The Russian Navy is abolishing an old tradition, known as semaphore, of waving flags as a means of communication. Flag-waving has been used for passing coded messages for more than 115 years, but requires a high level of human expertise. So now instead of waving flags, sailors will use special blinking searchlights. Still, naval experts [...]
Tag: communication
December 8, 2011
November 24, 2011
Did US ‘climate weapon’ knock-out Russian probe?
Russian space experts are struggling to decode fresh telemetry signals received from the stricken Phobos-Grunt probe. Meanwhile, rumors are circulating that America’s ionosphere research site in Alaska caused the spacecraft’s failure. On Wednesday night, the European Space Agency’s station in Perth, Australia, established communication with Phobos-Grunt, which has been rotating helplessly around the Earth since [...]
November 9, 2011
The unreal reality of the Red Planet
Members of the Mars 500 experiment who spent 17 months shut away from the world are enjoying their first few days “back on Earth”. Romain Charles told RT what it was like to spend a year and a half in a confined space, simulating space flight. “I feel great seeing the normal world again – it [...]
November 9, 2011
Participants in mock Mars mission ‘family now’
What would it be like to spend some 18 months confined in a spaceship as you hurtle through the blackness of space towards Mars? No one knows for sure, but the Moscow-based Mars500 experiment attempted to recreate at least some of the conditions by locking six men away in a mock spacecraft. Despite fears of [...]
October 19, 2011
Medvedev calls for update of strategic development programs
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for a shake-up of the country’s strategic development programs on Wednesday during a meeting with members of civil society. He said that the current modernization programs, which include education, health care and modernization of the armed forces, are worthwhile, but “we are implementing them very slowly and apart from this, [...]