March 2015
Ka-band satellite communication and lowering the price of VSATs
... this problem. Its fleet includes a specially designed Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) Ka-band satellite that has 80 rays which blanket-cover all of Europe, North Africa, and even the european part of Russia. It is commercially successful...
November 2017
Roving the red planet
... of clay minerals. Only Curiosity was equipped with an X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) instrument in the form of the CheMin ... Geochemical modelling of results from the rover’s Alpha Partical X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) at the ‘Esperance’ outcrop on the Cape...
June 2019
Solar superstorms and their effects on Earth
... sizes start at A, then B, C, M, and X, so a C1 flare is 10 times a B1 flare and an X45 flare is 45 times an X1). For comparison, the largest X-ray flare recorded during the Space Age was the 4 November 2003 event estimated at about X35. Location...
February 2020
Surviving bacteria in space
... than ultra-violet and infra-red protocols. Beams of x-rays, for example, are able to pass rapidly through all ... 50x magnification. However, despite the proven efficacy of x-ray and electron beam irradiation protocols on Earth, their efficiency under...
13 January 2016
High-energy theory models questioned as neutron star produces most energetic pulsed emission radiation ever detected
...Earth and is thus responsible for the pulsed appearance of the emission, generally observed to consist of radio and X-ray beams. This type of radiation is traditionally thought to originate within the magnetosphere. Conversely, the TeV beams observed...
02 March 2016
Using MUSCLES to test for life on other planets
... this task, is a team of international astronomers headed by Kevin France, who have undertaken a panchromatic study – from the X-ray to mid-IR – of the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 11 nearby planet hosting low-mass stars (stars with masses...
