It’s been just over a year since Russia invaded Ukraine, and we’ve been looking at the role technology has played, from government apps repurposed for crowdsourced reconnaissance to wide-scale cyberattacks.
But space-based technology, largely from private companies, is also making a difference in Ukraine.
NASA's Quantum Detector Achieves World-Leading Milestone
This close-up photograph shows an exquisitely sensitive single Performance-Enhanced Array for Counting Optical Quanta (PEACOQ) detector, which is being developed at JPL to detect single photons – quantum particles of light – at an extremely high rate.
This photograph shows several PEACOQ detectors shortly after they'd been printed on a silicon wafer. The inset image shows the detail of a single PEACOQ. Each PEACOQ detector is a little smaller than a dime.
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Opinion: Invest In Technology To Make Deep Space Travel Feasible | Aviation Week Network
The technological challenges of transporting crews to deep space draw many parallels with the obstacles at the beginning of the Age of Discovery.
As plans and resources are being marshaled now to make these first sojourns out into the greater Solar System, however, we can begin to wonder what will come after these first and important steps. The wooden-ship era eventually gave way to the steam engine and the turbofan.
The Rise of China's Space Program
Two major events that proved China's space prowess are the Lunar lander rover, Chang'e 4 and the Mars lander rover, Tianwen-1.
China's Space Programme: From the Era of Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping by S Chandrashekhar provides a detailed account of the country's rise to become a space power worth reckoning.
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