Diamonds are forever

1997-02-19T00:00:00

Hughes Space and Communications has won $2.6 million from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to study the use of commercial-grade diamonds to extend the lifetime of high-power transponders on communications satellites. Man-made diamonds would also allow transponders to be used at higher power.

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