March 2019
Urgent action needed to avert space debris threat
... Transparent communication Currently, there are a number of methods of tracking objects in space, such as the Space Data Association’s Space Data Center (SDC), which ingests flight dynamics information from member companies as well as other available...
February 2022
FPGA computing reaches new heights
... applications from its early days, for example in experiments to understand the effects of radiation on electronic devices Alpha Data’s products have been used in space sector applications from its early days, for example in experiments to understand...
13 September 2017
New constellation to reshape Earth observation market
... for a long time.” The very high communication bandwidth possible with lasers – of up to 1.8 Gbit/s – means that up to 40 terabytes of data per day can be transmitted securely in quasi-real-time to Earth. This is a boon for customers when it comes...
02 May 2018
Astronomers spot fastest stars in the galaxy with Gaia
... of information on over 1.6 billion stars in our galaxy to an eagerly awaiting scientific community. What followed was a frenzied downloading of data as scientists around the globe sought to uncover the mysteries of the Milky Way. One such study has...
25 May 2020
Clashing galaxies may have triggered Solar System formation says new study
...feat scientists have managed by piecing together about 73 Terabytes of data produced by Gaia as it observed around one billion stars an...is not done yet with causing a commotion. Existing data suggests that the dwarf galaxy might have passed through ...
02 November 2018
Scientists unravel the formation history of the Milky Way
... after looking at the motions of seven million stars in the Gaia data, found that 30, 000 of them were behaving rather oddly. Instead...of the paper and also chair of the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium Executive. This is what Gaia was built...
