Rocket Lab's secretive launch last month was a hypersonic test for the US military (photos)

Rocket Lab's last launch was a US military hypersonic test | Space Quiz! Where on Mars is NASA's Curiosity Rover? | 'Great Filter' could explain why we haven't found aliens Created for znamenski.spacecom@blogger.com |  Web Version December 11, 2024 CONNECT WITH SPACE.COM       Something amazing every day. SIGN UP ⋅   WEBSITE   The Launchpad Rocket Lab's last launch was a US military hypersonic test (Rocket Lab) Rocket Lab's pioneering suborbital launch last month conducted hypersonic tests for the U.S. military, the company has revealed. The mission in question lifted off on Nov. 24 from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) on Virginia's Wallops Island. It employed HASTE, the suborbital variant of Rocket Lab's workhorse Electron launcher. Less than 22 hours later, an Electron lofted five "Internet of Things" satellites to orbit for the French company Kinéis, notching an unprecedented spaceflight doubleheader for Rocket Lab. Full Story: Space (12/10)  Space Quiz! 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100th woman in space, Emily Calandrelli, stands up to 'small men' on the internet: 'I should have expected this.'

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Seminars Digest, Vol 70, Issue 3

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1). Александр Садовников (СГУ, Саратов)
Interconnection in magnonic networks: functional building blocks for an alternative controllable way of spin-wave and quantum computation

The content of the talk is devoted to the possible integration of magnonic devices and interconnection between them with the use of magnonics, straintronics, spin-orbitronics. In recent years much research has been directed towards the use of spin waves for signal processing at microwave and subterahertz frequencies due to the possibility to carry the information signal without the transmission of a charge current. Recent theoretical and experimental studies suggest that strain can be used to engineer energy-efficient complicated 2D and 3D material and heterostructures. The main topic of the talk will be focused on the application of the magnonic unit for signal processing and interconnection routes in the magnonic networks. The part of the talk will be devoted to the the experimental observations of the strain-mediated spin-wave coupling phenomena in different magnonic structures based on the asymmetric adjacent magnonic crystals, adjacent magnetic yttrium iron garnet stripes and array of magnetic stripes, which demonstrates the collective spin-wave phenomena such as the discrete soliton formation. The voltage-controlled spin-wave transport along bilateral magnonic stripes was demonstrated. The model describing the spin-wave transmission response and predicting its value is proposed based on the self-consistent equations. It was shown that the strain-mediated spin-wave channels can be used to route the magnonic information signal and thus the composite magnon-straintronic structure could be used to fabricate magnonic platforms for energy-efficient signal processing. The obtained results open new perspectives for the future-generation electronics using integrated magnonic networks.

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