
Copernical Team
Successful in-flight demonstration of the ADEO braking sail


The Drag Augmentation Deorbiting System (ADEO) breaking sail was successfully deployed from the ION satellite carrier in late December 2022.
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Curious comet’s rare close approach
Turning astronauts into Moon explorers
Astral alchemy


Setting sail for safer space


New telescope project completion in sight


The construction of the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) being developed by CCAT Observatory Inc., an international consortium of universities led by Cornell, is drawing to a close.
Work is poised to begin on a defining feature of the telescope—the "elevation" part that supports the upper structure and will contain the telescope's mirrors. Unlike almost any other telescope to date, the part will be constructed from Invar, a special formulation of steel that has an extremely low coefficient of thermal expansion.
"This means that it doesn't get bigger when it's hot and it doesn't shrink when it's cold," said Jim Blair, FYST project manager in the Department of Astronomy, in the College of Arts and Sciences. "At least, it's greatly, greatly reduced with Invar compared to regular steel. And that's important for the science, because at the wavelengths we are looking at, thermal expansion would actually affect the data and could ruin it.
Studies on hibernating squirrels may help astronauts


D-Orbit launches ION's first mission into a midinclination orbit


Iridium GO exec redefines personal off-the-grid connectivity

