Webb’s images of deep space and deep past wouldn’t be possible without region’s companies
The James Webb Space Telescope, which is allowing us to peer billions of years into the past, was built and launched with the help of 14 countries, a $10 billion NASA fund, and more than 300 agencies, universities and companies — including a handful in the tri-county region. NASA’s first batch of images from the Read More →
Webb Telescope counts on Teledyne for infrared vision
More than a dozen infrared sensors manufactured by Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies were aboard the James Webb Space Telescope, which successfully launched into space Dec. 25. The James Webb Space Telescope launch was conducted in collaboration with NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, cost approximately $10 billion, and is the largest Read More →
AeroVironment’s drone still grounded on Mars
Ingenuity, the helicopter drone developed by Simi Valley-based AeroVironment, has had its first experimental flight on Mars delayed after an error sequence during testing, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Ingenuity, which landed on Mars on the Perseverance rover in February, was scheduled for its first takeoff on April 11. NASA first rescheduled Read More →
Saalex, AeroVironment help NASA get to Mars with morning Perseverance launch
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Setting a course from Simi Valley to Mars
Before it could be loaded onto the rocket for its impending interplanetary launch, AeroVironment’s helicopter design had to thread a tight needle between weight and durability. The mission, which is set to launch between July 30 and Aug. 15 with the Perseverance rover, will be a first-of-its-kind test flight of an aircraft on Mars. The Read More →
NASA selects Cal Poly students to find water on Mars
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Google makes breakthrough in quantum computing at South Coast lab
Google has developed a computer that’s reached “quantum supremacy,” performing a computation in 200 seconds that would take the fastest supercomputers about 10,000 years, Bloomberg News reported. The results of Google’s tests, which were conducted using a quantum chip it developed in-house at its lab in Goleta, were published Oct. 23 in the scientific journal Read More →
