22 November 2015
James Webb Space Telescope prepped to receive gold-coated primary mirror segments
... millions and billions of lightyears away, each mirror is aligned to 1/10,000th the thickness of a human hair. To achieve this, engineers have used six tiny mechanical motors, or actuators, attached to the back of each mirror piece to capture the...
04 December 2017
After 37 years, Voyager 1 fires up dormant thrusters
... and hostile environment of interstellar space where the spacecraft is currently located. For the past three years, engineers have noticed that the "attitude control thrusters" onboard Voyager 1 – a thruster that controls the orientation of an object...
23 February 2022
Pivotal role for ground segment in new era of connectivity
...towards a unified 5G network architecture. And, according to a new top-level industry report produced by Euroconsult and ST Engineering iDirect, ground segments will play a pivotal role in allowing the industry to fully embrace and benefit from ...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... dialog between both parties proceeded smoothly from then on: French engineers at les Mureaux (near Paris) working on Ariane launchers and Russian engineers responsible for Soyuz understood each other perfectly, leading to important collaboration...
