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#Space Science Develooment

#NASA | CAPSTONE | Blazing path for Gateway, lunar space station

#Boeing | Starliner | Spacecraft

#Mecademic | Robotic arm | Assembling delicate aerospace electronics | Performing quality inspections | Testing, precision-machine small components | Micro manipulating extraterrestrial materials

#Institute of Space Systems | Technical University Braunschweig, Germany | Large scale, on-orbit additive manufacturing and assembly

#Institute for Space Technology | Technical University Berlin, Germany | Large scale, on-orbit additive manufacturing and assembly

#NASA Johnson Space Centre | Rocket manufacturing | Mecademic | Robot arm | Additive technology | Printing structures in space

#Airbus | Autonomous robotics for space assembly | Space factory | Metal3D printer | Producing radiation shields, tooling, equipment in orbit | Producing and assembling entire satellites in space | Refilling and repairing spacecraft | Algorithms for robotic arms to work together | Building bigger structures such as huge reflectors, allowing telecom satellites to cover entire planet

#Space Forge | Zero gravity production | Producing materials in earth orbit in returnable satellites | Investments from Berlin climate-focused World Fund, Los Angeles-based Type One Ventures and Houston-based Space Fund | Dedicated in-space manufacturing, coupled with reliable return

#European Space Agency (ESA) | Advanced Manufacturing Cross-Cutting Initiative | Design to Produce | Clean Space | Out-of-Earth Manufacturing | Full digital engineering workflow | Model-based system engineering | Smart manufacturing | Autonomous and intelligent systems | Virtual testing environment | Out-Of-Earth (OOE) Manufacturing | Larger spacecraft components, antennae reflectors, solar arrays, radiators | Reducing the dependence on cargo missions | Additive manufacturing (3D printing) | Technology for miniaturization of complex small systems, propulsion systems for nano-satellites, and RF equipment

#ESA | NASA | The MIRI European Consortium | JPL | University of Arizona | MIRI | Mid Infrared Instrument | MIRI captures mid infrared light, which highlights where the dust is | Dust is a major ingredient for star | Researchers to add much more precise calculations of dust quantities in stars and galaxies to their models | Beginning to more clearly understand how galaxies at any distance form and change over time

#NIRCam | Near Infrared Camera | Deep field, is a composite made from images at different wavelengths, totaling 12.5 hours | Researchers will continue to use Webb to take longer exposures | Webb Telescope

#ESA | Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission

#SpaceX | T Mobile | Starlink satellites | Providing mobile users with network access in parts of the United States

#AST SpaceMobile | Building a global cellular broadband network in space

#Vodafone | Developing space based mobile network to connect directly with standard mobile phones | Devices to switch between space and ground based networks automatically

#ICEYE | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

#General Atomics | Air to Air Laser Communication System | Crosslinks from aircraft to other platforms such as unmanned aircraft, maritime vessels, and space systems

#ESA | Solar Orbiter | Solar snake | Tube of cool plasma suspended by magnetic fields in the hotter surrounding plasma of the Sun atmosphere | Plasma gas is hot and electrically charged being susceptible to magnetic fields | All gas in Sun atmosphere is a plasma temperature exceeding a million degrees centigrade | Mullard Space Science Laboratory (UCL), UK | Extreme Ultraviolet Imager onboard Solar Orbiter | Snake plasma travelling ca170 km/s | Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) | Understanding solar activity and space weather

#Artemis | NASA | ESA | Uncrewed test flight | Crewed flight beyond the Moon | Landing the first female astronaut and first astronaut of colour on the Moon | Spending a week performing scientific studies on the lunar surface

#SWOT | Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission | Providing high definition data on the salt and fresh water on Earth surface | Measuring the height of water in Earth freshwater bodies and the ocean | Providing insights into how the ocean influences climate change | how a warming world affects lakes, rivers, and reservoirs | how communities can better prepare for disasters, like floods | Tracking Earth water budget | where the water is today | where it is coming from | where it is going to be tomorrow | Helping to understand oceans role in climate change | ObservIng the entire length of nearly all rivers wider than 330 feet (100 meters) | Viewing rivers in 3D for the first time | Data of over a million lakes larger than 15 acres (62500 square meters) | Providing information about global ocean atmosphere heat exchange | NASA | CNES | CSA | UK Space Agency | ESA

#Airbus | Space exploration | Electronic components | Telecommunications relay platforms | Scientific satellites | Crewed spacecraft

