteen years after he went into space, Dr. Reinhold Ewald still can’t eat broccoli. “It was the most mineral-rich vegetable available in space, and I had to eat tons of it,” the German astronaut recalled with laughter as he gave a lecture...
The Moon Village – a permanent lunar base station – should be a truly international affair, and Russian villagers are more than welcome, European Space Agency director general Johann-Dietrich Woerner told professors and students of the Skolkovo...
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...
Работа с данными спутников сегодня — удовольствие, доступное немногим. При традиционном ценообразовании стоимость одной сцены съемок со спутника может доходить до нескольких тысяч долларов. Средним и малым разработчикам полезных приложений такие данные...
Skoltech graduate Ekaterina Kotenko-Lengold has made a Skoltech history, as she was announced “the runner-up with the bold idea” in the Slush100 pitching competition, during the SLUSH conference in Helsinki, Finland. This is the biggest achievement...
«Россия и Бразилия совместными усилиями могут создавать инновационные продукты для всего мира. Вместе мы многого сможем достичь, если будем ставить перед собой очень смелые и очень амбициозные задачи», - заявил в интервью Sk.ru министр науки, технологий...
Improvements in this version of Startup Village: Record crowds, new setting, creative catering. Like the leading smartphone apps, Startup Village is constantly evolving. The third edition of Russia and Eastern Europe’s biggest startup event is no...
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...
Skolkovo’s Scientific Advisory Council ended a whirlwind tour of American educational institutions this week by holding its quarterly meeting at Stanford University, where the prospects for Russian science, education and business came under scrutiny....
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...
Imagine a future in which all things launched into space – from the tiniest nano-satellites to hulking multi-modular planet probes – could communicate with one other. One in which mankind could harness the collaborative potential of thousands...