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NKT Photonics fibre lasers enable ground-breaking deep-space communication

NKT Photonics fibre lasers enable ground-breaking deep-space communication

ESA has successfully established Europe’s first deep-space optical communication link using a high-power fibre laser system from NKT Photonics, who have a UK base.

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Exhibiting at the International Astronautical Congress

Posted by: Madeleine Russell, Posted on: 17 September 2014 - Categories: Events

...Space Propulsion Star Dundee If you’re planning on attending the IAC in Toronto please do stop by the UK pavilion, stand numbers 309 and 508. I shall look forward to...

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An out-of-this-world Blue Peter competition

Posted by: Libby Jackson, Posted on: 15 September 2014 - Categories: Education
Image of a selection of mission patches

On 4 September, Blue Peter launched their competition for the children of the UK to design the mission patch for European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Tim Peake’s Principia mission to the International Space Station.

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Research in space and the ageing population

Posted by: Andrew Kuh, Posted on: 12 September 2014 - Categories: Space exploration
Image of bedrest volunteers.

Some of the most common questions we hear at the Agency are, "What benefit does space exploration actually have? What’s the point of sending people into space when we’ve so many problems here on Earth to sort out?"

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