Computerworld - NASA announced Friday morning that it's on track to once again launch astronauts into space from U.S. soil within five years. As part of its strategy to launch astronaut-carrying spacecraft again, NASA has inked deals ...
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IDG News Service - Ask any Silicon Valley entrepreneur about their startup and they'll usually tell you the sky is the limit. For some, it's not just the limit but the goal. Combining advances in electronics and new sources of funding with ...
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Emcore Corp of Albuquerque,NM,USA,which makes components,subsystems and systems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets,recently achieved its 100th successful satellite launch and deployment with primary power supplied by its solar ...
Emcore PV cells rack up 100th satellite deployment 12 Jul 2012 High-end solar cell maker says another 120 Emcore-powered satellites are already under contract. Satellite power The one-hundredth satellite to generate its primary power ...
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Sentinel aims to go asteroid hunting 11 Jul 2012 The first privately funded deep-space mission will map the inner solar system and track dangerous asteroids. Watchful eye:Sentinel will track near-Earth asteroids A proposed space ...
In preparation for the launch of Europe's answer to GPS,research satellite GIOVE-A has been retired. Made in the UK by Surrey Satellite Technology(SSTL),"the main objectives of the GIOVE-A mission were the on-board characterisation of a ...
Tags: first galileo satellite, GPS, SSTL, collect MEO radiation data.
The first Lockheed Martin Orion capsule scheduled for a ride to space has arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space centre,Florida. At present,the capsule is little more than a pressure vessel.The next two years will be spent populating it with ...
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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's laser scanner suggests 22%of matter on floor of Shackleton crater could be frozen water. Pole hole:Shackleton crater at the moon's South Pole.NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter(LRO)spacecraft has ...
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High-reliability must be combined with low power design for space systems which is why choice of an IP processor core can be critical,writes Chris RobertsChips used in space,cars and medical devices face some of the harshest operating ...
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A Zenit launch vehicle has successfully inserted Intelsat 19 into geosynchronous transfer orbit(GTO)after its 1 June liftoff from the SeaLaunch platform in the Pacific Ocean,but a problem with the satellite's solar array deployment may ...
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Surrey-based researchers are to build Xbox Kinect hardware into twin satellites in an auto-docking experiment. The microsatellites,to be called STRaND-2,are being developed by University of Surrey and Surrey Satellite ...
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Emcore Corp of Albuquerque,NM,USA,which makes components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets,has been awarded a solar panel manufacturing contract by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory(JPL)for its Soil Moisture Active ...
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The European Space Agency(ESA)has formally declared that the Envisat environmental and remote sensing satellite mission is now over,following the satellite's 8 April loss of contact and subsequent failure to reestablish it. The attempt at ...
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LONDON—After screening"Star Wars"for his students,a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pointed to a"remote"—as droids or robots are called in the movie—with which Luke Skywalker had been practicing his ...
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