THE LASER. It might not be in the top 10 of the most important inventions of all time, but Time magazine rated it among the most important developments of the 20th century, listing it fifth after the ...

Fourteen laser ranging stations participated in a campaign to track ESA's GIOVE-A satellite during the spring and summer of 2006, providing invaluable data for the characterization of the satellite's ...

In a world first, Chinese scientists have successfully carried out satellite laser ranging between Earth and the Moon in broad daylight. This achievement marks a monumental leap in space exploration, ...

Context-dependent scan matching for aided navigation — finding the rotation and translation that best align two consecutive scans — provides laser-ranging data that can be blended into a GNSS ...

German defense firms Rheinmetall and MBDA Germany plan to establish a joint venture in early 2026 to develop and produce ...

Chinese scientists achieved a milestone in space exploration. They successfully conducted satellite laser ranging in Earth-moon space during the day. The team beamed a laser to the Tiandu-1 satellite, ...

China has achieved a milestone feat, making the first-ever laser ranging measurement from Earth to the moon during the daytime. Researchers at Yunnan Observatories under the Chinese Academy of ...

Wuhan, October 21, 2023 — In the realm of technological advancement, Lumispot Tech marked another milestone with its thematic salon, "Illuminating the Future from Lasers," held in Wuhan, a city rich ...

Caption: Laser beams shot to the Moon from Grasse station in France successfully targeted the reflector on the Soviet Union’s old Lunokhod 1 rover. Credit: JEAN-MARIE TORRE, COTE D’AZUR OBSERVATORY ...

Born out of battlefield necessity and sharpened by constant pressure, Ukraine’s Trident laser system shows how a nation at ...

Space junk isn’t going away anytime soon—and neither are the problems it causes. We’re poised to see more satellite launches with every passing year, which means more pieces of rocketry and spacecraft ...