12 January 2018
Evidence in DES map of small galaxies being eaten by the Milky Way
...Way were born here. This first major release of data from the Survey includes information on about 400 million ... "There are all kinds of discoveries waiting to be found in the data. While DES scientists are focused on using it to learn about dark ...
04 November 2019
Its official! Voyager 2 has passed into interstellar space
... instrument was damaged which meant that it couldn’t gather complete data on this breakthrough moment. Voyager 2, with all of its... to try and ascertain the heliopause’s shape. Using data collected from the Low-Energy Charged Particle (LECP) instrument...
September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
... (GPUs) - 54 to be exact - originally designed for the video games industry, the Molongo inteferometer receives one petabyte (PB) of data a day (the equivalent of 200,000 DVDs a day where each DVD is 5 GB), that is processed on its mini-supercomputer...
September 2018
Bridging the ‘digital divide’ with nanosatellites
... of satellites, we will be able to provide individual customers with mobile phone services such as phone conversations, instant messaging, data transfer (including text e-mails) and even mobile-financial transactions. We will also provide M2M and IoT...
November 2018
Monitoring illegal rainforest deforestation
...designed optical instrument onboard a low-cost 16U CubeSat platform will generate a huge set of images (big data) at different illumination levels, which will demand sophisticated algorithms to detect the emergence of clandestine roads using advanced...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
... a course that would lead to a deep reliance on satellite data and technology. Now, 60 years and over 8,000 satellite launches .... Each day billions of people around the world rely on data from satellites to go about their lives. We exchange messages,...
