Nasa is partnering with Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin to help simulate lunar gravity conditions closer to Earth, below the Kármán line. The US space agency is looking to take advantage of new testing capabilities in the company’s reusable suborbital rocket system, dubbed New Shepard (pictured). Currently, Nasa says, it can approximate the Moon’s gravity on ...
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Teledyne Imaging is introducing COSMOS, its large-format, back side illuminated (BSI) CMOS camera, which is optimised for astronomy. Specifically, the camera is aimed at ground-based astronomical imaging (for example, exoplanet characterisation and discovery, orbital object tracking and time domain astronomy). The company writes: Built around Teledyne’s proprietary LACera image sensor technology, COSMOS delivers deep-cooled, low-noise ...
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Google has announced a major upgrade to its Flutter toolkit with version 2.0 adding operating system support for Windows, macOS, and Linux, in addition to Android and iOS. There is also what Google describes as production-quality support for web-based applications, calling Flutter from within HTML. Launched in London back in December 2018, Flutter is a ...
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The NSF (National Science Foundation) in America has provided a report to the US Congress concerning the collapsed Arecibo Observatory and options for future development. It says it will begin plans to decommission the 305-meter telescope, which has served for 57 years as a major resource resource for radio astronomy, planetary, solar system and geospace ...
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We’re very proud to announce another new sponsor has signed up to support year’s virtual Elektra awards – Vox Power are now kindly sponsoring the Excellence in Product Design (Medical) award. We look forward to seeing Vox Power take part in the event by video. Don’t forget that this year’s Elektra Awards will take place as a free ...
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Ahead of the ExoMars 2022 mission, the European Space Agency (ESA) has been advancing the testing of its spacecraft. Specifically, a complete composite of the ExoMars 2022 mission has been undergoing a dynamic balancing test in an anechoic chamber at Thales Alenia Space’s facilities in Cannes. The test ensures the spacecraft will be perfectly balanced ...
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Intelsat has completed its acquisition of the commercial aviation business of Gogo. It creates, says the company, “the world’s leading provider of inflight broadband connectivity to the commercial aviation industry”. The $400m cash deal – which was first reported back in September 2020 – brings together the satellite operator with the provider of inflight broadband ...
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Advantech, a specialist in industrial IoT, has launched Advantech Connect, with AIoT Vision as its theme. An online partner conference, the forum will centre around five main topics: Industrial IoT, Embedded IoT, IoT Cloud Platform – WISE-PaaS, Smart City Solutions and Services, and Cloud IoT. It is being held from 24 February to 6 May. ...
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binder is extending its M16 connector series, which offer environmental protection up to IP68, featuring mainly metal housings and a robust screw locking system. The combination of a high pin count with the compact size of nominally 18.5mm diameter and 60mm in length means M16 connectors offer an alternative to more expensive connector systems, says ...
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In the context of both a global pandemic and Brexit, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has finished presenting his Budget 2021 to the House of Commons. He’s been setting out a £65bn three-point plan “to provide support for jobs and businesses”. With extensions to furlough, self-employed support and business grants grabbing the headlines, ...
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