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Osram helping NASA with its proprietary connected horticulture research lighting system Phytofy RL
Osram today announced that it is providing NASA with a customized version of its proprietary connected horticulture research lighting system, Phytofy RL. PHYTOFY RL is a tunable LED horticultural lighting system for research applications with real-time control and scheduling features for each individual channel. The calibrated system is capable of delivering light treatments with varying…
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LG Chem to supply batteries for NASA’s space suits
South Korea’s largest chemical company LG Chem will supply lithium-ion batteries for NASA’s spacesuits from the second half of the year. The contract with NASA marked the first such deal for a Korean company. LG Chem’s new battery’s lifespan is five times longer than conventional silver-zinc batteries that are used in military and aerospace industries.
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Robot astronaut Kirobo to return to Earth after spending 18 months aboard the International Space Station
Dentsu announced that robot astronaut Kirobo is scheduled to return to Earth on Feb. 11 after spending 18 months aboard the International Space Station. Developed in collaboration with the University of Tokyo’s Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, Robo Garage Co., Toyota Motor and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the 34-centimeter-tall Kirobo and…
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Corning Supplies Custom Optical Components to NASA for use in its OSIRIS-REx mission
Corning announced today the delivery of custom optical components to NASA for use in its OSIRIS-REx mission, the third mission in NASA’s New Frontiers Program. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will visit a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu, launching in 2016 and reaching the asteroid in 2018. After a detailed study, the spacecraft will obtain a sample and…
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Researchers detect the brightest flare ever observed in our galaxy’s black hole
As black holes go, Sagittarius A is relatively low-key. The black hole at the center of our galaxy emits very little energy for its size, giving off roughly as much energy as the sun, even though it is 4 billion times as massive. However, astronomers have observed that nearly once a day, the black hole…
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Sunita Williams and Akihiko Hoshide completed almost a record long spacewalk outside the ISS
NASA Flight Engineer Williams and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Flight Engineer Hoshide spent eight hours and 17 minutes in the outer space doing maintenance work on the ISS. It was the second spacewalk outside the ISS of the current station’s Expedition 32. The previous spacewalk was completed Aug 20 by Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and…
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NASA RXTE satellite retires after 16 years
On Dec. 30, 1995, NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) was launched into orbit on a mission to observe and study X-ray sources in space. For 16 years, the satellite circled Earth, detecting X-rays emitted by some of our galaxy’s most extreme phenomena: bursting pulsars, flaring neutron stars and massive, spinning black holes. The instruments…
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YouTube Space Lab Announces 60 Finalists in Competition to Send Students’ Experiments into Space
YouTube, Lenovo, and Space Adventures in cooperation with space agencies including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), today announced the sixty finalists of YouTube Space Lab , the global science competition that challenges 14-18 year-olds to design a science experiment that can…
