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...
08 May 2019
Tests start on first design of 'wafer scale' spacecraft
... by Breakthrough Initiatives for its Starshot mission. Unlike the light sail however, the wafercraft will be powered by a laser array on Earth in a process known as Directed Energy Propulsion. Put basically this type of propulsion uses energy beamed...
March 2015
Sky links: from multi-satellite systems to nano-launchers
... possibility of using very high, even optical, frequencies for satellite-to-satellite channels should lead to resource conservation. Lasers & ‘space garbage trucks’ Currently, the main sources of space debris are the last stage of launch rockets...
