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NASA to Support the ESA's Efforts on Gravitational Wave Observatory
PARIS, Feb. 6, 2024 — NASA will collaborate with the European Space Agency (ESA) on a space-based observatory designed to detect gravitational waves. The ESA formally adopted the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to its mission lineup, with launch slated for 2035. Construction of the instruments and spacecraft will begin in 2025 once a European industrial contractor has been selected, the ESA said.
NASA to Test Deep-Space Laser Communication on Psyche Mission
WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 9, 2023 — NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications project will test the use of near-infrared lasers as potential replacements for the current radio frequency systems. The technology demonstration, scheduled to piggyback on the Psyche mission launching...
Jane Rigby Named Webb Telescope Senior Scientist: People in the News: 07/05/23
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 5, 2023 — NASA named Jane Rigby as the new senior project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope mission. Rigby is an astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Rigby was one of the three commissioning scientists for Webb. She also led...
Rubin Observatory Ready for Optics: Week in Brief: 05/12/23
LUXEMBOURG, May 12, 2023 — Space optical communications developer TESAT partnered with EAGLE-1 consortium lead SES, a provider of ground and satellite operations, to develop and integrate the Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) payload for the EAGLE-1 satellite. Supported by the...
Large-Aperture Metalens Images Lunar Surface
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., March 8, 2023 — Researchers at Penn State have developed a metalens that is large enough to be put into a telescope, and used the optic to image the moon's surface. The metalens, which the researchers used to create a metalens telecscope instrument, works in the...
Lumotive Sees Investment; Kopin Restructures Via Partial Unit Spinout: Week in Brief 01/06/23
SEATTLE, Jan. 6, 2023 — Sensor technology company Lumotive secured additional funding from new investors USAA and Uniquest in a $13 million round of strategic funding led by Samsung Ventures, bringing the total amount raised to date to more than $56 million. Lumotive will...
Webb’s Exoplanet Observations Demonstrate Telescope's Strengths
WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 12, 2022 — NASA’s James Webb Telescope has captured the first clear evidence for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside out solar system, shortly after taking its first image of an exoplanet. The observations made with the powerful infrared...
NASA Reveals First Exoplanet Images Taken by Webb Telescope
WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 6, 2022 — Astronomers have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to take a direct image of a planet outside our solar system. The image, shown through four different light filters, demonstrates how the telescope’s infrared capabilities can lead...
Contreras Fire Reaches Kitt Peak National Observatory
TUCSON, Ariz., June 21, 2022 — The Contreras Fire, which began June 11 about eight miles south of the Kitt Peak National Observatory, has destroyed four nonscientific structures related to the observatory. According to a release Sunday afternoon from the National Optical Infrared...
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...
Holographic Space Telescope Takes Aim at the Next 'Planet Earth'
TROY, N.Y., Oct. 27, 2021 — To support the discovery of planets outside the solar system, scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) created an experimental space telescope that can directly analyze the spectra of an exoplanet. The main component of the Dual Use...
Photonics News: Week in Brief: 07/30/21
Jul 30, 2021 — CHICAGO — AKHAN Semiconductor reported it has demonstrated the ability to manufacture 300-mm CMOS diamond wafers. The technology has the potential to enhance power handling, heat management, and the durability of electronics across industries...
Method Measures Loss of Signal in Far-Infrared Instruments
UTRECHT, Netherlands, July 15, 2021 — Scientists from SRON and TU Delft have developed a method to measure the signal loss in far-infrared instruments, designing a signal-carrying so-called microstrip for DESHIMA-2, a far-infrared instrument for the Atacama Submillimeter Telescope...
Ultrafast Time-of-Flight Imaging Combats Telescopes' Stray Light Problem
LIEGE, Belgium, May 31, 2021 — Researchers at Centre Spatial de Liege (CSL) of the University of Liege have advanced the field of space engineering through a newly developed, laser-based method for the identification of the contributors and origins of stray light on space...
Adaptive Optics Keep an Eye on Space Junk
CANBERRA, Australia, May 12, 2021 — Researchers at Australian National University (ANU) have employed an artificial guide star to bring objects orbiting Earth into focus. The approach may help mitigate risks from space debris. The guide star laser is a tool in adaptive optics, a field...
Optical Method Clocks Expansion of Universe
ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 28, 2021 — Researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of Hawaii Institute of Astronomy proposed an optical method that uses the light from quasars to determine the rate of the universe’s expansion. The method, the researchers said, is...
Metamaterial Tiles Perform in Vast Temperature Range, Support Highly Sensitive Measurements
WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 29, 2021 — Metamaterial tiles are poised to improve the sensitivity of telescopes currently under development at Simons Observatory in Chile. A multi-institutional team created the tiles, which have been rigorously tested and incorporated into the receivers of...
Habitable Exoplanets to Be Studied with Help of AI and Photonics
SYDNEY, Oct. 23, 2020 — Researchers from the University of Sydney developed a sensor capable of correcting the distortion of starlight caused by heat variations in Earth’s atmosphere. The sensor would allow ground-based telescopes to study habitable exoplanets. The...
ESA Declares CHEOPS Space Telescope Ready for Operation
BERN, Switzerland, April 20, 2020 — The CHEOPS space telescope was declared ready for space exploration by the European Space Agency (ESA) late last month and has begun collecting observations of known exoplanet-hosting stars. The telescope is a joint mission between the ESA and...
Scientists Analyze Final Images from Cassini
LANCASTER, England, Jan. 15, 2020 — Toward the completion of its 13-year mission, which ended in September 2017, the Cassini spacecraft performed a set of orbits that brought it closer to Saturn than ever before. By passing over the planet’s polar regions at a low altitude,...
Neural Networks Train Lasers to Spot Space Junk
BEIJING, Dec. 31, 2019 — A set of algorithms for laser ranging telescopes, developed by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping and the Liaoning Technical University, is improving the success rate of space debris detection in Earth’s orbit by...
Hubble Shows Universe Expanding Faster than Expected
BALTIMORE, April 30, 2019 — New measurements from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope show that the universe is expanding about 9% faster than expected. A team led by professor Adam Riess at Johns Hopkins University used a new method, called DASH for Drift and Shift, for capturing...
New Camera Used to Measure Mass and Radius of Old Star
SHEFFIELD, England, April 16, 2019 — Scientists at the University of Sheffield have used HiPERCAM, a high-speed, multicolor camera that is capable of taking more than 1000 images per second, to measure both the mass and the radius of an old star (also called a cool subdwarf star) for...
Event Horizon Telescope Captures First Image of a Black Hole
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 10, 2019 — The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) captured the first picture of a black hole by using its eight ground-based radio telescopes to produce an image of the center of a massive galaxy 55 million light-years away.
Gravitational Lensing Magnifies Light of Quasar from Extremely Distant Space and Time
HILO, Hawaii, Jan. 11, 2019 — Observations from Gemini Observatory have identified a key fingerprint of an extremely distant quasar, allowing astronomers to sample light emitted from the beginning of time. Astronomers happened upon this deep glimpse into space and time thanks to...
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