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Wobbling droplets in space confirm late professor's theory
Aug 19, 2022 (SPX)
Specifically, the space station's microgravity environment illuminated the ways that water droplets oscillate and spread across solid surfaces - knowledge that ...
Software-defined satellite enters commercial service
Aug 18, 2022 (ESA)
Satellite operator Eutelsat has sold six of its eight beams - used for data and mobile communications - to organisations including governments and other users. ...
Matter at extreme temperature and pressure turns out to be remarkably simple and universal
Aug 15, 2022 (SPX)
Previously, while the behaviour of matter at reasonably low temperature and pressure was well understood, the picture of matter at high temperature and pressure...
Pitt is the only university in the U.S. with this giant 3D printer for metal
Aug 12, 2022 (SPX)
For producing big, specialized metal parts, the machine is unbeatable, said Albert To, William Kepler Whiteford Professor in the Swanson School of Engineering a...
New quantum whirlpools with tetrahedral symmetries discovered in a superfluid
Aug 12, 2022 (SPX)
Led by researchers from Amherst College in the US and the University of East Anglia and Lancaster University in the UK, their new paper details the first labora...
The future of NASA's laser communications
Aug 12, 2022 (SPX)
"We are thrilled by the promise laser communications will offer in the coming years," says Badri Younes, deputy associate administrator and program manager for ...
Building the best zeolite
Aug 12, 2022 (SPX)
So important is the use of zeolites that decades ago scientists began making them (synthetic ones) in the lab with the total number of crystal structures exceed...
New programmable materials can sense their own movements
Aug 11, 2022 (SPX)
To accomplish this, the researchers began with 3D-printed lattice materials and incorporated networks of air-filled channels into the structure during the print...
Antaris close seed funding round to accelerate development of software solutions for space
Aug 11, 2022 (SPX)
"We created Antaris to make space easy," said Tom Barton, Co-Founder and CEO of Antaris. "Our platform dramatically simplifies the way satellites are designed, ...
Benchmark to keep popular orbits safer with collision avoidance kit
Aug 10, 2022 (SPX)
Benchmark's COLA Kit will leverage innovations in space domain awareness and traffic management data technologies through strategic partnerships and collaborati...
Kayhan Space unveils next-gen spaceflight safety platform
Aug 10, 2022 (SPX)
Capella Space, Globalstar, and Lynk Global are among an initial group of leading operators using Kayhan's subscription-based, autonomous Pathfinder platform fol...
Scientists have created optical fibers with unusual properties
Aug 09, 2022 (SPX)
"This opens up the prospect of application of light guides made of the obtained fibers in conditions of intense ionizing radiation. That is, not only in the tra...
Spaceflight and SAB partner to fly Sherpa OTVs on Vega missions
Aug 09, 2022 (SPX)
"We continue to see growing customer interest in launches that can deliver a variety of payload types and sizes to specific orbital destinations," said Curt Bla...
Spaceflight prepares propulsive Sherpa OTV to launch on upcoming Starlink mission
Aug 09, 2022 (SPX)
The high-thrust propulsive Sherpa will deploy from SpaceX's Falcon 9 targeting a 310-kilometer circular orbit, before igniting and transporting an undisclosed c...
What are the chances space debris could hit someone or damage property
Aug 08, 2022 (SPX)
On Saturday there was the uncontrolled re-entry of a Chinese Long March 5B rocket over Malaysia. Yesterday outlets reported on some spacecraft parts that turned...
Pure gold pin for space testing
Aug 08, 2022 (ESA)
All missions that orbit less than about 1000 km above Earth's surface must be designed to resist atomic oxygen. To realistically simulate the low-Earth orbit en...
Quasar to deliver space data as a service
Aug 05, 2022 (SPX)
The computer science engineer and business technology expert also has a keen interest in data and analytics. "How you make data consumable and present it as inf...
A better way to quantify radiation damage in materials
Aug 04, 2022 (SPX)
A tiny titanium nut that had been removed from inside the reactor was just the kind of material needed to prove that this new technique, developed at MIT and at...
Madrid Flight On Chip project wraps up design process
Aug 03, 2022 (SPX)
The Madrid Flight on Chip (MFOC) project was born in early 2019, as an action co-financed by the Madrid Regional Government and the European Union funds, ERDF. ...
Researchers improve cement with shrimp shell nanoparticles
Aug 03, 2022 (SPX)
Reporting in the journal Cement and Concrete Composites, a team of Washington State University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers created nan...
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