This spring, NASA published a document overviewing almost 200 technology areas requiring further development to meet future exploration, science, and other mission needs – and asked the aerospace community to rate their importance. The goal was to better integrate the community’s most pervasive technical challenges, or shortfalls, to help guide NASA’s space technology development and … Read more
Bente Eegholm is an optical engineer working to ensure missions like the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope have stellar vision. When it launches by May 2027, the Roman mission will shed light on many astrophysics topics, like dark energy, which are currently shrouded in mystery. Bente’s past work has included Earth-observing missions and the James … Read more
The healthcare landscape is undergoing a significant digital transformation. Innovations such as telemedicine consultations and wearable health trackers are revolutionizing the delivery and receipt of care. These technological advancements offer substantial benefits, including increased accessibility, enhanced data collection, and potentially faster diagnoses. For instance, telemedicine has grown by over 150 per cent in recent years, … Read more
Augmented reality tools have helped technicians improve accuracy and save time on fit checks for the Roman Space Telescope being assembled at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. In one instance, manipulating a digital model of Roman’s propulsion system into the real telescope structure revealed the planned design would not fit around existing … Read more
Using NASA’s first two-way, end-to-end laser relay system, pictures and videos of cherished pets flew through space over laser communications links at a rate of 1.2 gigabits per second — faster than most home internet speeds. NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik, Christina Koch, and Kjell Lindgren, along with other agency employees, submitted photos and videos of … Read more
NSE’s index services subsidiary, NSE Indices, on Friday launched a new strategy index — Nifty500 Equal Weight — which represents an alternative weighting strategy to its parent index, the Nifty 500. It includes the same companies as the Nifty 500, however, weighed equally, an NSE press release said. The base date for the index is … Read more
Gurugram: Core Diagnostics announced its exclusive partnership with Digistain. The collaboration aims to bring the breast cancer risk profiling technology, Digistain, to India, Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. Digistain is a digital solution for cancer grading and prognosis, approved by the UK’s Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). It offers a rapid, affordable, and AI-enabled … Read more
NASA has awarded the Consolidated Agency Technology Transfer Services contract to Summit Technologies & Solutions, Inc. in Alexandria, Virginia, to provide support for the agency’s Technology Transfer Program. The performance-based firm-fixed price contract has a potential mission services value of $26 million and a maximum potential indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity value of $55 million. The contract begins on … Read more
A new, higher-resolution infrared camera outfitted with a variety of lightweight filters could probe sunlight reflected off Earth’s upper atmosphere and surface, improve forest fire warnings, and reveal the molecular composition of other planets. The cameras use sensitive, high-resolution strained-layer superlattice sensors, initially developed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, using IRAD, … Read more
The Nasdaq closed at a record high on Monday while the S&P 500 gained slightly as technology stocks advanced ahead of Nvidia‘s highly anticipated earnings and investors gauged the timing of an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve. The S&P 500 technology index led gains among the 11 major S&P sectors, rising 1.32%, helped … Read more