Hardware Podcasts

38. Time Traveling With The James Webb Telescope

The Next Byte Podcast · 5 Oct 2021 · 23m

What this episode covers

Hosts Daniel Scott Mitchell and Farbod Moghaddam discuss Professor Namiko Yamamoto’s NASA-funded research at Penn State on how concrete cures in microgravity, noting that trapped air bubbles reduce compressive strength and require modeling via NASA’s NASMAT tool for lunar construction. They highlight a Mouser Electronics challenge where winner Andy Philo designed a 3D-printed deployment mechanism for 'femtosatellites' that was successfully used by astronauts on the ISS. The episode concludes with an overview of the James Webb Space Telescope, explaining how its infrared capabilities allow it to peer through cosmic dust to observe galaxies from 250 million years after the Big Bang, surpassing the Hubble telescope's visible-light limitations.

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Companies
Penn State, NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, United Launch Alliance, Branch Technologies, Varda Space, Mouser Electronics, European Space Agency, Canadian Space Agency
Products
James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble
Tools
NASMAT
Also
ISS, Andy Philo

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