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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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NASA Finds Strong Evidence for Liquid Water on Mars
Dec 29, 2015U.S. space agency NASA announced on Monday it has found "strong" evidence that there is liquid water intermittently flowing on present-day Mars. Images taken from the Mars orbit showed dark, finger-like markings that, typically less than ...
Tags: NASA, Liquid Water, Mars
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International Space Station's 15 Years of Continuous Human Presence Celebrated
Dec 29, 2015The International Space Station on Monday reached another milestone: the orbiting laboratory has been home to astronauts and cosmonauts for 15 consecutive years. Although placed in orbit in 1998, the station did not welcome its first ...
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Bacteria Found Living on International Space Station: U.S. Space Agency Study
Dec 29, 2015Opportunistic bacterial pathogens, including those linked to inflammations or skin irritations, have been found living on the International Space Station, according to a study conducted by the U.S. space agency NASA. "Where there are ...
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Space Station Receives First U.S. Shipment Since Rocket Explosion
Dec 29, 2015The International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday received its first U.S. shipment, including food and Christmas presents, since two private U.S. space firms each recently suffered a failure on their cargo delivery missions, U.S. space ...
Tags: Space Station, U.S.Shipment
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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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NASA Suspends 2016 Launch of Mars Lander due to Instrument Leak
Dec 25, 2015U.S. space agency NASA said Tuesday it has suspended the planned launch of a Mars lander called InSight in March 2016 due to unsuccessful attempts to repair a leak in a French-built seismological instrument. "The bottom line is that we're ...
Tags: NASA, Mars Lander, Instrument Leak
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How Astronauts Might be Able to Grow Martian Potatoes with NASA Lighting Technology
Oct 14, 2015Stranded on the barren red planet Mars with few supplies available, astronaut Mark Watney played by Hollywood actor Matt Damon in The Martian is fighting for survival against harsh natural elements. To sustain himself, Damon’s ...
Tags: NASA, LED grow lights, space
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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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