Aviation & space

Russian serial entrepreneur builds “hyperplanes” for “global hyperexpress delivery in under two hours”

February 16, 2022

Can you imagine cargo being shipped between Europe and Australia in just a couple of hours using clean liquid hydrogen fuel? A few months after his SPAC misfortune, serial entrepreneur Mikhail Kokorich — whom his PR team describes as being “like Russia’s Elon Musk” — claims this will soon come true. His new company Destinus is building a hydrogen-powered, zero-emissions, transcontinental cargo drone.  With hypersonic …

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Russian Cognitive Pilot aims to sell agricultural drones in challenging American markets

August 5, 2021

The Russian company Cognitive Pilot intends to sell its agricultural drones across North and South America, including the US market. To this end, it has registered a subsidiary, ‘Cognitive Pilot Corp.,’ in Texas, reports Vedomosti.  Cognitive Pilot CEO Olga Uskova said the flying engines will initially be sold in Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas, where no license is required …

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The SPAC wave hits Russia

February 16, 2022

Could a company from Russia, or with strong connections to Russia, ever be targeted by a SPAC? The question remained open until very recently, given the small numbers of international IPOs from Russia — the latest example in the digital field being Ozon in November last year. Such a player has now emerged, with Nexters …

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‘The Sound of Stars:’ Yandex Music uses algorithms to turn cosmic bodies into art

April 12, 2021

Yandex Music announces today The Sound of Stars, a playlist of audio compositions celebrating the 60th anniversary of the first human flight into space.  To create the playlist, the Yandex Music team used algorithms to convert the physical properties of stars, pulsars and galaxies into music, with each of the nine tracks dedicated to a …

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Hoversurf wants to make Russia a global leader in air mobility

December 11, 2020

Russian businessman and philanthropist Ismail Akhmetov has invested in Hoversurf, a pioneer in autonomous flying vehicles. The amount of the deal was not disclosed, but company valuation was established at $30 million, the Russian media reported. Previous investors in the company include Qiwi co-founder Sergey Solonin, the Starta Ventures fund and several Russian individual investors. …

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Twice as expensive as Elon Musk’s Starlink, Russia’s satellite Internet project still awaits state funding

November 17, 2020

Russia has plans to develop its own cluster of at least 500 “next-generation, multi-spectrum satellites,” starting from next year. Dubbed ’Sfera,’ the program aims to provide high-speed Internet access and communications — particularly, along the Northern Sea Route — similarly to Starlink, a project developed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.  Under plans, the first satellites could be …

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MegaFon joins race to space Internet

November 2, 2020

MegaFon, a major Russian mobile phone operator, is investing in a project that will provide data access to on-the-ground users from low-Earth orbit satellites. The operator plans to invest 6 billion rubles (some $75 million at the current exchange rate ) over the next two years into research of the new technology. A dedicated R&D …

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Deepfake video of Elon Musk singing Soviet space song appears after successful ‘SpaceX’ launch

June 5, 2020

With the successful launch of the Crew Dragon capsule, Elon Musk’s space travel company SpaceX sent its first astronauts to the International Space Station on May 30. To celebrate the occasion, Russian Internet users released a clever deepfake video of Musk singing “Grass at Home,” a famous song by the Soviet rock band “Zemlyane” (“Earthlings”). Russia’s state space corporation, Roscosmos, …

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Siberian school-leaver launches pizza into space and chats with Elon Musk

July 14, 2019

Many people first heard about ToSky on June 2, 2019, when the company launched a toy Lada into space with a figure of Dmitry Rogozin, general director of the Russian State Space Corporation (Roscosmos), inside. To do so, the startup from Tomsk (3,000 east of Moscow) used an aerostat, basically a high-altitude balloon. But Nikita …

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Russian space agency to use artificial intelligence in Moon’s exploration

October 27, 2019

Russia plans to explore the Moon using robots with the elements of artificial intelligence, the press office of the State Space Corporation Roscosmos told TASS on Tuesday.” The participation of humans in this program is harmoniously combined with the use of automatic space vehicles and robotics with the elements of artificial intelligence,” Roscosmos said. Robotized …

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US startup with Russian roots seeks to develop ‘space delivery’ business

November 26, 2018

Momentus, a US startup founded by Russian entrepreneur Mikhail Kokorich, wants to offer in outer space the same services that DHL and FedEx provide on Earth, but with multi-million dollar ‘packages.’ The company plans to move satellites from one orbit to another one. Momentus is planning to use the funds to launch its Vigoride rocket, …

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