#ArianeGroup | Safran | Ariane launcher

#SpaceX | Starship human landing system

#C2ES | Extreme Heat Study

#National Wheather Service | HeatIndex

#Thermo Fisher Scientific | Global Climate Studies

#Alba Orbital | Manufactures and supports PocketQube satellites

#AAC Clyde Space | CubeSat

#Spire | Designs, builds and tests nanosatellites in Scotland

#Mangata Networks | Building satellite manufacturing facility

#NASA | Satellite Earth Observation

#Intelsat | ESA | HummingSat | SWISSto12 | Geostationary orbit 36 000 kilometres above Earth | Small and lightweight | Designed for rideshare missions on launchers carrying one or more larger spacecraft to geostationary transfer orbit | Additive manufactured radio frequency equipment | Faster satellite build cycles in the future

#EUmetsat | Defining the system requirements | Developing the ground systems | Procuring the launch services | Operating the satellites | Making the data available to users

#MTG system | Providing critical data for weather forecasting

#NATO | Innovation Fund | Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) | Dual use emerging technologies of priority to NATO | Artificial intelligence | Quantum enabled technologies | Autonomy | Biotechnology |Novel materials | Energy | Propulsion | Space

#Intel | Neuromorphic computing | Biological neural computation | New algorithmic approaches | Emulating human brain interactions | Spiking neural networks (SNNs) | Simulating natural learning | Dynamically remapping neural networks | Making decisions in response to learned patterns over time | Powering autonomous AI solutions | Supporting energy efficiency and continuous learning | Sensing | Robotics | Healthcare | Large scale AI applications

#Moon to Mars Program Office at NASA | Preparing to carry out missions to the Moon | Preparing to land the first humans on Mars

#UPM Plywood | WISA Woodsat | Kitsat 1U CubeSat | Selfies stick by Huld | Atomic oxygen sensor by Captain Corrosion, Tartu University | Color test cards by Tikkurila | Atomic Layer Deposition by Picosun | Fastener for the screws by Henkel

#ReOrbit | Autonomous & internetworking satellites manufacturing | Flght software | Satellite platform | Simulation software | SatCom satellites | Software defined satellite architecture | Mission simulator

#NASA | Artemis Accords | Outer Space Treaty | Creating safe and transparent environment which facilitates exploration, science, and commercial activities for all of humanity to enjoy

#Gateway | Multi purpose outpost orbiting the Moon | Provides essential support for long term human return to the lunar surface | Serves as a staging points for deep space exploration | Develop and test the technology and science needed for a human trip to Mars | Command and control systems for the lunar outpost | Robotic interfaces provided by the Canadian Space Agency to host payloads | ESA to provide lunar communications system to enable high data rate communications between lunar surface and Gateway | ESA provided refueling module

#Northrop Grumman | Developing Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) for Gateway | Attaching and testing integrated HALO with Power and Propulsion Element (PPE)

#Maxar Technologies | Solar electric propulsion (SEP) subsystem destined for PPE

#Busek Co | Solar electric propulsion (SEP) subsystem | Thrusters

#Blue Origin | Developing a crewed lunar lander | NASA Artemis program | Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) | $7 billion project | Blue Origin-led team: Lockheed Martin | Boeing | Draper | Astrobotic | Honeybee Robotics | Leidos | Dynetics

#Dynetics | Crewed lunar lander

#Leidos | Crewed lunar lander

#Honeybee Robotics | Crewed lunar lander |Mars Lander Return System | Lunar Power Grid for Artemis | Pneumatic sampler for Martian Moon Mission by JAXA | Motion control in space | Solar array drive and power transfer technologies

#Astrobotic | Robotic lunar lander | Ion Mass Spectrometer (PITMS) payload to understand better how water moves across the Moon

#Draper | Crewed lunar lander

#Boeing | Crewed lunar lander

#NASA Space Science | OSIRIS-REx | Collected sample from asteroid | Returned sample to Earth to drop off material from asteroid Bennu | Released capsule holding pieces of Bennu over Earth atmosphere | Research whether asteroids colliding with Earth billions of years ago brought water and other key ingredients for life | Mission to help scientists investigate how planets formed and how life began, as well as improve understanding of asteroids that could impact Earth | 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu | Evidence of high-carbon content and water in sample | Specialized gloveboxes and tools to keep asteroid material pristine | Electron microscope | Infrared measurements | X-ray diffraction | Chemical element analysis | X-ray computed tomography | 3D computer model | New Frontiers Program

