Accurately sensing rotation is important to a variety of technologies, from today's smartphones to navigational instruments that help keep submarines, planes, and satellites on course. In a paper ...

If you want to view the distant Universe with the highest sensitivities and the smallest amounts of contamination possible, your best bet is to go to space. The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in ...

In the age of surveillance paranoia, most smartphone users know better than to give a random app or website permission to use their device's microphone. But researchers have found there's another, ...

Silicon Sensing Systems has been contracted by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) to supply two miniature Pinpoint (CRM200) gyroscopes for the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission. This mission will ...

PARIS — Astrium Satellites and its partner, iXSpace of France, will provide fiber-optic gyroscopes for attitude control aboard the U.S. Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)-1 satellite to be launched ...

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Hubble has run into more trouble. The space telescope slipped into a hibernating state more than a week ago when one of its three remaining gyroscopes—part of the pointing system—malfunctioned. The ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The Hubble Space ...

Researchers discuss “large ring laser gyroscopes” that are six orders of magnitude more sensitive than gyroscopes commercially available. Accurately sensing rotation is important to a variety of ...