04 September 2020
Rocket Lab secretly launches its first own designed and built satellite
...on orbit, Rocket Lab is building up flight heritage for future Photon satellite missions planned to low Earth orbit, the Moon, and ..., Rocket Lab will use the Electron rocket and Photon Lunar spacecraft to launch NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning ...
March 2015
SERC wants us all to get to grips with space junk
... difference between SERC and other [e.g. USAF] efforts in this domain is that SERC tracking technology is entirely based on photonics technologies. SERC has a mandate to develop new technology for space debris risk mitigation, in two parallel phases...
20 October 2017
NASA Psyche mission to use laser communication
... laser transceiver onboard Psyche as a telescope," Biswas explains, able to receive and transmit laser light in precisely timed photon bursts. The DSOC is being hailed as a ‘game-changing’ technology and its development phase was funded by NASA...
09 October 2017
New telescope attachment helps find exoplanets
.... The attachment, which was created by Penn State astronomers, in close collaboration with the nanofabrication labs at RPC Photonics in New York, spreads incoming light across an image with a carefully structured micro-optic device to minimise...
08 May 2019
Tests start on first design of 'wafer scale' spacecraft
... here,” added Rupert. This slim, round disk, no bigger than a flattened muffin case, is being developed to use photonic technologies, I.e lasers, to propel it through space at relativistic speeds – a similar concept that has been proposed for the...
March 2018
Exploring the extreme universe
...to the study of the non-thermal Universe in the gamma-ray photon energy range from 0.3 MeV to 3 GeV (six to nine orders... Galaxy due to interaction with molecular clouds is also a source of photons in the MeV range, and e-ASTROGAM will be in the best ...
