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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Oceanographers need precise measurements of waves and currents when studying the seas. To colle...

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This document presents RCS results for three aircraft models and three other benchmark geometries obtained using WIPL-D Software. The comparison of the obtained results with the "Austin RCS Ben...

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Space technology is solving some of our most pressing challenges right here on Earth. Applications like satellite communications and GPS are among many of the significant breakthroughs in history...

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The idea of powering civilization from gigantic solar plants in orbit is older than any space program , but despite seven decades of rocket science, the concept—to gather near-constant sunlight...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/space-based-solar-power

Rapid and resourceful technological improvisation has long been a mainstay of warfare, but the war in Ukraine is taking it to a new level. This improvisation is most conspicuous in the ceaselessl...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ukraine-hackers-war

The European Space Agency will launch a mission late this year to demonstrate precision formation flying in orbit to create artificial solar eclipses. In a press conference last week, the agency ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/satellite-constellation-formation-flying-esa

If you’re an astrophysicist trying to detect signals from the early universe after the big bang , Earth is not a great place to be. Yes, this planet is our home, warm and wet and brimming with...

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A new machine learning system can create height maps of urban environments from a single synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image, potentially accelerating disaster planning and response. Aerospace...

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New analysis of the former Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine shows that it may have been deteriorating long before it collapsed in June 2023, amid credible reports of explosions. An international team o...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/synthetic-aperture-radar-kakhovka-dam

This sponsored article is brought to you by Avnet and AMD . The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in image processing has brought about significant advancements in the exploration of space an...

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When Harrison Schmitt and his crewmate Gene Cernan finished their last moonwalk, they were filthy. Never mind that Apollo 17 wasn’t large enough for basic creature comforts; the bigger issue...

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China launched a spacecraft today that is planned to be the first act in a complex, multistep campaign to achieve an unprecedented feat: Collecting samples from the far side of the moon and del...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/china-moon-landing-uncrewed-chang-e6

Having an eye in the sky can provide invaluable information for emergency services. That’s why the police and fire departments in Fremont, Calif., have teamed up to operate a drone first respon...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/police-drones

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Drilling down into the icy depths of Jupiter’s or Saturn’s moons could reveal one of the mo...

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Engineers today need to understand the surface of the moon in a way that they haven’t since the Apollo era. This year, amidst a flurry of commercial , American , Indian , Japanese , and other r...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/moon-remote-sensing-toolkit

UPDATE 23 FEB. 2024: Descending on a jet of burning methane, kicking up dust in all directions, Intuitive Machines ’ robotic spacecraft Odysseus came to rest on the moon Thursday. And then, fo...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/lunar-landing-intuitive-machines

Starlink sent and received texts over a 4G/LTE connection between mobile phones via its latest generation of satellites, called v2mini, for the first time this month , following similar projects ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/satellite-cellphone-starlink

The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made its 72nd and final flight on 18 January. “While the helicopter remains upright and in communication with ground controllers,” NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab s...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/mars-helicopter-ingenuity-end-mission

Look up. The odds are good that one or more low-Earth-orbit satellites are above you right now. Some 5,000 LEO satellites currently orbit 500 to 1,500 kilometers above the Earth, helping to fore...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/leo-satellite-needs-more-engineers

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few ...

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BEFORE THE END of this year, four people will climb into a spacecraft, fly to the moon, and swing around it before returning to Earth. Yes, been there, done that. But not for 51 years. NASA�...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/artemis-2

A shoot-out featuring thousands of lasers is about to break out in low earth orbit. Luckily, no one will get hurt—the lasers’ targets are the protagonists’ own communications satellites. ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/amazon-kuiper-satellites

The first commercial very low-Earth orbit (VLEO) satellite will probably launch before the end of December, depending on how things go at China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC...

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Every minute counts when someone suffers a cardiac arrest. New research suggests that drones equipped with equipment to automatically restart someone’s heart could help get life-saving care to...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/drone-defibrillator

Ray guns that can blast drones are among the many potential applications envisioned for so-called fiber lasers . Now scientists have discovered a way to boost the power of these lasers by roughly...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/laser-weapons

COMMERCIAL AVIATION IS THE CONNECTIVE tissue of the modern world. Just before the global pandemic, on an average day 12 million people flew on some 100,000 commercial flights, according to the I...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fly-the-hybrid-skies

In August, Oleksii Kryvobok walked through a green and yellow field of sunflowers south of Kyiv, Ukraine, and measured the harvest’s photosynthetic activity with a device on a tripod. Hundreds...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/earth-observation-satellites-small-constellations

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few ...

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The pleasant streets of Grindavik on the southern tip of Iceland are now barren, stark, and cracked, as empty-seeming as the vast landscape around it. On 11 November, this Iclandic fishing town ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/synthetic-aperture-radar-venus-iceland

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Weather satellites can track every movement of a storm from orbit. However, the algorithms tha...

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