October 2023
The impact of weather on Ka-band frequencies
...Individuals, businesses and institutions rely on it to function safely and effectively, and the demand for high-speed data transmission is ever growing. Although there are clear advantages to using higher frequencies, a key disadvantage is the effect...
21 July 2017
A new way to search for gravitational waves?
... for Cosmology, the team have suggested that astrometric data from ESA’s space-astrometry mission Gaia, could help... than 10^6. After compression, the team artificially injected GWs into the data to search for them. The team found that by using this ...
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...
