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One ring to bind them all
Dec 10, 2020 (ESA)
The Launch Interface Rings by Additive Manufacturing, LIRAM project took place with Belgian companies Sonaca, CRM and SIRRIS, supported through ESA's General Su...
Germany opens competition probe into Facebook VR headsets
Dec 10, 2020 (AFP)
"Future use of new Oculus glasses should not be possible solely on condition that one has a Facebook account," said watchdog head Andreas Mundt. "This link betw...
Rocket engine 3D parts survive 23 hot-fire tests
Dec 09, 2020 (SPX)
Through a series of hot-fire tests in November, NASA demonstrated that two additively manufactured engine components - a copper alloy combustion chamber and noz...
Marines to join U.S., British military branches for video game tournament
Dec 09, 2020 (UPI)
Six members of the Marines' Quick Reaction Force, chosen from 70 volunteers, will participate against U.S. Amy, Navy, Air Force and Space Force personnel, as we...
New XLAB facility enhances Aerospace's prototyping capabilities
Dec 09, 2020 (SPX)
The 12,000-square-foot space includes a Prototype Design Center, Electronics Testing Lab, Fabrication Lab, Assembly and Integration Lab, as well as open office ...
DoD to adopt flight simulation program for ordinary computers
Dec 08, 2020 (UPI)
According to Air Force Lt. Col. Eric Frahm, the Joint Immersive Training System, or JTS isn't meant to replace simulators or real-time flying but to augment the...
Lincoln Laboratory is designing a payload to integrate on Japanese satellites
Dec 07, 2020 (SPX)
Over the past 30 years, the United States has developed an extensive network of optical and radar sensors that provide observations to enable SDA. As other coun...
New Data Confirm 2020 SO to be the Upper Centaur Rocket Booster from the 1960's
Dec 03, 2020 (JPL)
The object, discovered in September by astronomers searching for near-Earth asteroids from the NASA-funded Pan-STARRS1 survey telescope on Maui, garnered intere...
RUDN University professor suggested how to clean up space debris
Dec 03, 2020 (SPX)
These modules will attach to space debris objects and move them away. As for the geostationary orbit, a preferable way to clean it up would be a towing spacecra...
Microchip offer Low-Power Radiation-Tolerant PolarFire FPGA ahead of spaceflight qualification
Dec 03, 2020 (SPX)
Designers can now create hardware prototypes with all the same electrical and mechanical performance that the space-qualified RT PolarFire FPGAs will provide fo...
Raytheon awarded $235.6M for production of Silent Knight Radar
Dec 01, 2020 (UPI)
Work on this contract will be performed in McKinney and Forest, Miss., and is expected to be completed by July 2025, the Pentagon said. The Silent Knight radar ...
Stanford engineers combine light and sound to see underwater
Dec 01, 2020 (SPX)
The researchers envision their hybrid optical-acoustic system one day being used to conduct drone-based biological marine surveys from the air, carry out large-...
Microfibers could allow pieces of clothing to track a variety of vital signs
Dec 01, 2020 (UPI)
According to a paper published Tuesday in the journal Applied Physics Reviews, microfibers and nanofibers will make it possible for pieces of clothing to keep t...
Recycled concrete could reduce pressure on landfills
Nov 30, 2020 (UPI)
The findings, published Monday in the journal Construction and Building Materials, could help keep rubble out the landfill. For the study, engineers poured recy...
ESA and ClearSpace SA sign contract for world's first debris removal mission
Nov 27, 2020 (ESA)
A New Way to Do Business for ESA At ESA's Space19+ Ministerial Council, ministers granted ESA the funding to place a service contract with a commercial provider...
Move over plastic: desktop 3D printing in metal or ceramics
Nov 26, 2020 (ESA)
ESA-supported startup TIWARI Scientific Instruments in Germany has developed a technique allowing low cost 3D printing using a variety of metals and ceramics. O...
Russian scientists improve 3D printing technology for aerospace composites using oil waste
Nov 26, 2020 (SPX)
Today, the main field of application for aluminum 3D printing is the creation of high-tech parts for the aviation and space industries. The presence of even the...
Using fabric to listen to space dust
Nov 26, 2020 (SPX)
The hope is that this work could lead to thermal blankets for spacecraft, that could act as sensitive detectors for impacting micrometeoroids and space debris. ...
Video games are 'under-regulated': EU anti-terror czar
Nov 26, 2020 (AFP)
The official, Gilles de Kerchove, made the argument ahead of the European Commission's presentation on December 9 of a proposed Digital Services Act that aims t...
Cracking the secrets of an emerging branch of physics
Nov 22, 2020 (SPX)
Thanh Nguyen is in the habit of breaking down barriers. Take languages, for instance: Nguyen, a third-year doctoral candidate in nuclear science and engineering...
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