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How Carbon Fiber Composites Are Made—and What Their Grades Mean
Read more →: How Carbon Fiber Composites Are Made—and What Their Grades MeanA carbon fiber tow has its own strength and modulus, but it is not yet a structural material…
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Why Does Voltage Drop Along a Wire but Current Doesn’t?
Read more →: Why Does Voltage Drop Along a Wire but Current Doesn’t?Related reading: How Do Engineers Choose Satellite Cables? In a DC power branch operating steadily, the voltage between…
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The In-Orbit Remote Sensing Pipeline
Read more →: The In-Orbit Remote Sensing PipelineKey Insight An in-orbit processing pipeline essentially takes a ground-based data center apart and fits its functions inside…
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What Unusual Ideas Have Engineers Proposed to Recover Rockets?
Read more →: What Unusual Ideas Have Engineers Proposed to Recover Rockets?Engineers have long wanted to make space launches less expensive. Half a century ago, however, cost was rarely…
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What are Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO) for satellites?
Read more →: What are Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO) for satellites?Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO) are the coordinated maneuvers and control activities that bring one spacecraft near another…
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How AI Detects Flood Changes Across Optical and SAR Images With Few Training Pairs
Read more →: How AI Detects Flood Changes Across Optical and SAR Images With Few Training PairsIn brief: Instead of separately mapping water in pre- and post-flood images and then overlaying the results, the…
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Every Unit Passed EMC Testing. Why Test the Whole Satellite?
Read more →: Every Unit Passed EMC Testing. Why Test the Whole Satellite?The onboard computer runs normally on its own. The receiver passes its sensitivity test. The power controller, reaction…
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From Recovery Milestones to Routine Reuse: What Falcon 9 Can Teach China’s Reusable Rocket Industry
Read more →: From Recovery Milestones to Routine Reuse: What Falcon 9 Can Teach China’s Reusable Rocket IndustryAs the launch industry demands lower costs, higher flight rates and greater scale, reusability is making rockets function…
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China’s AI-GeoMapping System Guides 400-Square-Kilometer Gobi Survey
Read more →: China’s AI-GeoMapping System Guides 400-Square-Kilometer Gobi SurveyChina’s AI-GeoMapping system has guided 400 square kilometers of 1:50,000-scale regional geological mapping in northern Alxa, Inner Mongolia,…
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Commercial, Industrial, Standard Military and Space: What These Component Labels Mean, and Where CAST and SAST Parts Lists Fit In
Read more →: Commercial, Industrial, Standard Military and Space: What These Component Labels Mean, and Where CAST and SAST Parts Lists Fit InA supplier describes a chip as “space grade.” A procurement specialist wants to know whether it appears on…
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Can Optical Satellites Keep Tracking Floods When Clouds Block the View?
Read more →: Can Optical Satellites Keep Tracking Floods When Clouds Block the View?In brief: Landsat and Sentinel-2 can capture flood details well, but they are most vulnerable to the very…
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From Imaging to Intelligence: How Smart Remote-Sensing Satellites Are Changing the Market
Read more →: From Imaging to Intelligence: How Smart Remote-Sensing Satellites Are Changing the MarketSeveral smart remote-sensing satellites have recently been launched in China and other countries, entering a rapidly expanding applications…