... 2006 and 2007, and the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), which has just arrived at the ISS aboard SpaceX's Dragon cargo ...capsule. The goal of BEAM - which offers just five per cent the volume of a B330 ...
...was found to spin 716 times per second! Pulsars are identified by beams of radiation that are swept out like the light from a lighthouse ... edge of the pulsar wind nebula torus, but the radio beams near the jets point off to the sides and remain unseen...
...Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the technique involves sending a powerful beam of microwaves directed toward the Moon from DSS-14, a 70 ...and when the signature of a small spacecraft crossed the beam, the team knew they had found what they were ...
...to assist lineofsight stabilisation so that the downlink laser beam knows where to transmit back to. For the Psyche mission... Facility in the Angeles National Forest, while the returning beam data from space will be received at a large aperture...
...a laser array on Earth in a process known as Directed Energy Propulsion. Put basically this type of propulsion uses energy beamed to the spacecraft from a remote power plant to provide energy; it can be in the form of microwaves, but in this instance...
..., or preburner. The engine is also fabricated largely by 3D printing, via electron beam melting, whereby layers of metal powder are melted in a high vacuum by an electron beam rather than a laser. Katzenstein was most recently the Senior Manager for...