The Tevatron was a circular particle accelerator in the United States, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (also known as Fermilab), and holds the title of the second highest energy particle collider in the world after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland.

The Tevatron was a synchrotron that accelerated protons and antiprotons in a 6.86 km, or 4.26 mi, ring to energies of up to 1 TeV, hence its name. The main achievement the Tevatron was discovery in 1995 of the top quark—the last fundamental fermion predicted by the standard model of the particle physics. On July 2, 2012, near the end of Tevatron's operation, scientists of the CDF and DØ collider experiment teams at Fermilab announced the findings from the analysis of around 500 trillion collisions produced from the Tevatron collider since 2001, and found that the existence of the suspected Higgs boson was highly likely with only a 1-in-550 chance that the signs were due to a statistical fluctuation. The findings were confirmed two days later as being correct with a likelihood of error less than 1 in a million by data from the LHC experiments.

The Tevatron was completed in 1983 and significant upgrade investments were made in 1983–2011. The Tevatron ceased operations on 30 September, 2011,[3] due to budget cuts and because of the completion of the LHC, which began operations in early 2010 and was far more powerful (planned energies were two 7 TeV beams at the LHC compared to 1 TeV at the Tevatron). The main ring of the Tevatron will probably be reused in future experiments, and its components may be transferred to other particle accelerators.

NEXT, the NASA Evolutionary Xenon Thruster project at Glenn Research Center aims to build an ion thruster about three times as powerful as the NSTAR used on Dawn and Deep Space 1.

By 2008, flight qualification models of the thruster were available. NEXT has 6.9 kW thruster power and 236 mN thrust, can be throttled down to 0.5 kW power, and has an ISP of 4190 seconds (compared to 3120 for NSTAR). The thrusters are manufactured at Aerojet and the power-management units at the ETI division of L3 Communications.

BOINC, the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing is an open source middleware system for volunteer and grid computing.

It was originally developed to support the SETI@home project before it became useful as a platform for other distributed applications in areas as diverse as mathematics, medicine, molecular biology, climatology, and astrophysics.

The intent of BOINC is to make it possible for researchers to tap into the enormous processing power of personal computers around the world.

The Mighty Eagle is a Prototype Robotic Lander developed by NASA at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

The vehicle is an autonomous flying testbed that is used for testing hardware, sensors and algorithms. These sensors and algorithms include such things as onboard cameras that, with specialized guidance, navigation and control software, could aid in the capture of orbiting space debris, in-space docking with a fuel depot, docking of a robotic lander with an orbiting command module and the rendezvous of multiple unmanned stages for deep space human exploration of the solar system.

TRIUMF is Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics.

Its headquarters are located on the south campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. TRIUMF houses the world's largest cyclotron, a source of 500 MeV protons, which was named an IEEE Milestone in 2010.

TRIUMF's activities involve particle physics, nuclear physics, nuclear medicine, and materials science.

Kymeta is an Intellectual Ventures spin-off company which aims to develop and commercialize the metamaterials surface antenna technology (M-SAT).

Metamaterials Surface Antenna Technology (MSA-T) was invented by Intellectual Ventures, where a dedicated team of engineers performed significant research and development to de-risk the technology. Recognizing the enormous potential of MSA-T, Kymeta was formed as a spin-out company from Intellectual Ventures. Kymeta has been granted an exclusive license from Intellectual Ventures to leverage MSA-T to create game-changing satellite user terminal products.

Kymeta received funding from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates; a global cable company Liberty Global; and the investment firm Lux Capital. Kymeta's applied science is derived from the collaborative efforts of Dr. Nathan Kundtz and David R. Smith, at Duke University. metamaterials surface antenna technology is a new invention that is intended to be more efficient and compact than conventional satellite antennas.

Spacebel is a software engineering company operating in the Space and Earth monitoring application sectors, serving space agencies, major aerospace prime companies, EU institutions and the commercial market. Our skills include the mission definition and analysis of EO microsats, the design, development, integration, validation of IT space systems and geospatial information systems.

• On board software systems for satellites and space vehicles
• Satellite simulation systems
• Ground systems for control and mission centres
• Geospatial information systems support and services
• Earth observation microsatellite solutions

OnixSat provides solutions for satellite communication and tracking for air, land and nautical markets and has more than 90.000 installed equipment. With its structure of partnerships and relationships with satellite communication companies such as Inmarsat, the company seeks to meet the needs of its clients, offering case by case, appropriate solutions.

Mission

Provide solutions in satellite communications and tracking for markets for air, land and sea, enabling the optimization of logistics, security and operational communication of the costumers, allowing you to reduce your costs and increase your profits.

Solar Panels are typically the most expensive subsystems on a spacecraft. This expense is due to a number of factors including; the cost of the solar cells, the cost of the materials used in the solar panel manufacturing process and the cost of the labour involved in the design and production of the panels. 

SmallSat Solar Panels

Clyde Space solar array design and manufacturing techniques have been developed based on traditional solar array assembly techniques, but adapted to reduce assembly costs in order to meet the tighter budget needs of the small satellite community.

Unlike most solar panel manufacturers, Clyde Space also is also known for its high performance small satellite electrical power systems and batteries. This enables us to understand customer requirements and to advise on solar array configuration to achieve optimum power levels.

CubeSat Solar Panels

Clyde Space has supplied CubeSat solar panels for about 50 CubeSats to date (Sept.13). Our solar panels are typically multi-layer Printed Circuit Board (PCB) substrates with a space rated Kapton facesheet.
There are many advantages to using PCB and our experience with this approach means that we have a slick, well proven technique. To ensure good thermal design, we use copper fill on the top and bottom layers and flood the underside of the cells with vias for thermal conductivity purposes. There is no wiring on our panels and they produce a minimal magnetic field.

NanoRacks is a private company that provides standard rack-mounted laboratory facilities and micro-gravity space access to commercial customers at the International Space Station (ISS).

NanoRacks provides 'Plug and Play' micro-gravity research facilities allowing small standardized payloads to be plugged into any of our platforms, providing interface with the International Space Station power and data capabilities.