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Build-a-satellite program could fast track national security space missions
June 8, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Satellites equipped with remote sensing technology execute many critical national security missions, from detecting explosions to tracking sea ice, but until now it could take a team years to move from a concept to a deployable space system. Valhalla, a Python-based performance modeling framework developed at Sandia...
Categories: Computing, Science / Technology / Engineering, Space / Astronomy
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Thomas Bradshaw inspects a computer board

Sandia-developed solar cell technology reaches space
September 29, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Somewhere among the glitter of the night sky is a small satellite powered by innovative, next-generation solar cell technology developed at Sandia National Laboratories.[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Former Sandia National Laboratories s…
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U.S. Navy experience shows climate alterations, invited speaker at Sandia Labs says
March 29, 2012 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Because its presence is worldwide, the U.S. Navy sees the effects of climate change directly, an invited lecturer in Sandia National Laboratories’ ongoing Climate Change and National Security Speaker Series recently told his scientific audience in Albuquerque and, by teleconference, Livermore, Calif. “The findings are independent of climate...
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MTI satellite continues to serve after 10 years in orbit
April 19, 2010 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – For engineers and scientists at Sandia, the evening of Friday, March 12, marked a proud moment in exceptional service to the nation. Hundreds of miles above the Earth, the Multispectral Thermal Imager satellite reached its 10th anniversary of service as it completed its 55,000th orbit — far...
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Brian Post stands under an antenna at the ground station at Sandia National Labs during the MTI satellite’s 55,000th orbit (photo by Randy Montoya).