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BepiColombo takes its best images yet of Mercury’s peppered landscape – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

Identifying anomalous operations of satellites is more than a technical task. It must depend on human intelligence gathering and advance warning.  Missile launch detection and characterization is a longstanding example of how to overcome similar challenges. It is widely known that the United States operates high altitude satellites that perceive infrared emissions from rocket engines.

The internet could not exist without information theory Mehmet BAYSAN / Alamy The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the universe. You can sign up for Lost in Space-Time

Taking the leap – how to prepare for your future in the quantum workforce – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

TAMPA, Fla. — European small satellite maker Aerospacelab announced the opening of its first manufacturing facility in the United States Sept. 5 amid efforts to break into the lucrative U.S. government market. The company sees the potential for contracts that would enable the 3,300 square-meter facility in Torrance, California, to reach a capacity to produce an

A little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) with white-nose syndrome, which has ravaged bat populations across the US piemags/FWL / Alamy Stock Photo The decline of bats in the US due to the spread of a fungal disease reduced farmers’ earnings and led to an additional 1300 deaths in children under 1 year old, a study

Hybrid quantum–classical computing chips and neutral-atom qubits both show promise – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

ARLINGTON, Va. — Two SpaceX-built satellites successfully exchanged data using optical communications terminals in a milestone for the U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA), the agency’s director Derek Tournear said Sept. 4. The satellites, part of SDA’s Tranche 0 experimental spacecraft in low Earth orbit, used laser terminals manufactured by Tesat-Spacecom to communicate. This marks the

After any problem with a rocket launch or mission, experts echo the same refrain: space is hard. As progress in the space industry accelerates, that mantra is becoming more relevant, not less, but that is because we are facing the difficulties of space flight more frequently – and, largely, overcoming them. The situation unfolding on

Twisted fibres capture more water from fog – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

TAMPA, Fla. — Canadian geostationary operator Telesat has sold off Infosat Communications, a remote satellite services specialist, to bolster finances as investments in its low Earth orbit (LEO) Lightspeed constellation ramp up.  Calgary, Canada-based connectivity integrator Network Innovations said Sept. 3 it acquired the company from Telesat for an undisclosed sum, expanding its team by about

As you read this sentence, an army of cells patrols your brain. These soldiers slip around neurons, using their gangly appendages to search for threats. If one of them detects a pathogen or injury, it springs into action. Swelling up and descending in a voracious attack, it releases chemicals that signal for its comrades to

Estonia becomes first Baltic state to join CERN – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

WASHINGTON — OHB and investment firm KKR have received all the government approvals needed for a deal that will take the space company off the public markets in the coming days. OHB announced Aug. 27 that it received the final regulatory approvals for a deal announced a little more than a year ago where KKR

A replica of the Welcome Stranger, a gold nugget weighing almost 100 kilograms found in Australia in 1869 Ian Dagnall/Alamy Earthquakes may cause gold nuggets to form in quartz by generating an electric field that attracts gold dissolved in fluid forced up from deep underground. Enormous gold nuggets are often associated with quartz, a ubiquitous

Metasurface makes thermal sources emit laser-like light – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright © 2024 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors Read the original article here

WASHINGTON — General Dynamics Mission Systems, a unit of defense contractor General Dynamics, has been awarded a $491 million contract extension by the Space Development Agency for satellite ground systems, the Pentagon announced Aug. 30. The modification nearly doubles the company’s existing contract with the Space Development Agency (SDA) to approximately $900 million through 2029.

A high-altitude balloon launched by the US Army Pacific in the Philippines in 2022 as part of an exercise to strengthen cooperation between the two nations The US military is planning to launch balloons that are capable of providing high-altitude surveillance. It comes after the nation scrambled fighter jets to shoot down a Chinese balloon