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The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft that landed the Curiosity rover on Mars endured the hottest, most turbulent atmospheric entry ever attempted in a mission to the Red Planet. The saucer-shaped MSL was protected by a thin, lightweight carbon fibre-based heat-shield material that was a bit denser than balsa wood.The same material, dubbed PICA (Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator), also protected NASA's Stardust spacecraft as it returned ...

NASA and a Palo Alto-based satellite manufacturer are working to get a spacecraft to an asteroid before one gets to us.Asteroid exploration has become one of NASA's top goals, and Space Systems Loral will play a key role in an upcoming mission that will allow scientists to get research equipment to a unique asteroid to study its composition. It's the company's first major foray into the world of deep-space exploration.

A Modular Automotive Reference System (MARS) has been introduced by ON Semiconductorthat gives system and software developers a ready-to-use camera for research and development activities. The MARS platform enables users to reconfigure cameras with different lenses, image sensors, Image Signal Processors (ISPs) and communications options for rapid prototyping and experimentation.

AVX will deliver two technical presentations, teach a training seminar, and exhibit at the 21stannual Components for Military & Space Electronics Conference & Exhibition (CMSE 2017), which will take place April 11thto 13th, 2017 at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel in Los Angeles.

Kevin Marsh, who runs Essex-basedMarsh Metals, sees a lot to emulate inthe way Henry Ford ran his business.The American industrialist is Kevin’sinspiration as he develops his businessin a sector facing ongoing pressures. Marsh explains.

Researchers in the UK have developed a personalised and more effective approach to treating cancer patients with bone metastases.The team used radiobiological models to calculate the absorbed radiation doses needed to eradicate all the bone lesions in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC).They put forward a new model to predict the decrease in tumour size in patients treated with molecular radiotherapy.

Johns Hopkins University scientist Kirby Runyon wants to make one thing clear: Regardless of what one prestigious scientific organisation says to the contrary, Pluto is a planet. So is Europa, commonly known as a moon of Jupiter, and the Earth's moon, and more than 100 other celestial bodies in our solar system that are denied this status under a prevailing definition of "planet."

Researchers at ETHZurich and IBM ResearchZurich have built a tiny redox flow battery. This means that future computer chip stacks – in which individual chips are stacked like pancakes to save space and energy – could be supplied with electrical power and cooled at the same time by such integrated flow batteries. In a flow battery, an electrochemical reaction is used to produce electricity out of two liquid electrolytes, which are pump...

Thought your Internet speeds were slow? Try being a space scientist for a day.The vast distances involved will throttle data rates to a trickle. You're lucky if a spacecraft can send more than a few Mbps—a pittance even by dial-up standards.But we might be on the cusp of a change. Just as going from dial-up to broadband revolutionised the Internet and made high-resolution photos and streaming video a given, NASA may be ready to undergo a si...

When Richard Bruce and Gary Wendt, both professedly “geeks at heart,” assessed the medical imaging landscape in the early 2000s, they were astonished to find that nearly all medical images were being transferred between hospitals on compact discs rather than through the internet.That was old-school, and not in a good way, says Bruce, who had previously worked at the network giant Cisco Systems.