In an unidentified major European logistics enterprise where robots had been introduced with great effect to transport goods around the warehouse floor, the human workers, anxious they would lose their jobs, reportedly began kicking the robots over and then...
A Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle carrying two satellites made by Dauria Aerospace successfully lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 9.36 a.m. on Friday. The Soyuz launch vehicle being readied for takeoff at the Baikonur cosmodrome this...
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...
CosmoCourse , a private Russian space exploration enterprise, has become the first company to get approval from federal space corporation Roscosmos for its space tourism project. The company, one of a slew of up-and-coming space startups that have resident...
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...
The MAKS air show has proved to be a significant driver of business for the Skolkovo Foundation, which has overseen deals for several resident companies and announced the completion of construction of a Boeing pilot training facility at the Innovation Center...
Skolkovo’s flagship partners including Microsoft and Siemens have reiterated their commitment to the project, insisting political turbulence will not blow them off course. At the Hypercube this week the Skolkovo Foundation held its Industrial Advisory...
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....
The Skolkovo Foundation has agreed to issue a grant to a resident of its space and telecoms cluster to develop technology that could see airships take to the skies once more. Atlant, the R&D spinoff of Russia’s only airship constructor Avgur, has...