Why have satellite makers and astronomers beaten a path across Essex? To get to the best image sensors in the world, probably. E2V not only made the CheMin and ChemCam image sensors within NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, it is also the ...
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Monday flexed its 7-foot-long robotic arm for the first time since it landed on Mars. Monday's robotics maneuver had the rover checking its motors and joints by unstowing the arm, extending it using all five ...
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Computerworld - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity successfully tested its laser on Sunday, blasting a fist-size Martian rock and analyzing its makeup. The rover's Chemistry and Camera instrument, dubbed the ChemCam, zapped the rock with 30 ...
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Imagine working in unusually dry, cold conditions, two miles above sea level, where night and day don't follow the rules: winters are never light and summers are never dark. Welcome to the South Pole. Online store Tees For Your Head is ...
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UK-PLASA 2012 has announced a new,free-to-attend Professional Development Programme-confirming its position as one of the largest knowledge-sharing events in Europe. Created to encourage the exchange of important ideas,the new Pro ...
The Mars Science Laboratory space-probe successfully delivered the Curiosity rover onto the surface of Mars as scheduled on August 6th 2012, and all being well the exploration vehicle will soon be about its business. Curiosity's agenda ...
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A nearby Sun-like star is host to a planet that may be capable of supporting life, according to an international group of astronomers. The planet is one of five orbiting one of the closest Sun-like stars to Earth, Tau Ceti. It's in a ...
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How do you collect data from stars thousands of light years away while positioning a 300-ton telescope to within a fraction of a human hair? You use a high-tech spectrometer called MOSFIRE, rotating on a Kaydon bearing. With MOSFIRE, ...
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e2v sensor returns high-res satellite images 08 Oct 2012 a NAOMIa camera on board SPOT-6 satellite launched last month is based around a high-performance CCD chip. NAOMI camera SPOT-6,the new Earth observation satellite launched in ...
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After Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic voyages,another company announced commercial flights to space.A Colorado-based called Golden Spike plans to send tourists?to the moon by 2020.By the end of the decade,Golden Spike intends to send ...
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Astronomers building a kilometer-sized radio telescope are depending on 60-year-old magnetic tape technology to store the 1 million GB of data per day they plan to generate. The Square Kilometre Array(SKA)is a radio telescope being built ...
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Why have satellite makers and astronomers beaten a path across Essex? To get to the best image sensors in the world, probably. E2V not only made the CheMin and ChemCam image sensors within NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, it is also the ...
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IDG News Service-Japan's space agency said Friday that sensitive information on a new long-range rocket project may have been stolen by a computer virus. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency,or JAXA,said it found evidence that a single ...
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US carmaker General Motors (GM) is planning to collaborate with independent researchers to develop a new tyre technology to enhance fuel efficiency of its vehicles. Work on development of new technology is expected to begin in ...
Lighting LEDs are a route to energy efficiency that also allow creative effects that were not possible with incandescent bulbs and fluorescent tubes. But the output spectrum, like that of fluorescent tubes, is nothing like the sunlight ...
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