October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
...and commercial support of space habitats. Fig 1: Top: Laser-melting of one interlocking geometry for the PAVER project using...how pavement elements, fabricated from lunar regolith can be laser sintered into infrastructure such as roads and launch pads....
03 August 2016
Aladin gets ready for Aeolus
...Space in France, along with its two powerful lasers, Aladin incorporates a large telescope and very sensitive ...molecules and aerosols. By comparing these frequencies with the original laser, the winds below the satellite can be determined. Aladin will...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
.... The copious amounts of data expected to be generated by the AIM payload will be returned to Earth via the aforementioned laser system, maintaining a high-bandwidth link to ESA’s Optical Ground Station in Tenerife. This fixed payload will be joined...
September 2017
Science searches for cosmic company
...a rich oxygen atmosphere, and might be trying to elicit a response from anyone knowledgeable enough to build a radio transmitter or laser. Cosmic company No one can be certain whether SETI will ever succeed. However, some practitioners are optimistic...
May 2019
Unlocking the full potential of Earth observation
... it. Radix demonstrates technology for an optical data relay system. The CubeSat downlinks data to the ground using laser communication. Such optical communication downlinks increase the timeliness and amount of data that is sent between satellites...
May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
..., Charles Hull developed the commercial 3D printer using Stereolithography (SLA), a process which uses a computer-controlled moving laser beam, pre-programmed using computer aided manufacturing (CAM) and computer aided design (CAD). Conditions which...
