October 2020
Essential role of satellites in disaster and pandemic management
...the mission. Robots and Internet of Things (IoT) devices served to reduce contact between healthcare service providers and... of cloud-based systems for robotics makers. IoT devices and robots meant exhausted healthcare providers could be relieved...
May 2021
Forecasting space-weather effects on Earth
...and today, magnetic navigation is implemented on most planes and ships for safe and reliable positioning. In all devices, pointing direction is determined by measuring the magnetic field with a vector magnetometer (compass) and comparing the measured...
July 2021
Nitrous oxide – a green propellant for commercial space exploration
... existing N2O-fed bipropellant thrusters use non-hypergolic propellant combinations, which means that special ignitor devices are required as starters (e.g. electric fuses, pyros and torches that limit the number of thruster starts). By contrast...
June 2022
Patent protection for space manufacturing
... or land vehicles that are temporarily or accidentally in a country. However, as this provision specifically relates to the use of a device, it would seem that it is not relevant to the situation of a product being imported into a country (from space...
11 April 2017
ESA to supply cameras for Russian lunar mission
... craft aiming to return lunar soil samples back to Earth with a device also supplied by ESA. "We hope, at least as of today ...to take part, they said ‘yes’ concerning soil collecting devices and ‘yes’ concerning high-precision cameras for the 2019 ...
09 October 2017
New telescope attachment helps find exoplanets
... York, spreads incoming light across an image with a carefully structured micro-optic device to minimise distortions from the Earth’s atmosphere. This device is known as a diffuser, or a “beam-shaping diffuser” to be more precise and this adaptable...
