Every 4th May, engineers, designers, and electronics professionals around the world May pause to acknowledge that Star Wars ...
Space is unforgiving to electronics. Beyond Earth’s protective magnetic field, satellites are bombarded by cosmic rays and high-energy particles that slowly chip away at delicate circuits. Over time, ...
Latvian startup Deep Space Energy SIA announced Wednesday it has raised €930,000, about $1.1 million, in pre-seed funding to advance novel radioscopic generator technology for the European space and ...
From the very first Cold War Geiger counters that were Sputnik and Explorer-1, to the autonomous robots of Mars, asteroid missions, telescopes, and the Voyager craft now outside our solar system, ...
How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th ...
Figure 1: Wafer of GaN point of Load Converters from the ELeGaNT development Over the past decade, the European Commission has invested significantly in space research in order to strengthen Europe’s ...
Why GaN components are highly resistant to radiation damage, such as total ionizing dose (TID), making GaN well-suited for harsh space environments. Why GaN devices remain vulnerable to single-event ...