September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
... Mission will demonstrate a host of enabling technologies for future deep space missions, including advanced onboard autonomy, laser communications, inter-satellite links and low-gravity operations, while exploring the Didymos binary asteroid system...
January 2017
New oceans beckon for solar sail technology
... to use a relatively small sail, on the order of a few square metres in area, illuminated by a high power laser (around 60 GW) to accelerate a 1 gram-scale spacecraft to a significant percentage of the speed of light as a means of sending multiple...
January 2017
Mini space station for mice to study effects of reproduction in reduced gravity
... data rate communications but these typically require utilization of transmission systems requiring accurate point control such as laser based communications. This need for high accuracy pointing is hard to achieve from a spinning facility. Therefore...
March 2017
Space research inspires innovation in fashion
..., pleating and lacework, but also machine-made dresses but tailored as handmade, thanks to new technologies like laser cutting, thermo-shaping and circular knitting, or items digitally produced by 3D printing. The early 1980s film Blade...
April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
... communication is radio frequency (RF) communication, used by Project Loon, SpaceX and OneWeb. A new, emerging technology is laser communication, used by Facebook’s drones. These new approaches to providing internet connections from the sky or space...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
... environment experiment on NASA’s Mars 2000 Odyssey spacecraft, plus information about Mars’ surface elevations from the laser altimeter instrument on NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor. In addition, human discomfort with drinking recycled urine might also...
