TECH SPACE - ROBO DAILY

Astroscale Ships ELSA-d Spacecraft to Launch Site

Dec 22, 2020 (SPX)

"Shipment is always a significant milestone on any satellite development program," said Gene Fujii, Astroscale Chief Engineer. "We have officially moved from th...

Virtual idols take to the real-life stage in China

Dec 22, 2020 (AFP)

On Saturday "Amy" won a breakthrough virtual talent show in China, where computer-generated entertainers perform in front of real-life judges and tens of millio...

Exotrail secures French government support to develop propulsion technologies for small GEO satellites

Dec 17, 2020 (SPX)

When operating in geostationary orbit, small satellites face unique constraints not served by the market today. With this programme called PROXIMA, Exotrail wil...

Apollo Fusion propulsion systems selected by Saturn Satellite Networks

Dec 17, 2020 (SPX)

Saturn selected Apollo Fusion because Apollo's unique Electric Propulsion system supports the Saturn objectives to enable its NationSat small GEO sats to perfor...

Graduate student's BADASS code has astronomical benefits

Dec 17, 2020 (SPX)

Called BADASS, which stands for Bayesian AGN Decomposition Analysis for SDSS Spectra, the code in its current form fits astronomical spectra of active galactic ...

Unibap becomes a member of AWS Partner Network for SpaceCloud

Dec 16, 2020 (SPX)

The collaboration will allow customers to access AWS services and capabilities in the space environment for autonomous edge processing and event handling. The c...

NASA releases best practices handbook to help improve space safety

Dec 16, 2020 (SPX)

Emerging commercial ventures, such as satellite servicing, in-space manufacturing, and tourism, as well as new technologies enabling small satellites and large ...

Microchip adds COTS 64Mbit flash memory device to its radiation-tolerant lineup

Dec 16, 2020 (SPX)

Microchip Technology Inc. has announced a radiation-tolerant, 64 Megabit (Mbit) parallel-interface SuperFlash memory device with unrivaled Total Ionizing Dose (...

MIT to use the ISS to test smart, electronic textiles for use in spacesuits and spacecraft

Dec 15, 2020 (SPX)

The MIT team will embed sensor fibers into conventional spacesuit materials and expose them to the extreme elements of space outside of the International Space ...

One ring to bind them all

Dec 10, 2020 (ESA)

The Launch Interface Rings by Additive Manufacturing, LIRAM project took place with Belgian companies Sonaca, CRM and SIRRIS, supported through ESA's General Su...

Germany opens competition probe into Facebook VR headsets

Dec 10, 2020 (AFP)

"Future use of new Oculus glasses should not be possible solely on condition that one has a Facebook account," said watchdog head Andreas Mundt. "This link betw...

Rocket engine 3D parts survive 23 hot-fire tests

Dec 09, 2020 (SPX)

Through a series of hot-fire tests in November, NASA demonstrated that two additively manufactured engine components - a copper alloy combustion chamber and noz...

Marines to join U.S., British military branches for video game tournament

Dec 09, 2020 (UPI)

Six members of the Marines' Quick Reaction Force, chosen from 70 volunteers, will participate against U.S. Amy, Navy, Air Force and Space Force personnel, as we...

New XLAB facility enhances Aerospace's prototyping capabilities

Dec 09, 2020 (SPX)

The 12,000-square-foot space includes a Prototype Design Center, Electronics Testing Lab, Fabrication Lab, Assembly and Integration Lab, as well as open office ...

DoD to adopt flight simulation program for ordinary computers

Dec 08, 2020 (UPI)

According to Air Force Lt. Col. Eric Frahm, the Joint Immersive Training System, or JTS isn't meant to replace simulators or real-time flying but to augment the...

Lincoln Laboratory is designing a payload to integrate on Japanese satellites

Dec 07, 2020 (SPX)

Over the past 30 years, the United States has developed an extensive network of optical and radar sensors that provide observations to enable SDA. As other coun...

New Data Confirm 2020 SO to be the Upper Centaur Rocket Booster from the 1960's

Dec 03, 2020 (JPL)

The object, discovered in September by astronomers searching for near-Earth asteroids from the NASA-funded Pan-STARRS1 survey telescope on Maui, garnered intere...

RUDN University professor suggested how to clean up space debris

Dec 03, 2020 (SPX)

These modules will attach to space debris objects and move them away. As for the geostationary orbit, a preferable way to clean it up would be a towing spacecra...

Microchip offer Low-Power Radiation-Tolerant PolarFire FPGA ahead of spaceflight qualification

Dec 03, 2020 (SPX)

Designers can now create hardware prototypes with all the same electrical and mechanical performance that the space-qualified RT PolarFire FPGAs will provide fo...

Stanford engineers combine light and sound to see underwater

Dec 01, 2020 (SPX)

The researchers envision their hybrid optical-acoustic system one day being used to conduct drone-based biological marine surveys from the air, carry out large-...