January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... threats today in space could be cyber-attacks targeting ground communications terminals, wiping out command and control, or laser blinding remote sensing satellites flying over areas of interest and electric jamming of satellites. Other threats are...
12 February 2016
A scientific breakthrough as gravitational waves detected for the first time
... by researchers using the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). The discovery ...minutes of the binary's evolution, should be detectable with laser interferometric detectors, such as LIGO and the Virgo detector...
19 February 2016
Test Masses of ESA's LISA Pathfinder Released Successfully
... the spacecraft´s scientific instrument. The LISA Technology Package (LTP), which weighs around 150 kilograms, includes laser interferometers measuring changes in the distance between two precision-engineered gold/platinum test masses, each weighing...
07 June 2016
A green light for the LISA Pathfinder mission
...-masses due to disturbances much smaller than that expected from gravitational wave signals.” LISA, short for Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, is a fundamental technology mission aimed at testing the concept of low frequency gravitational wave...
20 July 2016
ESA open new laboratory in UK to test applications for future space missions
..., in this instance, will concentrate on building up parts layer by layer with powder or wire feedstock that is melted using a laser or electron beam source. 3D printed parts are slowly making an impact within spacecraft engineering and if the recent...
13 September 2017
New constellation to reshape Earth observation market
... that will be unrivalled in our industry for a long time.” The very high communication bandwidth possible with lasers – of up to 1.8 Gbit/s – means that up to 40 terabytes of data per day can be transmitted securely in quasi-real-time to Earth. This...