#ACB | PCB manufacturer | Microvias | High density interconnect (HDI) printed circuit boards (PCBs) | Qualification of HDI PCBs for space missions | ESA | Hidden reliability threat | ESA qualification for HDI PCBs | IMEC, Belgian research institute | Thales Alenia Space, Belgium

#Intuitive Machines | Robotic lunar lander

#Firefly Space | Robotic lunar lander | Lunar Orbit Services | Task orders through the NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative

#picknik.ai | Satellite capture, servicing, decommissioning | IVA cargo unloading, manufacturing, science | EVA inspection, maintenance | Lunar base assembly, maintenance | In-space servicing, assembly, manufacturing

#Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) | Developing ground-penetrating radar instrument | NASA Development and Advancement of Lunar Instrumentation (DALI) | Synthetic Pulse Artemis Radar for Crustal Imaging (SPARCI)

#Wise Observatory | Resolute encoders

#Ommatidia Lidar | Product: 3D Light Sensor | Usage: in-orbit characterization of large deployable reflectors (LDRs) | Channels: 128 parallel | Imaging vibrometry functionality | Target accuracy: 10µm | Measurement range: 0.5-20 m | Measurement accuracy (MPE): 20 + 6 μ/m | Angular range 30 x 360 | Vibrometry sampling frequenvy: 40 kHz | Vibrometry max in-band velocity: 15.5 mm/s | Power consumption: 45W | Battery operation time: 240 min | Interface: Ethernet | Format: CSV / VKT / STL / PLY / TXT | Dimension: 150x228x382 mm | Weight: 7,5 kg | Pointer: ~633 nm | Temperature range: 0/40 ºC | Environmental protection class: IP54 | Eye safety: Class 1M | Raw point clouds: over 1 million points | Calibration: metrology-grade with compensation of thermal and atmospheric effects | Geotagging: GPS | Output: 3D profiles of large objects

#Anybotics | Workforce App | Operate ANYmal robot from device | Set up and review robot missions | Industrial Inspection

#Frontgrade Gaisler | Space-grade microprocessor | BrainChip | AI-enabled space-grade SoC | Integration of BrainChip Akida neuromorphic processor | BrainChip

#HEBI Robotics | Robot development platform | Smart robotic actuation hardware and building blocks | Streamlininh the process of developing robots | Space-rated hardware deployed for missions in space | NASA: SBIR

#Google DeepMind Technologies Limited | Creating advanced AI models and applications | Artificial intelligence systems ALOHA Unleashed and DemoStart | Helping robots perform complex tasks that require dexterous movement | Two-armed manipulation tasks | Simulations to improve real-world performance on multi-fingered robotic hand | Helping robots learn from human demonstrations | Translating images to action | High level of dexterity in bi-arm manipulation | Robot has two hands that can be teleoperated for training and data-collection | Allowing robots to learn how to perform new tasks with fewer demonstrations | Collectung demonstration data by remotely operating robot behavior | Applying diffusion method | Predicting robot actions from random noise | Helpung robot learn from data | Collaborating with DemoStart | DemoStart is helping new robots acquire dexterous behaviors in simulation | Google collaborating with Shadow Robot

#Linux Foundation | LF AI & Data | Fostering open source innovation in artificial intelligence and data | Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA) | Creating flexible, scalable Generative AI systems | Promoting sustainable ecosystem for open source AI solutions | Simplifying the deployment of generative AI (GenAI) systems | Standardization of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) | Supporting Linux development and open-source software projects | Linux kernel | Linus Torvalds

#Kyoto University | LignoSat | Wooden satellite | Timber to help reduce space junk | Avoiding generating metal particles when retired satellite returns to Earth | Kyoto University Human Spaceology Center | Sumitomo Forestry co-developer | Data sent from satellite to researchers checking signs of strain

#NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Built and manages operations of the Perseverance rover

#Caltech Pasadena | Perseverance | Mars rover | Taking geoligical samples | Examining rocks from deep down inside Mars that were thrown upward to form crater rim after impact

#Purdue University in West Layfette, Indiana | Mars research | Astrobiology

#Simons Foundation | Polymathic AI | Developing models that are truly polymathic | Giving AI models cross-disciplinary scientific knowledge | Multimodal Universe

