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...
12 November 2018
"Its Business Time" for Rocket Lab's first commercial flight
...Performance Space Structure Systems GmbH, known as NABEO. The device, which was built with support of the state of...where its payload provider Planet, added yet another data-collecting device to the world's largest fleet of Earth-imaging satellites. ...
05 April 2019
Hayabusa2 probe 'bombs' asteroid to create a crater
... unearthed fragments that have never seen the light of day thanks to the explosive device that the spacecraft dropped. The explosive device, called the Small Carry-on Impactor (SCI), is a 14 kilogram conical container packed with plastic...
29 March 2018
Rocket Owners’ Workshop Manual
.... Unfortunately, the author does not recognise the industry convention that refers to liquid propellant devices as engines and solid propellant devices as motors, which results is oxymorons such as “liquid propellant motors”. The much larger second...
20 January 2021
"Mole" on NASA's InSight mission to dig no more
... the unique and innovative instrument to these new circumstances. “The mole is a device with no heritage. What we attempted to do – to dig so deep with a device so small – is unprecedented,” said Troy Hudson, a scientist and engineer at NASA’s Jet...
July 2014
A revitalised space sector reduces costs and makes space data more accessible
... about the satellite navigation systems that allow them to pinpoint their position on their smartphone or other portable device. While satellite systems in near-Earth space have made the transition from novelty and convenience to being...
