May 2021
NASA’s women of inspiration
...and two months later the Mars Helicopter, Ingenuity, demonstrated the first powered, controlled flight on a world...the US, at the forefront of the mission coverage was a clear demonstration that regardless of your gender, race or background, you can be...
January 2023
Original Sin - Power, Technology and War in Outer Space
... suffered from or been threatened by them. Publicly-released satellite imagery of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 demonstrated spy satellite technologies to mass audiences that governments and militaries have enjoyed for decades. Here Earth...
06 May 2016
Accurate mass of supermassive black hole calculated by astronomers using ALMA
...is the dominant force." This observation is the first demonstration of this capability for ALMA and has helped constrain ... Boizelle, a co-author on the study. "This observation demonstrates a technique that can be applied to many other galaxies ...
07 June 2016
A green light for the LISA Pathfinder mission
... will be able to detect actual gravitational waves by ruling out possible external (and internal) interference. "Now we have to demonstrate that we can actually build a system that is quiet enough and allows us to make the measurement in the future...
13 March 2019
'Marscopter' to accompany rover on Mars 2020 mission
... for the Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology (RVLT) project. This first autonomous rotorcraft will serve as a technology demonstrator and if it all goes well, then remotely explored regions of the planet’s surface could be mapped in greater detail...
07 December 2020
New Gaia data measures Solar System's acceleration
... solar system with a relative precision of 7 percent is a very important scientific result, and at the same time, it is a convincing demonstration of the quality of the new data,” says Dresden team member Professor Klioner. “The acceleration measured...