#VORAGO | Radiation hardened and radiation tolerant microcontrollers and microprocessors | High-volume manufacturing to harden commercially designed semiconductor component | Empowers mission success | Radiation-hardened ICs that excel in extreme environments | ARM | Texas Instruments | Brainchip | Custom hardware and firmware solutions tailored to withstand extreme environments | Ensuring that mission-critical components remain resilient | Custom solutions, armed with space-grade electronics and an ARM Cortex microcontrollers | International Space Station: dies measuring the effects of protons and cosmic rays | Satelites: devices utilized in Department of Defense Space Test Program (STP) missions | CubeSats: ARM microvontroller | Semiconductor components and solutions for extreme temperature environments up to +200°C

#Electro Optic Systems | Delivering optical surveillance capabilities for space domain awareness, space intelligence, and space control | High energy laser capabilities for space object tracking, characterisation, identification, optical communications, and remote manoeuvre | Design, development, and optical manufacturing | EOS sensors provide positioning accuracy of small, dim and far objects for space control during day and night | Telescope ground stations | High energy laser tracking | Software control systems | Space control programs

#KiwiStar Optics | Precision optics | Lenses for telescopes | Customised, tightly-toleranced lens elements from 0.25m to over 1m in diameter | Spectrograph solutions for small to medium size telescopes | 30m diameter Ritchey-Chretien optical infrared telescope

#Victoria University of Wellington | Space Science as an undergraduate major | Fuelled by increasing interest in a growing national space industry

#Robot Operating System (ROS) | Set of software libraries and tools helping to build robot applications | Open source software development kit for robotics applications | Instals on Ubuntu and Windows 10 | Software ecosystem of software for robotics | Linux, Windows, macOS | Embedded platforms (via micro-ROS) | Open Source Robotics Alliance (OSRA)

#NVIDIA | Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) | Open-source framework for creating, simulating, and collaborating in 3D worlds | Developed by Pixar Animation Studios | Supporting 3D content creation and tool interchange | Industry standard in Visual Effects (VFX), architecture, robotics, manufacturing | Developing for OpenUSD using USD Python build or API

#Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) |Pasadena, California | NASA-funded facility | Telescope | Spacecraft | Long-standing fire protocols | Kept its hillside campus clear of brush and other potential fuel for fire | Firebreaks created | On-site fire department maintained | Close track kept of the materials and chemicals in all lab spaces | Watering station atop one of its hills. Firefight | Firefighting helicopters have regularly landed at JPL to refill with water to dump on the fire | Flew NASA Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer-3 (AVIRIS-3) on planes above burned area | Runs or contributes to 40 active missions | All communications and data relayed to and from missions run through Deep Space Network (DSN), which JPL runs on-site in its mission operations center | Moved DSN operations up to backup site at NASA Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in central California | Missions did not lose any data or suffer any significant loss of operations | Following JPL contingency plan, JPL moved DSN operations up to backup site at NASA Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in central California | JPL practices it twice a year | Missions did not lose any data | Missions did not suffer any significant loss of operations | Mars rovers, have backup commands in place in the event they lose communications with Earth | Rovers remained stationary for a few days and collected some passive data | All missions were kept going during fires | Some systems had already been shipped to BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado | NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission had been shipped to India | Hurricane-speed winds damaged the roofs of 10 buildings | There is still debris to clear away | JPL was back in operation on 21 January | Mission operations center is fully staffed once again | Essential personnel resumed working on-site | JPL and its university partner, the California Institute of Technology, have arranged a relief fund for their staff | JPL is also working with a trauma team to provide support to first responders and staff | Those whose houses are lost, who do not have lots of other places to go, can come to the lab

#Allen Institute for Artifical Intelligence | AI for the Environment | Robot planning precise action points to perform tasks accurately and reliably | Vision Language Model (VLM) controlling robot behavior | Introducing automatic synthetic data generation pipeline | Instruction-tuning VLM to robotic domains and needs | Predicting image keypoint affordances given language instructions | RGB image rendered from procedurally generated 3D scene | Computing spatial relations from camera perspective | Generating affordances by sampling points within object masks and object-surface intersections | Instruction-point pairs fine-tune language model | RoboPoint predicts 2D action points from image and instruction, which are projected into 3D using depth map | Robot navigates to these 3D targets with motion planner | Combining object and space reference data with VQA and object detection data | Leveraging spatial reasoning, object detection, and affordance prediction from diverse sources | Enabling to generalize combinatorially.| Synthetic dataset used to teach RoboPoint relational object reference and free space reference | Red and ground boxes as visual prompts to indicate reference objects | Cyan dots as visualized ground truth | NVIDIA | | Universidad Catolica San Pablo | University of Washington

