TECH SPACE - SKY NIGHTLY

Amateur astronomers play a part in efforts to keep space safe

Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)

Amateur astronomers from the Basingstoke Astronomical Society have been helping the Ministry of Defence explore what is possible using high-end consumer equipme...

First observation of native ferroelectric metal

Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)

The study represents the first example of a native metal with bistable and electrically switchable spontaneous polarization states - the hallmark of ferroelectr...

Gene-editing enzymes imaged in 3D

Jul 08, 2019 (UPI)

The breakthrough -- described Monday in the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology -- helped scientists see exactly how the gene-editing technology cal...

RUBI - Full steam ahead for the ISS

Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is set to install RUBI in the Columbus module of the ISS during his five-month 'Beyond' mission (from July to December 2019). The f...

BAE nets $4.7M by DARPA to integrate machine learning into RF signals detection

Jul 08, 2019 (UPI)

The technology will be used in platforms to decipher the signals, BAE said in a news release Monday. Signals intelligence, or SIGINT, provides to the military a...

The world needs a global agenda for sand

Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)

In a commentary published in the journal Nature, a group of scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Illinois, the University of Hu...

Molecular thumb drives: Researchers store digital images in metabolite molecules

Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)

A study led by Brown University researchers shows that it's possible to store and retrieve data stored in artificial metabolomes - arrays of liquid mixtures con...

Would your mobile phone be powerful enough to get you to the moon?

Jul 05, 2019 (The Conversation)

This seems surprising. After all, when we reflect on this historic event, it is often said that we now have more computing power in our pocket than the computer...

ATLAS expands on-orbit customer base, bolsters global ground network

Jul 03, 2019 (SPX)

ATLAS is tasked with providing ground station operations as well as telemetry, command, and data support for both BlackSky and NOAA's newly deployed satellites....

ThinKom completes technology validation on Telesat low-earth orbit satellite

Jul 03, 2019 (SPX)

ThinKom's Ka2517 antenna successfully acquired, tracked and maintained seamless end-to-end connectivity with the Telesat LEO satellite. Full-duplex throughput d...

Space Weather causes years of radiation damage to satellites using electric propulsion

Jul 02, 2019 (SPX)

The new research by British Antarctic Survey, University of Cambridge, and DH Consultancy - published this month in the journal Space Weather - is being present...

ESA studying radiation impacts of hardware and humans

Jul 02, 2019 (ESA)

Space radiation passes through matter and penetrates the human body. Energetic particles impact living tissues, impairing normal function of cells and even kill...

China unveils cloud-tech platform to serve commercial space industry

Jul 01, 2019 (XNA)

The Space Cloud Cubic platform launched Wednesday in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, is developed to provide comprehensive solutions to various part...

Researchers verify 70-year-old theory of turbulence in fluids

Jul 01, 2019 (SPX)

A collaboration between researchers at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and University of Queensland, Australia, set out to learn more about the everyday e...

First taste of space for Spacebus Neo satellite

Jun 28, 2019 (ESA)

These enormous test chambers, which can be cooled to minus 180 Celsius, are designed to accommodate an entire spacecraft and effectively replicate the extreme t...

Mimicking the ultrastructure of wood with 3D-printing

Jun 28, 2019 (SPX)

Through emulating the natural cellular architecture of wood, they now present the ability to create green products derived from trees, with unique properties - ...

Half of Indian Anti-Satellite Test Debris Still Orbiting in Space - Harvard Astronomer

Jun 28, 2019 (Sputnik)

Three months after India conducted an anti-satellite test in which it "shot down" a low-orbiting satellite, the 41 pieces of debris generated in the process rem...

Machine Learning Tool Searches Star Data for Likely Exoplanet Hosts

Jun 27, 2019 (SPX)

"My viewing habits have trained Netflix to recommend sci-fi movies I might like - based on what I've already watched. These watched movies are like the known st...

Researchers see around corners to detect object shapes

Jun 24, 2019 (SPX)

The researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Toronto and University College London said this technique enables them to reconstruct images ...

Raytheon awarded $96.6M for Silent Knight Radar system

Jun 24, 2019 (UPI)

The contract modification increases the ceiling to $300 million for continued low-rate initial production of the radar system for rotary and fixed-wing aircraft...