Problem 4: QLOITER Instability, Failsafe Misunderstanding, and Recovery Mistakes During a flight test on January 18-th, 2025, our drone...

QSTAB Mode:  In this minimally stabilized mode, our aircraft has a strong tendency to slide to one side (due to lift) , making controlled...

Flight testing a drone is an exciting but often unpredictable process. Each test reveals new challenges and teaches valuable lessons....

Since my graduation project I have been fascinated by the potential to design an airfoil perfectly matching some specified design...

One of the scientific missions we envisage for our aircraft is the measurement of the Martian atmospheric boundary layer parameters. By...

A while ago, we launched this exciting and oh, so educational process of scaling our Martian aircraft for Earth and designing and...

It seems that each following step in our LEMFEV journey brings about new exciting challenges - new opportunities to learn and craft...

In our project, we used the house of quality chart, exemplified in Fig. 1, to identify the measures of merit for subsequent optimization....

5 talks at conferences Academic Space Conference dedicated to the memory of academician Korolev S.P. and other prominent Russian...

Last week, we gave four talks about the LEMFEV to kids aged 10 to 15 in four cities in the Moscow region. This beautiful opportunity was...

Having completed the conceptual design of the WT1 configuration, we proceeded with the project design. In particular, we focused on a...

On October 9th, we gave a talk at the Fourteenth Moscow Solar System Symposium held at the Space Research Institute. We were received...

In my engineering practice, I have encountered issues several times when using equations given in textbooks. The issue was that the...

For a while, we have been working on the WT3 configuration of our UAV, that is, the wing-tail rocket engine configuration. For the design...

this is a test post, hope to see you on Mars soon!