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ThinKom completes technology validation on Telesat low-earth orbit satellite
Jul 03, 2019 (SPX)
ThinKom's Ka2517 antenna successfully acquired, tracked and maintained seamless end-to-end connectivity with the Telesat LEO satellite. Full-duplex throughput d...
Space Weather causes years of radiation damage to satellites using electric propulsion
Jul 02, 2019 (SPX)
The new research by British Antarctic Survey, University of Cambridge, and DH Consultancy - published this month in the journal Space Weather - is being present...
ESA studying radiation impacts of hardware and humans
Jul 02, 2019 (ESA)
Space radiation passes through matter and penetrates the human body. Energetic particles impact living tissues, impairing normal function of cells and even kill...
China unveils cloud-tech platform to serve commercial space industry
Jul 01, 2019 (XNA)
The Space Cloud Cubic platform launched Wednesday in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, is developed to provide comprehensive solutions to various part...
Researchers verify 70-year-old theory of turbulence in fluids
Jul 01, 2019 (SPX)
A collaboration between researchers at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and University of Queensland, Australia, set out to learn more about the everyday e...
First taste of space for Spacebus Neo satellite
Jun 28, 2019 (ESA)
These enormous test chambers, which can be cooled to minus 180 Celsius, are designed to accommodate an entire spacecraft and effectively replicate the extreme t...
Mimicking the ultrastructure of wood with 3D-printing
Jun 28, 2019 (SPX)
Through emulating the natural cellular architecture of wood, they now present the ability to create green products derived from trees, with unique properties - ...
Half of Indian Anti-Satellite Test Debris Still Orbiting in Space - Harvard Astronomer
Jun 28, 2019 (Sputnik)
Three months after India conducted an anti-satellite test in which it "shot down" a low-orbiting satellite, the 41 pieces of debris generated in the process rem...
Machine Learning Tool Searches Star Data for Likely Exoplanet Hosts
Jun 27, 2019 (SPX)
"My viewing habits have trained Netflix to recommend sci-fi movies I might like - based on what I've already watched. These watched movies are like the known st...
Raytheon awarded $96.6M for Silent Knight Radar system
Jun 24, 2019 (UPI)
The contract modification increases the ceiling to $300 million for continued low-rate initial production of the radar system for rotary and fixed-wing aircraft...
Researchers see around corners to detect object shapes
Jun 24, 2019 (SPX)
The researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Toronto and University College London said this technique enables them to reconstruct images ...
ESA awards Siemens and Sonaca contract to design new additive manufacturing applications
Jun 21, 2019 (SPX)
The two-year long project, named Design4AM, is built on a strong collaboration between Siemens and Sonaca, a specialist in aerospace structures, with financial ...
Benefits of 3-D Woven Composite Fabrics
Jun 19, 2019 (SPX)
What is 3-D weaving? Most fabrics are woven in two dimensions - the X axis (length) and the Y axis (width). 3-D woven fabrics include weaving through the thickn...
A new manufacturing process for aluminum alloys
Jun 19, 2019 (SPX)
Using a novel Solid Phase Processing approach, the research team eliminated several steps that are required during conventional extrusion processing of aluminum...
Compliant space mechanisms
Jun 18, 2019 (SPX)
Thus, there is no need for assembly. And, with no joints there is no rubbing or friction between two parts, unlike the traditional rigid body mechanisms that ha...
AFRL produces lighter, thinner transparent armor
Jun 18, 2019 (SPX)
With a growing need in the Department of Defense for transparent armor for personnel protection and infrared windows for reconnaissance applications, the Air Fo...
Supermicro high-performance systems support major scientific discovery and exploration even to distant galaxies
Jun 18, 2019 (SPX)
A recent example is the black hole images taken from a galaxy 55 million light-years away. Another is the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) selecting Su...
Melting a satellite, a piece at a time
Jun 18, 2019 (ESA)
Taking place as part of ESA's Clean Space initiative, the fiery testing occurred inside a plasma wind tunnel, reproducing reentry conditions, at the DLR German ...
Laser trick produces high-energy terahertz pulses
Jun 17, 2019 (SPX)
Terahertz radiation is to open the way for a new generation of compact particle accelerators that will find room on a lab bench. The team headed by Andreas Maie...
Enabling revolutionary nondestructive inspection capability
Jun 17, 2019 (SPX)
Current technologies, however, are not ideal. X-rays produce a continuum of energies that limit their inspection and diagnostic performance, and gamma rays can ...
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