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The European Space Components Coordination (ESCC) body has selected AEM's FM12 line of solid body fuses for inclusion in the European Preferred Parts List (EPPL).The FM12 series fuses, also included on the Defense Logistics Agency Qualified Products List (QPL), are intended for use in a wide variety of aerospace applications that require the highest level of reliability.

The basic characteristics of satellite IP communications differ from a typical fibre, cable or ADSL internet connection. Satellite links provided with geostationary satellites have significant latencies of 480 milliseconds and upwards. The variation in how long it takes data to get through is typically high (jitter) and throughput is dependent upon effective buffering mechanisms and buffer size in order to obtain expected bandwidth.

Satellite images of Earth’s plant life have been valuable for managing crops or detecting deforestation, but current methods are often contaminated by light reflected by other things like clouds, soil and snow. Now, researchers at Stanford and the Carnegie Institution for Science have unlocked the potential of decades-old satellites with a technological tweak to better isolate the signal from plants alone.

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."

Space is becoming ever more cluttered with defunct satellites, spent rocket boosters and sundry stray pieces after the first satellite was launched almost 60 years ago.

What is the most vulnerable component within an electronic design? Candidates would include anything with a moving part, such as a disk drive or fan, power supplies or fans which need strict control of temperature, and ICs which are sensitive to electrical noise.

The development of an NB-FPGA that incorporates NanoBridge metal atom migration-type switch technology has been announced by NEC and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), which utilises TIA, an open innovation hub operated by five institutes in Tsukuba and Tokyo.This original NEC product featuring high radiation tolerance is expected to contribute to the use of LSIs in space.

Designer and manufacturer of RF signal distribution equipment for satellite communications, ETL Systems, will showcase its new technologies in RF distribution at SATELLITE 2017.Among the technologies on display at the show will be ETL Systems’ new customisable RF matrices, the 64x64 Hurricane matrix router and the 128x128 Harrier matrix router, which is making its US show debut.

An EU team assessed various European satellite imaging systems for use in managing forest fires. All packages met consumer needs, but the project identified five especially applicable tools, while also helping develop future satellite systems.Uncontrollable fires affect forests of the Mediterranean region, causing soil erosion plus economic impacts. Global warming exacerbates the area's natural proneness to fire, hence the problems will only wors...

Inspired by origami, North Carolina State University researchers have found a way to remotely control the order in which a 2D sheet folds itself into a 3D structure."A longstanding challenge in the field has been finding a way to control the sequence in which a2Dsheet will fold itself into a3Dobject," says Michael Dickey, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at NC State and co-corresponding author of a paper describing the work.