May 2019
Unlocking the full potential of Earth observation
... get their data down faster, airlines could save 20 percent on fuel costs by more efficiently routing their jets around storms. To make the most of Earth observation satellites, we need a highspeed data connection in space Earth observation...
February 2020
Visions of spaceflight before the Space Age
... readers, such as The First Book of Space Travel (Franklin Watts, 1953) by Jeanne Bendick and Rockets and Jets (Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1952) by Marie Neurath. In this age of instant information and communication, books still...
May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
... manager Joseph Hunt declaring the spacecraft decommissioned and the its mission concluded in mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on 30 January 2020. My first Great Observatory was the Hubble Space Telescope (HST...
March 2021
Messier 82’s starburst magnetic highway
... why the gas and dust (as illustrated here) have a more cone-shaped morphology than the familiar jet-like form resulting from the supermassive black hole accretion in the hearts of other active galaxies. These...
April 2021
Space wars - how they start and how to end them
... to ramming speed to take out a satellite, if it has on-board radar or optical systems to track a target and fine manoeuvring jets for impact accuracy. Even a small laser on a satellite can damage sensitive optical components such as Earth-oriented...
February 2022
FPGA computing reaches new heights
... example in experiments to understand the effects of radiation on electronic devices. Its major space customers have included NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), for which Alpha Data has provided modified COTS design services for firmware...
