The Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) of Gateway – which is planned as NASA’s orbiting outpost around the Moon, and critical infrastructure for its Artemis mission – is in the middle of several electric propulsion system tests. Nasa is highlighting the progress of the system, which is being manufactured by Maxar Technologies. Not only will it provide the Gateway platform ...
Gadget-in-Extremis: Pawel Achtel’s 18.7K resolution camera
We covered the camera system used in the Sphere Entertainment dome only recently, and it already has a rival...
Gadget-in-Extremis: Nasa’s Cold Atom Lab demonstrates atom interferometer
This is what NASA’s Cold Atom Lab looks like. It’s aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and has recently demonstrated the use of a tool called an atom interferometer, the agency shares.
Gadget-in Extremis: Atomic clocking the effects of gravity
Researchers build an atomic clock that is more precise and accurate than any previous clock - for the first time, a clock can detect the effects of gravity predicted by Einstein’s theory of relativity at the microscopic scale.
Gadget in Extremis: Breaking world record data transmission speed
A team at Aston University can send data at a rate of 402 terabits per second, claiming a world record in the process. They were using “standard fibre” for the optical comms.
Gadget-in Extremis: Manta Ray prototypes new class of UUV
This is Manta Ray, Northrop Gruman's newly unveiled "Uncrewed Underwater Vehicle" (UUV), designed for undersea missions without direct human presence - to help "master the deep".
Gadget-in-Extremis: Sphere Entertainment’s Big Sky camera system
Considering buying a digital camera? How about Sphere Entertainment's Big Sky camera system? STMicroelectronics makes the 316Mpixel 18K image sensor at the heart of the device...
Gadget in Extremis: What’s the time, Sr1 strontium optical clock?
Scientists at the NPL celebrate the first inclusion of a UK optical clock - the Sr1 strontium optical lattice clock - in the determination of International Atomic Time (TAI).
Gadget-in-Extremis: Nasa’s quiet X-59 supersonic aircraft
Pictured is Nasa’s cutting-edge X-59 aircraft, parked near the runway at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. This is where it will be based while undergoing ground and initial flight tests.
Gadget In Extremis: Nasa’s ‘Capture and Containment’ system for Mars samples
What is this? It's Nasa's 'Capture, Containment, and Return System' for its planned, super-complicated Mars Sample Return mission.