Aerospace & Defence

Showcasing the functionality of ePTFE technology, W. L. Gore & Associates, will be featuring products from both GOREMilitary Fabrics and GORE Cables and Materials at 2016 AUSA, 3-5th October, Washington, D.C., Booth 2733.

The successful Juno spacecraft mission has so far included its orbit insertion at Jupiter, and the mission will soon be turning towards the data collection phase. After an almost five year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, the spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit.

Most of us will be familiar with the error message ‘No GPS signal’ on our smartphones and satellite navigation systems. We may think loosing our GPS signal is a matter of life and death, but for the military and the emergency services it really could be the difference between life and death.

  The founder of RF SOI (silicon on insulator) and pioneer of advanced RF solutions, Peregrine Semiconductor Group and e2v have introduced the PE97640, an ultra-low phase noise FRAC-N Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) for commercial space applications. 

The European Space Agency’s satellite Gaia is now delivering its first results after having travelled around the sun for more than two years. The goal is to draw up a whole new map of the Milky Way, showing where the billion different stars are located and how they move. Lennart Lindegren, Professor of Astronomy at the Faculty of Science at Lund University in Sweden, helped launch the Gaia project 23 years ago.

Cislunar Explorers, a team of Cornell University students guided by Mason Peck, a former senior official at NASA and associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is attempting to boldly go where no CubeSat team has gone before: around the moon. Not only is Peck's group attempting to make a first-ever moon orbit with a satellite no bigger than a cereal box, made entirely with off-the-shelf materials, it's doing so with propell...

The first catalogue of more than a billion stars from ESA’s Gaia satellite was published – the largest all-sky survey of celestial objects to date. On its way to assembling the most detailed 3D map ever made of our Milky Way galaxy, Gaia has pinned down the precise position on the sky and the brightness of 1142 million stars. As a taster of the richer catalogue to come in the near future, the release also features the distan...

A small asteroid designated 2016 RB1 safely flew past Earth September 8th at 10:20am PDT (1:20pm EDT/17:20 UTC) at a distance of about 25,000 miles (40,000 kilometers, or just less than 1/10th the distance of Earth to the moon). Because the asteroid's orbit carried it below (or over) Earth's south pole, it did not pass within the orbits of communication or weather satellites.

ESA and Arianespace have signed a contract to secure the launch of the Aeolus satellite. With this milestone, a better understanding of Earth’s winds is another step closer. The contract, worth €32.57m, was signed at ESA headquarters in Paris, France, by ESA’s Director of Earth Observation Programmes, Josef Aschbacher, and CEO of Arianespace, Stéphane Israël.

An SUV-sized spacecraft, loaded with instruments and an extendable robotic arm, will soon be barreling toward a space rock, on a round-trip journey that promises to return an unprecedented souvenir: extraterrestrial soil, taken directly from an asteroid, that could hold clues to the very early universe.