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"Some missions are using more than what their paperwork would say."

Quantum Space says SPACs aren't dead as it seeks a $1.2 billion deal to build military spacecraft.

The spaceman wears Prada.

Elon Musk is set to make hundreds of billions even as communities in Mississippi and Tennessee are fighting to stop the gas turbines powering xAI's supercomputers.

A former xAI engineer is suing the company and SpaceX, alleging he was fired for raising AI safety concerns about Grok days before SpaceX's historic IPO.

"I was on the phone with Blue Origin leadership that night, all the next day, all through the weekend."

Problems with Starlink's India expansion could challenge SpaceX's IPO growth story.

Most of the value in SpaceX's IPO is effectively a call option on the company's ambitious space data center plans.

"Artemis III will be an extraordinary demonstration of what is possible."

Orbital founder Euwyn Poon built 250,000 scooters at Spin. Now he wants to launch 10,000 space data centers.

The waiver "serves the public interest by promoting a second large satellite broadband constellation."

Mystery of GPS interference across Europe raises questions about Russian motives.

"It is actually challenging how you measure [Mach] from space."

We take the Falcon 9 rocket for granted. But we probably shouldn't.

Axiom has showed off its new spacesuit's inner layer, designed to keep astronauts cool on the moon.

We've seen Axiom Space and Prada's collaboration on the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit. Now the company has revealed the Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment (LCVG) that astronauts will wear underneath it when Artemis IV returns humans to the Moon in 2028. The LCVG is the all-important base layer that will keep the crew […]

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NASA is targeting an August 30 launch for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which has 100 times Hubble's field of view.

New simulations reveal that the moons of Uranus may retain traces of giant planets.

If you're building or integrating Automated Test Equipment for aerospace or defence electronics, the technical requirements go well beyond "does the test pass." You need documentation that satisfies MIL-STD, AS9100, and DO-178C auditors — and an architecture that scales from prototype to production. Here's how modern Universal ATE systems are structured for defence-grade compliance. The Core Architecture A defence-grade ATE system has four functional layers: ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Test Executive (LabVIEW) │ ← Orchestrates all test sequences ├────────────────┬────────────────────────┤ │ Instrument │ DUT Interface │ ← Hardware layer │ Control │ (ICT/JTAG/Func) │ ├────────────────┴────────────────────────┤ │ Data Management Layer │ ← Logging, traceability, reports ├─────────────────────────────────────────┤ │ Calibration & Verification │ ← Ensures measurement accuracy └─────────────────────────────────────────┘ Test Executive Design in LabVIEW The test executive controls the sequence, manages results, and handles failures. Key design principles: Test Sequence: 1. DUT identification (serial number scan or manual entry) 2. Pre-test self-check (verify instrument calibration status) 3. ICT phase — passive component verification 4. JTAG boundary scan — IEEE 1149.1 interconnect verification 5. Power-on functional test — operational verification 6. RF/signal analysis — if applicable to DUT type 7. Report generation — automatic, timestamped 8. Pass/fail disposition record JTAG Integration via IEEE 1149.1 For high-density boards where bed-of-nails is not viable, JTAG boundary scan is implemented via a JTAG controller (e.g., XJTAG, Corelis, or ASSET InterTech) integrated into the LabVIEW environment: LabVIEW → JTAG Controller API → Scan Chain → DUT ICs The boundary scan description files (BSDL) for each IC define the test vectors. Your test executive loads BSDL files, generates scan chain topology, and runs interconnect tests automatically. Data Traceabili