In this film Brad Pritt is Roy McBride an experienced astronaut, living in the late 21st century, who is chosen to do a special mission, he must save the Earth from power surges that are happening all around the world. These events are caused by another spacecraft of a previous mission called “Lima Project” and …
Good morning dear #EUROAVIAns, in this Fact Friday we talk about how humans will try to divert an asteroid! 🌑 Let’s imagine this situation: we discover that a 100 m wide asteroid is directed towards Earth and it will hit a large city. How could this thread be faced? 😱 Panic is not an option …
Hello #EUROAVIANs 🚀💫,Get ready for the second space rendezvous! This time the guest will be Nabil Souhair, a PhD candidate, and he will talk about “novel electric propulsion systems: helicon plasma thrusters” 💥.If you are curious to know more on the subject, we are waiting for you at Bifor on November 25th at 19:00 🍻. Also remember …
Mostly people remind him as the first American on the space. I honestly know him as the first person to play golf on the moon, without any participation to a “Major golf” tournament. Now I am going to sum up his life, which looks like an adventure book. He was born in New Hampshire in …
Good morning #EUROAVIAns, in today’s Fact Friday we talk about Carbon-neutral flights (CO2 neutral). In recent years, due to the growing attention to climate problems, airlines are also trying to change things into greener aviation. One of the terms mostly used these days is “carbon-neutral flights”, but what does it mean? Carbon neutrality means to …
Hello #EUROAVIAns 🚀💫,We are glad to announce a collaboration between @ASNapoli, @ASPisa and @ASForlì-Bologna, that created a #partnership with @SIDI (Swiss Institute for Disruptive Innovation) 🤝. SIDI identifies, studies, and explores opportunities and risks of imminent disruptive innovations to guide companies, institutions, and public administrations to unlock their growth potential 💡. They #believe that in a world in constant evolution, thinking in terms of systems is critical.As …
THE ISS IS IN DANGER According to the US State Department, Russia destroyed a satellite with a ground-based missile, creating thousands of debris that have spread out into Earth orbit.It is known that Russia performed an ASAT test on the 16th of November 2021, and on the same day a Russian satellite blew up, endangering …
The legendary story of the man who said the famous phrase: “That’s one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.” “Un piccolo passo per l’uomo, un gigantesco balzo per l’umanità” After suffering the terrible mourning of the loss of his daughter, Neil Armstrong joins NASA in 1962. After a career as a test …
Good morning #EUROAVIAns, in today’s Fact Friday we are talking about CFD, the acronym for ‘Computational Fluid Dynamics’, one of the newest developments in aerospace engineering, but not only! It consists of providing the numerical solution of a fluid dynamics model, usually based on partial-derivatives differential equations. This is a very difficult task, because these …
Ermenegildo Preti was an italian aeronautical engineer. He was born in Milan in 1918 and, from a very young age, he showed an interest in aviation. In 1936, while he was still attending high school, he designed his first glider, the later called CVV1 “Pinguino” (Penguin). Two years later he started studying industrial engineering at …
Good morning #EUROAVIAns, in today’s Fact Friday we talk about vanMoof bikes. We see the signs daily, we can see it when walking through the city centre, when going for a stroll in the park and even when taking a tough hike across the mountains. Pollution always surrounds us, be it in the plastic besides …