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US to spend $625 mn on super-computing research centers
Aug 26, 2020 (AFP)
An additional $340 million will be contributed by the private sector and academic institutions, bringing the total planned investment close to $1 billion, accor...
Spacepath Communications wins large order for solid-state RF power amplifiers
Aug 26, 2020 (SPX)
SpacePath Communications has signed an agreement to supply a leading Asian telecommunications company with its solid-state power amplifiers (SSPA). The latest d...
NOAA selects Orbit Logic for enterprise scheduling
Aug 25, 2020 (SPX)
The Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO) sought a solution to integrate the multiple facets of scheduling for NOAA operations. The EASI system will...
NASA engineers checking InSight's weather sensors
Aug 25, 2020 (JPL)
Called the Auxiliary Payload Sensor Suite (APSS), the sensors collect data on wind speed and direction, air temperature and pressure, and magnetic fields. Throu...
Nellis AFB, Nev., opens pilots' virtual training center
Aug 24, 2020 (UPI)
The Virtual Test and Training Center, ceremonially opened last week, will "house the future of joint aerial combat training," an Air Force statement said. The C...
New ground station brings laser communications closer to reality
Aug 24, 2020 (SPX)
The state-of-the-art ground station, called Optical Ground Station 2 (OGS-2), is the second of two optical ground stations to be built that will collect data tr...
'FreeFortnite' tournament taunts Apple amid legal battle
Aug 21, 2020 (AFP)
"All of your friends. Awesome prizes. And one bad apple," Epic Games said in a post on its website. The "FreeFortnite Cup" is free to enter and prizes include a...
Novel method of heat conduction could be a game changer for server farms and aircraft
Aug 19, 2020 (SPX)
Boreyko was the recipient of a Young Investigator Research Program award in 2016, given by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. This award funded the de...
A bit of gold grants crystals new electric properties
Aug 19, 2020 (UPI)
Crystals are not defined by their chemical contents, but by the ordered, symmetrical structure of their molecules -- material scientists like patterned structur...
Army researchers explore self-healing materials
Aug 19, 2020 (SPX)
The first-of-its-kind, 3-D printable and stimuli-responsive polymeric materials are expected to enable massive reconfigurability in future military platforms, w...
New Flight Simulator game takes off with French studio in cockpit
Aug 18, 2020 (AFP)
The bestselling title dates all the way back to 1982 -- when home computers had less processing power than a graphics card today -- and Microsoft tasked French ...
NASA selects SwRI to participate in $6B Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV Contract
Aug 16, 2020 (SPX)
The Rapid IV contracts serve as a fast and flexible means for the government to acquire spacecraft and related components, equipment and services in support of ...
Apple and Google pull 'Fortnite' from mobile app shops
Aug 14, 2020 (AFP)
The latest version of Fortnite contains a payment system that lets player transactions bypass Apple's App Store and Google's Play, preventing the firms from col...
Altius Space Machines to support on-orbit servicing for the Dynetics Human Landing System
Aug 14, 2020 (SPX)
Leveraging its deep expertise in space robotics, Altius develops on-orbit servicing technology, specializing in on-orbit assembly and manufacturing, orbital ren...
French firm thrusts Microsoft Flight Simulator to new take-off
Aug 14, 2020 (AFP)
With access to Microsoft's Bing satellite mapping and cloud-powered processing, French developers Asobo Studio have sought to render the piloting experience as ...
'Fortnite' maker sues Apple over app restrictions
Aug 13, 2020 (AFP)
Epic Games called on a federal judge to order Apple to stop its "anti-competitive conduct" and invalidate the tech giant's rules requiring app developers to pay...
Laser beams reflected between Earth and Moon boost science
Aug 12, 2020 (SPX)
The reflector NASA scientists aimed for is mounted on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a spacecraft that has been studying the Moon from its orbit since ...
PredaSAR chooses SpaceX to launch its first synthetic aperture radar satellite
Aug 12, 2020 (SPX)
As part of the agreement, PredaSAR, Tyvak, and SpaceX will be working together to optimize the deployment plan for the remainder of PredaSAR's groundbreaking co...
Digital content to total half Earth's mass by 2245
Aug 11, 2020 (UPI)
As more and more raw materials and fossil fuels are used to power the computer systems and servers that support the digital economy, the Earth gets a little sma...
First laser detection of space debris in daylight
Aug 07, 2020 (ESA)
For some time, lasers could only be used to measure the distance to space debris during the few twilight hours in which the 'laser ranging' station on Earth is ...
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