"While it is better to be safe than sorry, especially with the health of astronauts, sometimes the costs of repeatedly taking unnecessary action to protect a satellite network could prove more costly than the potential space-weather damage itself." Space weather is listed as one of the biggest ...
WASHINGTON, March 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. space agency NASA said Wednesday it's moving ahead with a long-term demonstration of laser communications that eventually "could become the high-speed internet of the sky." The mission, known as Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) and scheduled...
WASHINGTON, March 22 (Xinhua) -- U.S. space agency NASA said Wednesday it's moving ahead with a long-term demonstration of laser communications that eventually "could become the high-speed internet of the sky." The mission, known as Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) and scheduled...
Therefore, it is necessary to operate key photonic components in space to achieve a technology readiness level of 7 and beyond. Accordingly, the International Space Station (ISS) provides an invaluable test bed for qualifying such components for space missions.A. Joshi...
Now that the International Space Station is operational, it is time to enhance its customer base, productivity, and value. Most commercially relevant research is highly iterative. An ISS enhancement that may radically boost the productivity and value of most iterative research is regular weekly return...
Views of Starship Flight 6 from International Space Station NASA has shared a cool snippet of video captured from the International Space Station (ISS) that shows the recent SpaceX launch of the Starship, the world’s most powerful rocket. ...
The space station just had to steer clear of more space junk The International Space Station (ISS) had to steer clear of a piece of space junk on Monday -- the second such maneuver that the orbital outpost has had to make in a week. ...
documents with more than 50 countries and international organizations. Meanwhile, Chinese companies have carried out cooperation projects on the China Space Station platform and under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative, in the fields of space scientific exploration and satellite data services...
In an effort to achieve the maximum possible speed, aerodynamic drag was eliminated wherever possible. There were no radiator or oil cooler intakes. The wing surfaces were constructed of two thin layers of duralumin with a very small space between them. The engine coolant, a mixture of water ...
Experimental verification of fiber coupling characteristics for FSO downlinks from the International Space Station Free-space optical (FSO) systems are compulsory to realize high capacity and interference-free communication links from low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite con... PV Trinh,DR Kolev,Shiratama,...