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On February 18th, NASA successfully landed the Perseverance Rover on Mars. This isn’t the first Mars mission, but it was the first time that the entry, descent, and landing of a spacecraft was filmed and broadcasted live for the public to watch and virtually participate in. Six FLIR machine vision …

A two-year contract awarded to ABB from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory will see key ABB/Nüvü Caméras technology fly onboard the space telescope in 2025, on course to capture the first spaceborne images of planets outside our solar system. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA’s future space observatory, is due …

NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, Mars Perseverance Rover was launched on 30 July 2020 and will touch down on Mars on 18 February 2021.  Designed to be the most sophisticated rover NASA has built, the Mars Perseverance Rover will use advanced systems to explore the diverse geological landscape, discover ancient habitats, …

Smiths Interconnect was recently awarded a contract by Boeing to design, manufacture and supply bespoke connectors for use aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft and Lunar Gateway. Smiths Interconnect’s docking umbilical connectors will be used to transfer power, signal and communications to different modules on the space station. “These connectors have to …

Dewesoft’s KRYPTON ONE is the world’s smallest single-channel data acquisition module for field testing in harsh environments. This award-winning DAQ system will survive extreme temperatures, water spray or submersion, high shock and extreme vibrations. Dewesoft has just announced that KRYPTON ONE was selected for PRODUCT OF THE MONTH award by NASA Tech Briefs. …

FUTEK Advanced Sensor Technology has congratulated the NASA/JPL team on their extraordinary success in managing the Mars Exploration Rovers Opportunity and Spirit since their initial Mars landing in January 2004.  While FUTEK was not a part of these early Rovers, the company appreciates the extraordinary efforts of the JPL team …

DTS (Diversified Technical Systems) has been awarded two Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contracts to develop miniature data acquisition systems for flight crew safety testing by both the US Air Force Research Lab and NASA. DTS was selected for each project based on their expertise in test and measurement solutions …

The International Space Station isn’t the only spacecraft orbiting the Earth. In fact, it is accompanied by the Hubble Space Telescope, satellites within the Earth Observing System, and more than 1,000 other operational spacecraft and CubeSats. In addition to spacecraft, bits of orbital debris – human-made objects no longer serving …