Electronics and optics news

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.

[b]Alexander Krasovitsky, General Director of the Military-Industrial Company LLC, noted that the Boomerang is the most powerful wheeled armored personnel carrier available in Russia today.]

The domestic armored personnel carrier "Boomerang" can be controlled even from a mobile phone. This was stated on the air of the RBC TV channel by Alexander Krasovitsky, General Director of the Military-Industrial Company LLC.

Roscosmos in the coming years will focus on the creation of an orbital group for environmental monitoring, said the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin.]

Experts have started working on satellites that can detect carbon emissions. This was announced on Sunday by the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.

Roscosmos expects sanctions pressure aimed at depriving the state corporation of a new contract with OneWeb, said the general director of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin.

Russia is not going to scare anyone with new types of weapons, but is developing them, like everyone else, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, June 4, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

Roscosmos has announced plans to improve the location accuracy of the Russian global navigation satellite system GLONASS to 10 cm after 2030. This was announced on Saturday, June 5, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the materials of the state corporation posted on the public procurement portal.

Roscosmos does not rule out NASA's participation in the project of a new space station, but this issue will be resolved later, the head of the state corporation Dmitry Rogozin told Interfax.

The first meeting on electronic warfare was held on June 4 in Moscow at the CSTO Joint Headquarters. The heads and representatives of the relevant departments of the Ministry of Defense of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, as well as the CSTO Secretariat, positively assessed the prospects for training specialists in electronic warfare from the CSTO member states in educational institutions of the Russian Ministry of Defense.