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Space Agency to speak about using thermography in Shuttle applications
… gov/ ) will present a paper at the annual InfraMation Conference in Las Vegas, NV, October 17-21, 2005. The Space Agency will discuss the use of infrared technology for an on-orbit reinforced carbon-carbon damage detection system to …
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ESA selects chip vendor to track the stars
The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded On Semiconductor (Phoenix, AZ, USA) a joint development contract for the next-generation star tracker …
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Imaging sensors launched into space
… 23rd March 2012, imaging sensors from e2v (Chelmsford, Essex, UK) were launched into space onboard the European Space Agency ’s (ESA) Edoardo Amaldi spacecraft, the third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) to be sent to the International …
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Miniaturizing laser radar systems for space
Researchers working on behalf of the European Space Agency are developing small 3-D imaging lidar (light detection and ranging) systems for use in space. Terrestrial imaging lidars …
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Naval Research Lab imager heads for the sun
… at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL; Washington, DC, USA) is to be launched into space as part of the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Solar Orbiter mission to study our sun. Using the so-called SoloHI instrument, which sports a lightweight …
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Space software saves Vatican books
… Vatican Library are being digitized to preserve them for future generations using a technique developed at the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA to store satellite images of the sky. The library needed a way of scanning the delicate old manuscripts …
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3-D camera streams live from space
A camera developed for the European Space Agency (ESA; Paris, France) has produced live-streaming 3-D images from the International Space Station (ISS) images for the …
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e2v sensors selected by Thales to equip Earth-observation satellite
… and subsystems, has been selected by Thales Alenia Space to provide the CCD image sensors to be used in the European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinel-3 Earth-observation satellite. Sentinel-3 is part of the Global Monitoring for Environment and …
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e2v to supply imaging sensors for GAIA space mission
… technology electronic components and subsystems, has been awarded the flight-phase contract to supply the European Space Agency (ESA) with CCD imaging sensors for the primary scientific instrument on its GAIA space mission. This contract is worth …
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e2v technologies wins image-sensor contract
… components and subsystems, has been awarded a £4.0 m (€5.6 m) flight phase contract to supply the ESA (European Space Agency ) with CCD (charge-coupled device) image sensors for the primary scientific instrument on the astronomical satellite …