“The Martian” is a science fiction film set on Mars in the year 2035. When the protagonist Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is exploring the planet with his crew, a huge dust storm forces an emergency evacuation. But Mark is struck by debris during the storm and can’t take off with his colleagues and is presumed …
Good evening EUROAVIAns,in today Fact Friday we will ask you a question: have you ever wondered what is the green paint that can be seen on a Formula1 car? It’s the “flow-viz”, slang for “Flow-visualization” and it’s a special fluorescent powder that gets mixed up with a light oil, usually paraffin. This liquid is used …
We live in time like fish in the water. Time flows. This seems unquestionably true and universal. But “reality is often very different from what it seems”. This is the idea with which Rovelli opens “The order of time”. In the introduction he explains the book’s structure, and how it is divided into three “unequal” …
Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today Fact Friday we talk about space navigation! In ancient times, sailors used to navigate the seas by looking up at the night sky, not wondering about the universe and distant worlds, but to find their position in relation to known bright stars. In today’s modern world, where every important decision is …
01 December 2020 | 19:00 We want to invite you to our fourth online conference call: Signal Analysis in Orbit Determination. The speaker will be Andrea Togni who is currently a doctoral candidate in Mechanics and Advanced Engineering Sciences at the University of Bologna. He earned a BSc in Mechanical Engineering in 2016 and then an MSc with honors in …
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“The Aviator” is a biographical film directed by Martin Scorsese. The film is about part of the life of Howard Hughes (Leonardo Di Caprio), an entrepreneur, a pilot, an engineer and a film director famous for his record breaking planes and his films. Whilst endowed with a strong personality, he suffers from a mental disorder …
Good morning #EUROAVIAns, today we talk about the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx and how it was the “victim of its own success”. OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) is a NASA mission whose task is to reach the Bennu asteroid, take some samples and come back to Earth safe and sound. It was launched …
There was a time when the term Aviation was synonymous to bravery and Aviators were the greatest heroes of that era. In the tremulous times between the two World Wars, these men were opening new routes in the harshest regions known on Earth: from Paris to Buenos Aires and from New York to Río Grande …
Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we talk about new solutions for a greener environment. In today’s society we live hand in hand with technology only the most creative minds could have dreamed of a 100 years ago. Every day scientists all over the world push the boundaries of what is possible to a next …
17 November 2020 | 18.00 We want to invite you to our third online Conference Call: CubeSats and Space Debris. The speaker will be Niccolò Bellini, an aerospace engineer who is currently working at NPC Spacemind. Spacemind is the aerospace division of the company N.P.C. New Production Concept S.r.l., focused on research and development of …
The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra is a bestseller that reconciles eastern philosophy and western science in a brilliant humanistic vision of the universe. Written in 1975, and since been translated in over 23 languages, it is a visionary exploration into the unexpected parallels of mysticism and modern physics. The Tai Chi (Yin & …