Electronics and optics news

Toshiba engineers managed to send quantum information over an optical fiber 600 kilometers long and set a new record. This is reported on the website of the Japanese corporation.

The working meeting was also attended by representatives of state research organizations, management and researchers of leading Russian universities and federal executive authorities.

U.S. sanctions could disrupt Russia's construction of a communications satellite for Angola. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a source in the rocket and space industry. The reason for the difficulties was the lack of a permit for the supply of American electronics from a European contractor.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the active actions of the United States and NATO member countries in cyberspace cause concern to Russia.

Russia does not consider cyberspace a war zone and opposes the militarization of outer space

President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is not waging a war in cyberspace and called the allegations about it unsubstantiated.

Russia does not intend to supply Iran with high-tech satellite systems, especially since Tehran itself is hardly ready for such cooperation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

What many experts from different fields call "intuition" and "professional flair", it will soon be possible to develop through simple training from scratch. This conclusion was reached by experts from the Research Laboratory for the Development of combat Capabilities of the US Army. They were interested in the project of researchers from Augusta University (USA), who developed a method for recognizing camouflaged objects.

In 2021, spending on Internet of Things (IoT) technologies in Europe will reach $ 202 billion and continue to grow at a double-digit rate until 2025. This forecast is given by IDC analysts.

The draft government resolution, which provides for the Ministry of Finance to be empowered to promote the demand for domestic radio-electronic products for civil purposes, software and hardware complexes (PAC) and software (software), to promote the use of mainly domestic radio-electronic products for civil purposes, PAC and software, as well as other powers to promote the development of demand for Russian radio-electronic products and software, was published for public discussion on Tuesday.

The wonderful material graphene has received a new very useful application — a group of engineers from the University of Cambridge upgraded with its help a classic computer hard drive. They used graphene as a replacement for the old carbon-based coating that protects the plates inside the disk. Only two layers of graphene were enough to reproduce the same performance characteristics, and increasing the coating thickness to four layers increased them many times.

SpaceX plans to provide Wi-Fi during flights in airplanes. The company is negotiating with several air carriers, the Izvestia TV channel reports. For its project, SpaceX will use Starlink satellites. The network of devices will provide high-speed Internet around the world. The satellites will be connected using a laser communication line — they will not depend on ground stations. Since 2018, SpaceX has launched about 1.8 thousand Starlink vehicles — there will be 12 thousand of them in total.

In early June, the United States delivered $ 14.9 million worth of 155-mm artillery ammunition to the Estonian Armed Forces, and $ 2.7 million worth of AN/TSQ – 288 mobile radars to the Estonian Navy to support the country's defense capabilities and increase situational awareness at sea.

Created by the American military-industrial corporation Northrop Grumman in the interests of the Air Force (Air Force) The US strategic stealth bomber B-21 Raider, called the" coolest "aircraft in the world, will be invulnerable to Russian anti-aircraft missile systems S-500 "Prometheus", writes The National Interest.

Air Force (Air Force) The United States has completed the first phase of demonstration tests of the semi-autonomous precision weapons system Golden Horde ("Golden Horde"), for the first time hitting six bombs at once Collaborative Small Diameter Bomb (CSDB), reports Defense News.

Russian engineers-enthusiasts announced the completion of the design of the lunar microsatellite, which will be able to view the "Apollo" and "Lunar Rovers" on the surface of the natural satellite of the Earth. Funds for its development were collected through crowdfunding, and the device will be launched into space as a passing payload, according to the developers ' message received by the editorial office of N + 1.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, announced the government's plans in June to consider the concept of a new Russian space station.

The research and production enterprise (NPP) of the defense industry "Radar MMS" will create a fully electric helicopter-type UAV and a tiltrotor by 2022. This was announced by the company's executive director Ivan Antsev in an interview with TASS.

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The company " DOK " has announced the development of an ultra-broadband 10-Gigabit mobile communication system for self-driving cars. This system operates in the frequency range of 57-64 GHz and belongs to the V2X class (Vehicle to Everything, car to Everything), being one of its most promising options-a dedicated short-range wireless network DSRC (Dedicated Short-Range Communications).

At the same time, the corporation called the issue of import substitution in the production of gas turbine units for Russian frigates of project 22350 by the engine-building company UEC-Saturn completely resolved.

The competition for the performance of research works was won by the main scientific institute of Roscosmos-TsNIIMash

Russia plans to consider the possibility of using artificial intelligence (AI) to solve the problems of the orbital group of remote sensing of the Earth (ERS), follows from the materials posted on the public procurement portal.