The first test flight of NASA Ingenuity Mars helicopter has successfully completed. It becomes the first ever aircraft to achieve powered flight on another planet. Telemetry analysis reports the craft as having performed: spin up, take off, flying, hovver, descent, landing, touch down and spin down. You can hear ground control, in the video below, ...
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A Carbon Mapper consortium has announced a programme to accelerate reductions in global methane and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. It plans to deploy a hyperspectral satellite constellation with the ability to identify harmful emissions from air and space. Basically, the programme is about locating, quantifying and tracking methane and co2 point-source emissions. The tool will ...
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Andy Conway, sales manager at military embedded system specialist Recab UK, looks at the critical technologies at the edge of the battlefield and beyond, such as the Ethernet-based HSR, PRP and TSN protocols. Technology becomes more important to military and defence operations with each passing year. We need only look to the UK Government’s recent ...
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The Finnish satellite imagery specialist ICEYE has opened a new spacecraft production centre in Irvine, California. The company’s U.S. headquarters will also contain a research and development lab, offices, and a “customer engagement space”. The Irvine location also houses a Mission Operations Center for monitoring and operating U.S. licensed spacecraft. “Like other aerospace hubs around ...
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Arianespace, is organising a contest where first prize will be a spot on a rideshare mission for a cubesat-sized satellite. The Paris-based launch services company is the running competition in conjunction with the VivaTech international innovation show. It writes: Participating teams will try to convince the members of the Arianespace jury by presenting the potential ...
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Northrop Grumman is claiming it has made history with the Docking of a second “Mission Extension Vehicle” to extend the life of an Intelsat satellite. Both the companies suggest the successful docking paves the way for future on-orbit and life-extension services. Northrop Grumman (via its wholly-owned subsidiary, SpaceLogistics LLC) completed the docking of the Mission ...
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Northrop Grumman is claiming it has made history with the Docking of a second “Mission Extension Vehicle” to extend the life of an Intelsat satellite. Both the companies suggest the successful docking paves the way for future on-orbit and life-extension services. Northrop Grumman (via its wholly-owned subsidiary, SpaceLogistics LLC) completed the docking of the Mission ...
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Digi-Key has highlighted how it turned to Bluetooth, and a LoRa network, to ensure safe distancing procedures for all employees in its product distribution center (PDC). Each employee is issued with an Option badge, which interact wirelessly with other such badges and also a cloud platform that can maintain contact tracing information. This improves the ...
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The Berlin-based Exolaunch – which specialises in launch and rideshare services and small satellite deployment – has introduced what it describes as an eco-friendly space tug programme. According to the company, this features a new orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) – dubbed Reliant – that will launch satellites to custom orbits in an “environmentally responsible way”. ...
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Intelsat has released a smaller antenna class for its FlexMaritime service. The 45cm antennas will support broadband connectivity for leisure, fishing and light-commercial maritime vessels. Pictured above are 45cm terminals from KNS and Intellian, which are now qualified on the FlexMaritime network, which provides data speeds of up to 6 x 2 megabits per second ...
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