#VORAGO | Radiation hardened and radiation tolerant microcontrollers and microprocessors | High-volume manufacturing to harden commercially designed semiconductor component | Empowers mission success | Radiation-hardened ICs that excel in extreme environments | ARM | Texas Instruments | Brainchip | Custom hardware and firmware solutions tailored to withstand extreme environments | Ensuring that mission-critical components remain resilient | Custom solutions, armed with space-grade electronics and an ARM Cortex microcontrollers | International Space Station: dies measuring the effects of protons and cosmic rays | Satelites: devices utilized in Department of Defense Space Test Program (STP) missions | CubeSats: ARM microvontroller | Semiconductor components and solutions for extreme temperature environments up to +200°C

#ACES Delta | Green Hydrogen

#JGCHoldings | Hydrogen Production Plant

#Marubeni | Green Hydrogen Production and Transportation

#CryovSpain | Liquid Hydrogen for Aeronautical Industry

#Air Liquide | Industrial gases and services to various industries

#Linde | Hydrogen Manufacturing

#Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy

#Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore | Operated by tAssociation of Universities for Research in Astronomy | Conducts Hubble science operations for NASA

#NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland | Manages Hubble telescope and mission operations

#Institute of Space Sciences | Barcelona | Spain

#University of Warwick | United Kingdom

#Radboud University | Netherlands

#European Space Research and Technology Center | ESTEC | Netherlands

#MemryX | AI Accelerator Module | Install system software, MemryX SDK, MemryX board | Compile AI model(s) making executable file | Send data & receive results using APIs for AI processing | Up to 6 TFLOPs (1GHz) per chip | Up to 16-chips (96 TOPS/TFLOPs) can be interconnected | Activations: bfloat16 (high accuracy) | Weights: 4 / 8 / 16 bit | Batch = 1 | 10.5M 8-bit parameters (weights) per chip | PCIe Gen 3 I/O | USB 3 interface | 0.6-2W per chip av power | Smart compiler: optimized and automated AI mapping to MemryX hardware | Powerful APIs: Python and C/C++ low and mid-level APIs for AI integration | Runtime: driver and firmware to support Windows or Linux distributions | Bit Accurate simulator: accurately testing models even without MemryX hardware

#Google Cloud | Vertex AI platform

#NVidia | Dexterous robot development | Manipulating objects with precision, adaptability, and efficiency | Fine motor control, coordination, ability to handle a wide range of tasks, often in unstructured environments | Key aspects of robot dexterity include grip, manipulation, tactile sensitivity, agility, and coordination | Robot dexterity development for manufacturing, healthcare, logistics | Dexterity enabling automation in tasks that traditionally require human-like precision

#ESA | Proba-3 mission | Two spacecraft in orbit aligned in formation with millimetre precision | Maintained their relative position for several hours without any control from the ground | ESA General Support Technology Programme (GSTP) | Formation flying performed when spacecrafts are more than 50 000 km above Earth | Earth gravity pull is small enough, so that very little propellant is needed to maintain formation | Goal is two spacecraft aligned with the Sun so that 1.4-m large disc carried by Occulter casts 5-cm shadow onto optical instrument on Coronagraph, allowing it to studyfaint solar corona | On-board laser instrument calibrated

#Royal Observatory of Belgium | Proba-3 mission led by ESA

#European Space Security and Education Centre (ESEC) | Proba-3 mission led by ESA

#Sener | Proba-3 mission led by ESA

#GMV | Proba-3 mission led by ESA

#Airbus, Spain | Proba-3 mission led by ESA

#Redwire Space | Proba-3 mission led by ESA

#SpaceBel | Proba-3 mission led by ESA

#CSL | Proba-3 mission led by ESA

#NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland | PACE mission | Ocean Color Instrument | Detecting more than 280 wavelengths of light | Finer detail | Better insights into ocean color and type of plankton satellite can spot | Dramatic improvements in the detection of zooplankton and phytoplankton | Captured swirling green phytoplankton blooms in Gulf of Maine in April 2024 | Such blooms fuel zooplankton like Calanus finmarchicus | Detecting better copepod Calanus finmarchicus in Gulf of Maine and estimating their numbers from space

#GITAI | Building robotic workforce for space exploration | Tasks in micro-gravity environments | Grapple end-effectors for docking spacecraft, manipulating payload, inspecting & repairing with high precision | Remote control interface

#European Space Deep Tech Innovation Centre (ESDI) | Switzerland