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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Cardiovascular Systems has completed enrolling 443 patients in the ORBIT II trial of its electric orbital atherectomy system(OAS),designed to treat severe calcified coronary arteries. The first premarket approval(PMA)trial,which is ...
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Cellocator has launched an integrated Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) /GPS solution for the service providers in the automotive market of Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The solution consists of the ...
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Ask the average homeowner what their favorite DIY activity is, and chances are slim they will mention sanding wood. No surprise there. Sanding is no more popular than scraping paint or doing your own dental work. But if you’re an ...
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Computerworld - A robotic arm onboard the International Space Station reached out and grabbed hold of the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship today, attaching the commercial craft to the station. The station's Canadarm captured the spacecraft at ...
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Emcore Corp of Albuquerque,NM,USA,which makes components,subsystems and systems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets,has been awarded a solar panel manufacturing contract by Orbital Sciences Corp for the spacecraft it is making for ...
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It's a rare event when one technological breakthrough can have far-reaching effects in fields as diverse as stage lighting, horticulture, entomology, energy management, and potentially, space colonization. Penn State researchers from ...
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The ArcelorMittal Orbit has divided opinion and to some eyes cuts a rather ungainly figure on the Olympic Park skyline.But at night it is transformed by a dynamic lighting display that renders its bizarre geometry intelligible and breathes ...
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IBM is working with scientists at ETH Zurich to demonstrate the first-ever direct mapping of the formation of a persistent spin helix in a semiconductor.This has implications for the use of electron spins for storing,transporting and ...
Simulating the Mars mission Computational curiosity Landing system IT has been key to successfully landing the rover robot Curiosity, on Mars earlier this week. Mars missions in the past have not had a great track record. But the landing ...
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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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