#GOES17, now operational as #GOESWest monitors an atmospheric river bringing heavy rain and snow to California in this RGB (red-green-blue) air mass imagery from February 13, 2019. The RBG air mass product is used to monitor the evolution ... Read More
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Feb2019
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Apr2017
A new image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows planet Earth as a point of light between the icy rings of Saturn.
The spacecraft captured the view on April 12, 2017, at 10:41 p.m. PDT (1:41 a.m. EDT on April 13). Cassini was 870 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers) away from Earth ... Read More
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Nov2016
NOAA Satellite and Information Service
November 21 at 7:14am
NOAA's GOES-R satellite launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida this weekend at 6:42pm on November ... Read More
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Jul2016
Unlocking Jupiter's Secrets with LUXEL Meshed Carbon/ LUXFilm® Polyimide/ Carbon and meshed Carbon/ LUXFilm® Polyimide/ Aluminum Filters
Juno will improve our understanding of the solar system's beginnings by revealing the origin and evolution of Jupiter.... Read More
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May2016
A "plasma wind" envelops a Krypton-filled target at the center of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) target chamber as lasers pummel the target with 700 kilojoules of energy.
Check out experimental highlights and more on the NIF website:https://lasers.llnl.gov/news.
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Feb2016
Luxel is proud to have fabricated multiple filters aboard the Japanese satellite Hitomi (formerly ASTRO-H). These include:
Thermal Shields
Microcalorimeter Optical Filters
Contamination Blocking Filters
Focal Plane Filters
JAXA press release below...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) confirmed that the X-ray Astronomy Satellite (ASTRO-H) has deployed its solar array paddles ... Read More
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Oct2015
Luxel built LUXFilm® Polyimide/ Carbon filters for the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft that launched in 1997. The flight reached its research target Saturn in 2004, and shortly thereafter the Huygens probe separated and landed on the moon Titan while the Cassini spacecraft entered Saturn's orbit. The mission has been providing data from the ... Read More
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Sep2015
Luxel provides 100nm Parlyene/ 100nm Aluminum standard filters that fits into Princeton Instrument’s PI-MTE X-ray imaging systems. With a 32mm x 32mm aperture, the filter offer high soft x-ray transmission and excellent visible light ... Read More
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Sep2015
In our first newsletter, we described the background of the New Horizons mission to Pluto. On July 14, 2015, after nine years of travel, the spacecraft successfully ... Read More
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Sep2015
One of our favorite summer traditions in the San Juan Islands is the annual county fair held in Friday Harbor every August. It includes amusement park rides, carnival games, and cotton candy like any American summer fair, but ... Read More