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TerraSAR-X And NFIRE Fire Up The Pipe With Laser Data Transfer Bonn, Germany (SPX) May 14, 2008 
Satellites currently use radio waves to exchange data. Now the data rate has been increased a hundredfold by using lasers instead of radio signals. Two test satellites each carried a diode laser pump module developed with the help of Fraunhofer researchers. The data whizzed back and forth at the speed of light between German satellite TerraSAR-X and US satellite NFIRE, covering more than ... read more |
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SMS Texting Costs Are Out Of This World
Leicester UL (SPX) May 14, 2008A University of Leicester space scientist has worked out that sending texts via mobile phones works out to be far more expensive than downloading data from the Hubble Space Telescope! Dr Nigel Bannister's calculations were used for the Channel 4 Dispatches programme "The Mobile Phone Rip-Off". He worked out the cost of obtaining a megabyte of data from Hubble - and compared that with ... more Integral Systems Europe Announces EPOCH IPS Satellite Ground System PUS Compliance 
Toulouse, France (SPX) May 13, 2008ISE (Integral Systems Europe) has announced that its' EPOCH IPS (EPOCH Integrated Product Suite) COTS product is in compliance with ESA's (European Space Agency) PUS (Packet-Utilization Standard) for Satellite Control Systems and EGSE (Electrical Ground Support Equipment). Integral has implemented a complete, database-driven system for PUS services, with an open architecture for mission-specific ... more Raytheon Reaches Key Milestone On NASA Glory Space Program 
El Segundo CA (SPX) May 13, 2008Raytheon has completed manufacture and testing of the optics detector module for the aerosol polarimetry sensor. The sensor will ride on the NASA Glory satellite to help agency and other federal officials better understand the impact of aerosols on global warming and climate change. The central component of the sensor, the module contains 161 optical elements, including six telescopes prec ... more Boeing Provides New Test Facility For Next-Gen Radar Technology 
St. Louis MO (SPX) May 09, 2008Boeing has dedicated a new test and evaluation facility in Huntington Beach, Calif., that provides the technology and capability to support both current and future radar-based weapon systems. The Dynamic Advanced Radar Test (DART) facility represents a $10 million investment for the company. "DART is a one-stop, full-service facility to support design, development and qualification testin ... more NASA's WMAP Poses For ESA's Gaia 
Paris (SPX) May 09, 2008Sebastien Bouquillon, Ricky Smart and Alexandre Andrei have used the 2.2m telescope of the European Southern Observatory at La Silla, Chile, to take several photographs of NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite in its orbit, which is about 1.5 million kilometres from Earth. Perhaps surprisingly, they did so as part of the preparations for ESA's Gaia mission, which sci ... more |
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Palo Alto CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Space Systems/Loral and ICO Global Communications have successfully deployed the ICO G1 satellite's large antenna reflector on Saturday, April 26. ICO G1 is a Loral designed spacecraft that incorporates a 12 meter antenna reflector designed and built by Harris Corporation. The reflector utilizes a gold-plated mesh reflective surface and a unique new Harris design that allows a very large a ... more Graphene-Based Gadgets May Be Just Years Away 
Manchester, UK (SPX) May 01, 2008Researchers at The University of Manchester have produced tiny liquid crystal devices with electrodes made from graphene - an exciting development that could lead to computer and TV displays based on this technology. Writing in the American Chemical Society's journal Nano Letters, Dr Kostya Novoselov and colleagues from The School of Physics and Astronomy and The School of Computer Science ... more Broken Heart Image The Last For NASA's Long-Lived Polar Mission 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 29, 2008As far as endings go, this one's a real heart breaker. NASA's Polar satellite concludes its successful mission at the end of April with a breathtaking visible-light image of the colorful dancing lights of the aurora. The Polar team has dubbed this final image "The Broken Heart." When the Polar satellite launched February 24, 1996, the plan was for a two-year science mission to study the ... more Boost For Green Plastics From Plants 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Australian researchers are a step closer to turning plants into 'biofactories' capable of producing oils which can be used to replace petrochemicals used to manufacture a range of products. Scientists working within the joint CSIRO/Grains Research and Development Corporation Crop Biofactories Initiative (CBI) have achieved a major advance by accumulating 30 per cent of an unusual fatty acid (UFA ... more Expand Networks Improves Application Performance Over Satellite Communications 
Slough, UK (SPX) Apr 21, 2008Expand Networks is addressing application performance issues over satellite links enabling global enterprises to reliably deliver all business applications. With increasingly dispersed offices in remote locations, satellite networks have become common practice to assist organisations in business agility. However, the design limitations of high latency and packet loss over satellite network ... more |
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Lyon, France, April 16, 2008 European scientists say they have, for the first time, triggered electrical activity in a thunderstorm by aiming high-power laser light into the clouds. The experiment was conducted at Langmuir Laboratory in New Mexico, on top of 10,500-foot South Baldy Mountain. The laboratory is equipped to measure atmospheric electrical discharges. The scientists used laser pulses to create ... more Ball Aerospace GFO Satellite Begins Eleventh Year On Orbit 
Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 10, 2008The Ball Aerospace and Technologies operational altimeter satellite, GEOSAT Follow-On (GFO), has achieved 10 years of successful on orbit operation, providing continuous worldwide oceanographic data for ships at sea and the Navy's shore-based facilities. GFO, launched in February 1998, was the first real-time, radar altimeter satellite built for the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems ... more Newly Discovered Superinsulators Promise To Transform Materials Research, Electronics Design 
Argonne IL (SPX) Apr 10, 2008Superinsulation may sound like a marketing gimmick for a drafty attic or winter coat. But it is actually a newly discovered fundamental state of matter created by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in collaboration with several European institutions. This discovery opens new directions of inquiry in condensed matter physics and breaks ground for a new ... more Chemists work on bamboo fabric development 
Fort Collins, Colo., April 8, 2008 U.S. chemists said they've solved two problems that have slowed marketplace adoption of bamboo garments and other consumer products. Colorado State University graduate student Subhash Appidi and Associate Professor Ajoy Sarkar have discovered now to make bamboo fabric that's resistant to the sun's ultraviolet radiation and also has anti-bacterial properties. "Bamboo is environmen ... more TDRS-1 Satellite Reaches 25 Years Of Age 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Apr 08, 2008The first of six Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) system spacecraft built by Northrop Grumman completed 25 years of successful on-orbit operations on April 4, setting a new standard for long life and reliability. Enhancing earth-to-space communications for a quarter of a century, the TDRS-1 satellite tracks and communicates with low-Earth-orbiting satellites. Altogether, TDRS-1 ... more
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