April 2021
Satellites in the cloud: data from orbit
...thereby increasing the consumption of cloud services, whether for compute, storage or network capabilities. In mid-2019, Descartes Labs built the first system on the TOP500 fastest supercomputers list to run completely on public cloud resources. Soon...
July 2021
Canadarm2 - 20 years of Canadian space robotics on the ISS
... operating the Station’s new robotic arm from the US Lab module and Hadfield in the Shuttle, the ‘handshake in space’... took place. Canadarm2, based on the US Lab module, picked up the structure in which it had ridden to orbit and...
July 2021
Nitrous oxide – a green propellant for commercial space exploration
... the Mark-III resistojet at the United States Air Force Research Lab at Edwards Air Force Base, in 1998, it was noticed ... expulsion from storage tanks. In support of this concept, lab tests were conducted to explore the self-pressurisation feature of ...
February 2022
FPGA computing reaches new heights
... The ADK-VA600 will be a commercial grade board for lab development, but laid out in full 6U Space VPX form... or no redesign required. Customers will be able to prototype with the lab board, and then either move onto their own design to meet their ...
January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... and applications. Chinese scientists working on experimental cabinets, eight of which are installed inside Mengtian, the second lab module of China’s space station. They support in-orbit experiments on fluids, materials, combustion and basic physics...
February 2023
How to grow plants in a spacecraft
...is a researcher at the University of Paris-Saclay at IDEST lab (Institut Droit, Espaces, Technologies; the Institute of Law, Space...agri-food sector. They carried out this work at IDEST lab under the supervision of Dr Agnès Ricroch. Acknowledgments The...
