Aviation - astronautics

Scientists of Institute of Space Research (ISR) of Ukrainian National Academy of Science (UNAS) and National Space Agency of Ukraine (NSAU) together with representatives of scientific schools and NTUU "Igor Sikorsky KPI" administration discussed at the meeting that took place in the university, on 13th December, the issue of cooperation development and creation of common Scientific and Educational Center of Space Research and Technologies.

A delegation of SAS (Special Aerospace Service) with its chief technical officer and cofounder Tim Bulk as well as project managers Bill Clark and Ken Lindas visited NTUU "Igor Sikorsky KPI" in October, 5.

The project of mars rover, or rather mars aircraft "Mars Hopper" developed in Ukraine won an international hackathon "NASA Space App Challenge".

The chairman of the State Space Agency of Ukraine Lubomyr Sabadosh visited the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute" on May 20.

On April 27, 2016 the 25th anniversary of the Kyiv Museum of Astronautics History (today – Department of history of aviation and cosmonautics of State Polytechnic Museum of I.I. Sikorsky in NTUU “KPI”) took place.

Delegation of top-managers of «Boeing International» visited NTUU “KPI” in November, 4.

After finishing World War the Second the relations between USSR and USA are abruptly aggravated. From 1946 in the United States the nuclear plans were developed to attack USSR.

On 24th October, 2015 at the State Polytechnic Museum at "KPI" was held a round table discussion, dedicated to the disaster at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which occurred on 24th October, 1960. Then a missile R-16 exploded on the launch platform.

In the late forties of the last century, the rocketry was intensively developing in the Soviet Union. The first domestically produced ballistic rocket P1 was launched on October 10, 1948 from the Kapustin Yar.

The representatives of “Textron” (USA) industrial conglomerate “Textron” and “Progresstech-Ukraine” company visited National technical university “Kyiv polytechnic institute” in September, 9.