WASHINGTON — The sensor blamed for holding up development of the U.S. civil-military National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) has entered what is expected to be its ...

Vacuum sensors are indispensable in cutting-edge fields ranging from semiconductor manufacturing to space exploration. Yet current technologies often trade measurement range for accuracy—or vice versa ...

The Thermal Infrared Sensor that will fly on the next Landsat satellite came out of its first round of thermal vacuum testing recently at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. The ...

Astronomers at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory are using test kit from Rydberg Vacuum Sciences to fast-track the development and qualification of a new generation of small-satellite ...

Australia's Structural Monitoring Systems (SMS) has achieved a breakthrough with its Comparative Vacuum Monitoring (CVM) system, with Boeing agreeing to include the crack-detection technology in its ...