April 2021
Satellites in the cloud: data from orbit
...thereby increasing the consumption of cloud services, whether for compute, storage or network capabilities. In mid-2019, Descartes Labs built the first system on the TOP500 fastest supercomputers list to run completely on public cloud resources. Soon...
July 2021
Canadarm2 - 20 years of Canadian space robotics on the ISS
... operating the Station’s new robotic arm from the US Lab module and Hadfield in the Shuttle, the ‘handshake in space’... took place. Canadarm2, based on the US Lab module, picked up the structure in which it had ridden to orbit and...
July 2021
Nitrous oxide – a green propellant for commercial space exploration
... the Mark-III resistojet at the United States Air Force Research Lab at Edwards Air Force Base, in 1998, it was noticed ... expulsion from storage tanks. In support of this concept, lab tests were conducted to explore the self-pressurisation feature of ...
January 2022
FPGA computing reaches new heights
... The ADK-VA600 will be a commercial grade board for lab development, but laid out in full 6U Space VPX form... or no redesign required. Customers will be able to prototype with the lab board, and then either move onto their own design to meet their ...
15 October 2015
Hitchhikers no more: NASA picks 3 firms to launch cubesats
... million for Firefly Space Systems, and $6.9 million for Rocket Lab USA. Virgin and Firefly’s contracts are discounted due to NASA’s ...status as an early customer, while Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck said that its Electron vehicle will be ...
03 May 2016
Martian Seasonal Streaks May be Caused by Boiling Water
... has reported Monday that the results of their Earth-bound lab experiments back up the theory that seasonal dark lines on... study, also published in Nature Geoscience, researchers took to the lab to try and explain how water could have made the lines....
