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Sofradir's Tropomi Detector Lifts off on Sentinel-5P Satellite
Oct 18, 2017Sofradir of Palaiseau near Paris, France – a subsidiary of Safran and Thales that makes infrared (IR) detectors for aerospace, defense and commercial markets – says that its detector Tropomi is among the instruments launched on ...
Tags: Sofradir, IR detectors
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CSEM, NREL and EPFL Raise Silicon-Based Multi-Junction Solar Cell Efficiency Record
Aug 30, 2017The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology CSEM (Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique) and EPFL (école Polytechnique ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Microtechnology
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Sofradir Developing 2048X2048 15μM-Pitch Swir Detector for Space Observation
Jun 19, 2017Sofradir of Palaiseau near Paris, France – a subsidiary of Safran and Thales that makes cooled infrared (IR) detectors for military, space, scientific and industrial applications – is developing its first very-large-format ...
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Airbus Defence and Space Awarded Third Contract in 18 Months for GaN-Based Satellite Amplifiers
Jul 12, 2016Airbus Defence and Space, which is reckoned to be the world's second largest space company (and a division of Airbus Group, Europe's top defence and space enterprise), has won its third contract in 18 months for its latest gallium nitride ...
Tags: GaN HEMT, SSPAs, Navigation Satellites
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Tampere Granted €2.5m to Develop III-V Solar Cells with up to Eight Junctions
Apr 5, 2016The European Commission's European Research Council (ERC) has granted €2.5m to professor Mircea Guina of the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at Tampere University of Technology (TUT) to apply new technology in solar cell ...
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Russian Cosmonaut Breaks World Record of Total Days in Space
Dec 29, 2015A Russian space capsule landed safely in Kazakhstan, bringing home a three-person crew from the International Space Station, including a record-breaking Russian cosmonaut. Russia's Gennady Padalka, Andreas Mogensen of the European Space ...
Tags: World Record, Total Days in Space
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British Astronaut Says He Has A Spectacular Life up in Space
Dec 28, 2015The first Briton on board the International Space Station, Tim Peake, has been giving his initial impressions of space during a news conference. He arrived on the space station just three days ago with two other astronauts, one from Russia ...
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The Transmitter Is Used Routinely to Return Mission Imagery to The Ground
Jun 29, 2015What is decribed as the first European-made device based on gallium nitride (GaN) to be sent into space has completed its second year of operations. Hosted by the European Space Agency (ESA) on its Earth-observing Proba-V mini-satellite in ...
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Sofradir Delivered 24 Swir to ADS for The ESA Sentinel-2 Mission
Jun 25, 2015Sofradir of Palaiseau near Paris, France, which makes cooled infrared (IR) detectors based on mercury cadmium telluride (MCT/HgCdTe), indium antimonide (InSb), quantum-well infrared photodetector (QWIP) and indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) ...
Tags: IR Detectors, infrared detector
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Arklu Is Showcasing Its New Range of Lottie Dolls
Jan 30, 2015New line the result of collaborations with the European Space Agency, TrowelBlazers and the Girls Leadership Institute. Arklu is showcasing its new range of Lottie dolls at Spielwarenmesse 2015, including the ‘Gold Collection’ ...
Tags: women archaeologists, palaeontologists, geologists, Toys
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Nammo Successfully Tested Its Large Hybrid Rocket Motors in Its Norwegian Test Site
Dec 15, 2014Bloodhound Project’s rocket partner Nammo has successfully tested its large hybrid rocket motors in its Norwegian test site which is expected to power Bloodhound Supersonic Car. The supersonic car is expected to be equipped with ...
Tags: Engine, Supersonic Car
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NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory Has Seen a Fast-Moving Pulsar Escaping
Feb 19, 2014NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has seen a fast-moving pulsar escaping from a supernova remnant while spewing out a record-breaking jet—the longest of any object in the Milky Way galaxy—of high-energy particles. The pulsar, a ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Jet
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Has Passed Its First Significant Mission Milestone 2014
Feb 10, 2014(Phys.org) —NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has passed its first significant mission milestone for 2014—a Spacecraft Critical Design Review (SCDR) that examined the telescope's power, communications and pointing control ...
Tags: Telescope, Webb Space Telescope
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Invotec Group Is Delighted to Announce That It Has Been Formally Awarded ESA Approval
Jan 22, 2014Invotec Group, Europe’s leading manufacturer of time critical, high technology PCBs, is delighted to announce that it has been formally awarded ESA approval – the first PCB supplier to achieve such approval in many years. The ...
Tags: PCB, Invotec Group, ESA, Invotec pride
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Gaia-ESO Project Has Provided Evidence Backing up The Chemical Composition of The Stars
Jan 21, 2014A breakthrough using data from the Gaia-ESO project has provided evidence backing up theoretically predicted divisions in the chemical composition of the stars that make up the Milky Way's disc – the vast collection of giant gas ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics