18 January 2017
The unusual tails of a pulsar give a clue as to what type of pulse it generates
...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...
10 March 2017
New interplanetary radar technique spots "lost" lunar spacecraft
...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 ...
20 October 2017
NASA Psyche mission to use laser communication
...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...
08 May 2019
Tests start on first design of 'wafer scale' spacecraft
...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...
26 February 2016
SpaceX's Garrett Katzenstein joins Rocket Lab
..., 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...
26 February 2018
Space Architecture Education for Engineers and Architects
... becoming increasingly relevant as the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) continues to orbit Earth attached to the International Space.... Although this book was put together long before BEAM reached orbit and mentions Bigelow only in passing, ...
