Aerospace & Defence

A series of new patented IHM (Integrated Health Monitoring) Aerospace Proximity Sensors for harsh duty aircraft applications are now available in Europe through TTI. The IHM Series are non-contact devices designed to sense the presence or absence of a target, providing on/off output, plus they can also be configured with an optional health monitoring output to the host system.

Once upon a time there lived, Snow White and the seven dwarfs. But now, NASA may have discovered the real-life version - TRAPPIST-1 and the seven planets. It turns out that life may have been discovered 39 light years away, as this week NASA has made the announcement that seven new earth size planets have been discovered. Previously scientists have only found a tiny number of ‘exoplanets’ which are believed to have the qualities ...

A quick and easy EMI filter solution for meeting strict military and aerospace interference standards can save a lot of time and money, reports Sally Ward-Foxton.

A quick and easy EMI filter solution for meeting strict military and aerospace interference standards can save a lot of time and money, reports Sally Ward-Foxton.

NASA are using X-ray emitters for a super-fast communications system. Electronic Specifier writer Rachel Oliver explains.

The efficient interaction of electronic components and their environment plays an important role in development of products for space. Art of Technology supports companies and universities optimising electronic designs to save both size and weight. Written by Paul Sphikas, Sales & Marketing Manager, Art of Technology AG

  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.

A team of researchers from around the world is getting ready to create what might be the first image of a black hole. The project is the result of collaboration between teams manning radio receivers around the world and a team at MIT that will assemble the data from the other teams and hopefully create an image. The project has been ongoing for approximately 20 years as project members have sought to piece together what has now become known ...

For the first time, astronomers from MIT and elsewhere have observed a star pulsing in response to its orbiting planet. The star, which goes by the name HAT-P-2, is about 400 light years from Earth and is circled by a gas giant measuring eight times the mass of Jupiter — one of the most massive exoplanets known today. The planet, named HAT-P-2b, tracks its star in a highly eccentric orbit, flying extremely close to and around the star,...

A NASA technologist has teamed with the inventor of a nanotechnology that could transform the way space scientists build spectrometers, the all-important device used by virtually all scientific disciplines to measure the properties of light emanating from astronomical objects, including Earth itself.