26 July 2016
Will PIPER be successful in confirming Inflation Theory?
...telescope that will map 85% of the sky to look for these B-modes. PIPER consists of two identical telescopes cooled to 1.5 K within ... from all types of sources and instruments searching for B-modes need to be able to separate out interfering signals. ...
November 2016
Rosetta - an eventful cruise phase
... react to the loss of Sun presence by triggering survival modes. Rosetta flight control team during Lutetia fly-by. The flyby ... and passed the two degree threshold which triggered a safe mode onboard the spacecraft, interrupting the burn. We had no ...
17 July 2017
New company seeks to shake-up satellite launch industry
... the company in question – Relativity – has kept tight-lipped about how this will be achieved. This stealth-mode startup company’s website is giving nothing away but speaking last week at a hearing on promoting partnerships between commercial...
February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
...based systems. During autonomous work in search (monitor) mode, the tubes part and this allows for the full ... with the ability of a fully automated or remote space scanning mode. Today there are eight robot-telescopes located on five continents and...
August 2016
Rosetta overcomes major setback
...onboard software triggered a switch of the spacecraft into safe mode, forcing us to spend several hours on recovery work ...at least partially, the so-called Asteroid Fly-by Mode. This was an attitude control mode that we planned to use in flight only ...
May 2019
Cold comfort for astronauts
... would learn user behaviour, from sleeping to relaxation, and offer options to the user or act in a predictive or supporting mode. Reconfigurability of the pillow system and in a broader sense the personal space would afford additional options. This...
