September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
... mine for FRB discoveries. This 50-year-old telescope has been refitted and refurbished with a new digital back end system to be transformed and reborn into an FRB hunting machine. The telescope’s unique architecture can...
October 2017
The sci-fi noir world of Blade Runner
... is one of the main engines driving the expansion of small satellite constellations, with companies such as Astro Digital, DigitalGlobe, or the well-known Planet. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists’ database there were, on 31 December...
December 2017
Panoramas from the surface of the Moon
... later be printed out and assembled to form complete panoramic mosaics. Designer Mike Constantine has used digital technology to seamlessly blend between 15 and 25 separate frames to produce a collection of high resolution panoramas. The resulting...
February 2018
CubeSats changing the landscape for ‘app’ developers
... it use the concept of apps but also encompasses a Software Development Kit (SDK), a packaging mechanism for the digital distribution of apps, and abstract services that allow any app to retrieve information from the spacecraft platform...
