This article is a summary of the 2020s in science and technology.
Biology and medicine
Energy
Environmental sciences
- The United Nations has designated the 2020s as the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.[10]
Space
- NASA's Mars 2020 mission, which includes the Perseverance rover, was successfully launched on 30 July 2020 to study the habitability of Mars in preparation for future human missions.[11]
- The Chang'e 5 successfully landed on the surface of the Moon in 2020.[12]
- 16 September 2021, SpaceX launched Inspiration4. It was the first orbital launch of an all-private crew, including the first person with a prosthesis who was also the youngest person in space (aged 29).
- NASA's Artemis I mission to the Moon launched on 16 November 2022 to test the Space Launch System rocket.
- The James Webb Space Telescope was successfully launched on 25 December 2021. On 12 July 2022, the first full-color images captured were released to the public which included Webb's First Deep Field and others.[13]
- India hopes to conduct its first human spaceflight, Gaganyaan in late 2024.[14]
- The first component of the Lunar Gateway, a proposed inhabitable space station to be implemented by multiple international space agencies on the Moon, the Power and Propulsion Element, is set to be delivered by a SpaceX Falcon Heavy in November 2024.[15]
- ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer was launched on 14 April 2023.[16]
- SpaceX founder and entrepreneur Elon Musk plans to send the first Starship to Mars in 2029, paving the way to the colonization of the planet.[17]
- NASA plans to send "the first woman and the next man" to the Lunar south pole region via Artemis III in 2025.
- The European Space Agency plans to begin mining the Moon for natural resources by 2025.[18]
Transport
Air
Land
- Waymo became the first company to offer self-driving car services to the general public without a human supervisor in Chandler, Arizona.[20]
- Autonomous delivery vehicles began transporting food to customers in Texas in 2021.[21]
Computing and artificial intelligence
Robotics and machine learning
Physics
- In January 2020, Physicists discovered a unique metal with billions of quantum entangled electrons.[23]
- The Large Hadron Collider will once again begin operation in early 2021;[24][25][26][27] the collider was shut down in December 2018 "to enable major upgrade and renovation works."[24]
Paleontology
Archaeology
See also
References
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- ^ "China turns on nuclear-powered 'artificial sun' for first time". The Independent. 7 December 2020. Archived from the original on 7 December 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
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- ^ "United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030)". UNESCO. 9 February 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "Overview – 2020 Mission Plans". Mars.nasa.gov. NASA. Retrieved 12 November 2015.
- ^ Myers, Steven Lee; Chang, Kenneth (1 December 2020). "China Lands Chang'e-5 Spacecraft on Moon to Gather Lunar Rocks and Soil". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ "First Images of James Webb". Ars Technica. Ars Technica. 8 July 2022 [July 8, 2022]. Archived from the original on 8 July 2022.
- ^ Pillai, Soumya (22 December 2022). "India's 1st human space flight to be launched in end of 2024". www.hindustantimes.com. Archived from the original on 3 January 2023. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
- ^ "NASA, Northrop Grumman Finalize Moon Outpost Living Quarters Contract". NASA (Press release). 9 July 2021. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
- ^ "ESA's Juice lifts off on quest to discover secrets of Jupiter's icy moons". ESA (Press release). 14 April 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2023.
- ^ Torchinsky, Rina. "Elon Musk hints at crewed mission to Mars in 2029". nrp.com. nrp. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- ^ Kent, Lauren (22 January 2019). "The European Space Agency plans to start mining for natural resources on the moon". CNN. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
- ^ "United plans supersonic passenger flights by 2029". BBC News. 4 June 2021. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- ^ Lee, Timothy B. (8 October 2020). "Waymo finally launches an actual public, driverless taxi service". Ars Technica. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^ Wood, Charlie (10 July 2021). "The future of self-driving? Maybe less like Elon Musk and more like Domino's pizza robots". CNBC. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- ^ "AI is transforming the coding of computer programs". The Economist. 7 July 2021. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
- ^ "Billions of quantum entangled electrons found in 'strange metal'". ScienceDaily. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
- ^ a b CERN. "LHC prepares for new achievements". Retrieved 10 September 2019.
- ^ Hays, Brooks. "CERN reveals plans for new experiment to search for dark matter particles". United Press International. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
- ^ Tech2 News Staff (3 September 2019). "Cern's Large Hadron Collider Gets Major Upgrade, Experiments to Resume in 2021". Tech2. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
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