X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

If you’re in Seattle within sight of the Space Needle this Friday night, look up toward the Needle around 7:30 p.m. and you’ll see colorful lasers washing over Seattle’s skies. These lasers ...

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Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Despite six years and trillions of pulses, the laser remains in excellent condition, according to Anthony Martino, an instrument scientist at NASA’s Goddard ...

Deep Space Optical Communication (DSOC) offers a solution by using near-infrared laser technology to achieve ... uses smaller apertures instead of RF antenna arrays, leading to lower-cost ground ...

Since its inception in the late 19th century, RF antenna development has been driven by events such as the Second World War and the space race, and its ongoing evolution has leveraged advances in ...

Abstract: FIRI (Far Infra-Red Interferometer) is a spatial and spectral space interferometer with an operating wavelength range of 25–400 μm and sub-arcsecond angular resolution. It is based on the ...

Phase alignment of the signals can be disrupted by turbulence in the troposphere, which causes fluctuations in the differences of signal delays among the antennas. At the Deep Space Network stations, ...