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PowerLight Technologies to Provide Tech for DARPA Initiative
KENT, Wash. Feb. 2, 2024 — PowerLight Technologies, a developer of laser power beaming systems, will provide critical wireless power beaming expertise, solutions, and support for the development of lunar power infrastructure, as part of Blue Origin’s award under the...
NASA Aims to Deploy Terahertz Laser to Help Resolve Lunar Water Mystery
GREENBELT, Md., Aug. 26, 2022 — Locating water and other resources on Earth’s moon and beyond in our solar system is a NASA priority crucial to exploring our solar system and beyond. Previous experiments inferred and then confirmed the existence of small amounts of water...
LZH and TU Berlin Bring 3D Printing to the Moon
HANNOVER, Germany, June 28, 2022 — Scientists from the Laser Zentrum Hannover eV (LZH) and the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin) are planning a flight to the moon to melt lunar dust with laser radiation. Researchers, on a project called MOONRISE, are looking to AI-aided...
NeoPhotonics Charges Forward in 800G Transceiver Race: Week in Brief: 03/04/22
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 4, 2022 — NeoPhotonics Corp. reported that it successfully used its indium phosphide-based coherent receiver and coherent modulators, coupled with its ultranarrow linewidth tunable lasers or distributed feedback lasers to demonstrate 120-Gbaud operation in...
Air Force Researchers Track Asteroid and Its Moon with Smallest Telescope Yet
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M., Jan. 6, 2022 — A 1.5-m Starfire Optical Range (SOR) telescope at Kirtland Air Force Base recorded an image of asteroid Kalliope and its moon Linus, making it the smallest telescope to date to image and follow an asteroid and its natural satellite over months, the...
Brimrose to Develop Sophisticated Sensing Instrument for NASA
SPARKS, Md., June 7, 2021 — NASA has selected Brimrose Technology Corporation (BTC) to provide a sophisticated sensing technology to search for materials on the moons and planets of our solar system. The winning proposal is for the development of CIMMOS, a compact, integrated,...
Infrared Spectroscopy Technique Unveils Insights into Planet Formation
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Nov. 10, 2020 — Planetary scientists at Brown University have introduced an infrared spectroscopic method for studying olivine, a mineral that provides insights into the formation of the moon, Mars, and other planetary bodies. Informally dubbed “crossover...
Celestial light switch reveals lunar ranging data
May 5, 2014 — When certain members of the universe play a linear game of hide-and-seek, humans pay attention: Many don special solar glasses; others stay up late to catch sight of a burnt-orange moon. Solar and lunar eclipses are sights to behold, appearing just...
Sunshield for NASA Telescope Ready for Manufacturing
REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Sept. 27, 2013 — The template layers of a tennis-court sized sunshield that will help protect the optics on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have been completed, marking the final step before the final flight sunshield will be manufactured. Project...
Emcore Nabs $10M Solar Panel Contract from NASA
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Jan. 11, 2011 — Emcore Corp. received a $10 million contract from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Md., to manufacture, test and deliver solar panels for the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission. The company expects to deliver a total...
Surprising Gases in Moon Impact Plume
GREENBELT, Md, Oct. 26, 2010 — NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and its sophisticated suite of instruments have determined that hydrogen, mercury and other volatile substances are present in permanently shaded soils on the Moon, according to a paper published in the Oct....
Giant Camera Heads to Hawaii
EDINBURGH, Scotland, Feb. 22, 2008 -- The UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh yesterday shipped its biggest and most complex instrument ever -- a four-ton camera the size of a car that is expected to make major discoveries about the origins of the...
Google Funds $30M Moon Race
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 14, 2007 -- The X Prize Foundation and Google Inc. announced yesterday the launch of the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize, an international race to land a privately funded robotic rover on the Moon and send images and data back to Earth. "The Google Lunar X...
NASA to Use Polychromix Spectrometers in Lunar Ice Search
Oct 30, 2006 — Polychromix Inc. of Wilmington, Mass., a developer of spectroscopy devices, announced it will collaborate with NASA to provide Digital Transform Spectrometers (DTS) for determining water content on the surface of the moon. NASA will outfit the Lunar...
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