Future of electronics

Electronics is believed to be a rather young and a very promising science. It has become a powerful means of progress. Electronics has widened our vision and given us the chance to see the microworld more clearly.

Electron-optical image converters using solid-state components penetrate deep into opaque² materials, convert invisible radiations to visible, and pick up³ light of negligible intensity. Radiotelescopes are known to collect and to focus the radio waves emitted by celestial bodies⁴, revealing new facts about the universe. Of course, radio waves are not the only carriers of information in space.

Modern science knows many more media, which can be employed for this purpose. These are the infrared and ultraviolet radiations, X- and gamma rays, elementary particles and fields, ect. What role will electronics play in space travel? Above all, it will give a deep insight into the properties of outer space.

Radio is thought to help man to know more about the Sun’s atmosphere of many planets, the location, the speed of huge hydrogen clouds in space, and the processes accompanying the collisions galaxies⁵. Electronics is expected to enable the astronauts to locate their position in space.

Spaceships will be guided automatically just as planes are controlled by robots today. Electronics is sure to give the space pilots easy control for soft landing on other planets. Collision-warning radars will operate automatic control if there is a danger of meteor hitting the spaceship. Before all this can be accomplished, however, many complicated problems will have to be solved. One problem is that of extending the range of radio communication in outer. With proper refinements, radio communication is likely to be set up overdistances of 100 million kilometers or even more.

To ensure higher effectiveness and reliability of communication many thousands of scientific experiments were devoted to the investigations of these factors. All scientific achievements in the field of transmitting information over long distances being applied in the system of space communication, real possibilities are opened up transmitting tremendous amount of information over distances several hundred million kilometers.

It is expected that greater prospects for constructing even more effective systems for transmitting information in space will be opened with the application of methods and means of quantum electron and especially of quantum generators.