TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

Aug 07, 2020 (ESA)

The Light Detection and Ranging instrument, or LIDAR, is a remote sensing technique that uses light to study an object. A pulsed laser beam is aimed at the targ...

Scientists find way to track space junk in daylight

Aug 04, 2020 (AFP)

Defunct rockets, satellites and spacecraft parts continue to orbit Earth after they are discarded. The estimated 500,000 objects circling the globe range in siz...

Transforming e-waste into a strong, protective coating for metal

Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)

Now, in ACS Omega, researchers report a selective, small-scale microrecycling strategy, which they use to convert old printed circuit boards and monitor compone...

At Aerospace: How Internships Went Virtual

Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)

While telework lends itself acceptably to most corporate functions in our industry, Aerospace's world-class facilities and labs have traditionally been utilized...

How to mix old tires and building rubble to make sustainable roads

Aug 03, 2020 (SPX)

Construction, renovation and demolition account for about half the waste produced annually worldwide, while around 1 billion scrap tyres are generated globally ...

Pentagon aims to continue supporting telework

Jul 30, 2020 (UPI)

"There's a lot of pilots going on right now on how we pivot [the Commercial Virtual Remote Environment] from an [impact level] 2 world to an [impact level] 5 wo...

Hole in none: how screen golf got serious in South Korea

Jul 29, 2020 (AFP)

In front of him it circled the hole, making a rattling sound as it dropped, and Ha raised his fist in triumph, taking victory and a 20 million won ($17,000) win...

Chemists make tough plastics recyclable

Jul 27, 2020 (SPX)

MIT chemists have now developed a way to modify thermoset plastics with a chemical linker that makes the materials much easier to break down, but still allows t...

Spaceflight Inc chooses Tethers Unlimited's Terminator Tape to deorbit of Orbit Transfer Vehicle

Jul 27, 2020 (SPX)

When the orbit transfer vehicle's mission is completed, a timer release system will deploy the Terminator Tape to rapidly deorbit the Sherpa-FX vehicle so that ...

Texas firm develops adaptable satellites with fast software upgrades

Jul 27, 2020 (UPI)

Austin-based Hypergiant, which works on several kinds of artificial intelligence, has a formal but classified agreement to develop technology for the Air Force,...

Battelle Energy Alliance seeks industry partners to design nuclear power system for Moon

Jul 27, 2020 (Sputnik)

The US Department of Energy has recently put out a request to the private sector to construct nuclear power plants capable of operating beyond the boundaries of...

Loft Orbital selects LeoStella to supply satellites for Space Infrastructure-as-a-Service

Jul 23, 2020 (SPX)

Under the contract, Seattle-area LeoStella will use its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility, which opened in 2019, to produce multiple satellites based on E...

Microsoft sees growth amid pandemic computing demands

Jul 22, 2020 (AFP)

Profits in the quarter ending June 30 fell 15 percent to $11.2 billion, the result of increased tax charges compared with a year ago. Revenue meanwhile rose 13 ...

First new AN/SPY-6(V)1 radar delivered for installation on USS Jack H. Lucas

Jul 21, 2020 (UPI)

"SPY-6 will change how the Navy conducts surface fleet operations," said Capt. Jason Hall, program manager for Above-Water Sensors for the U.S. Navy's Program E...

Parts come together this year for DARPA's robotic in-space mechanic

Jul 21, 2020 (SPX)

Earlier this year, DARPA partnered with Space Logistics LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman, to provide the spacecraft bus, launch, and operation...

World leading experts to spearhead $20m of space sector by SmartSat CRC

Jul 21, 2020 (SPX)

Adelaide University, Swinburne University and University of South Australia are the first universities to announce three professorial chairs today.These experts...

NASA's Next Laser Communications Demo Installed, Integrated on Spacecraft

Jul 20, 2020 (SPX)

As an experimental payload, LCRD will demonstrate the robust capabilities of laser communications, which can provide significant benefits to missions, including...

Scientists discover how deep-sea, ultra-black fish disappear

Jul 20, 2020 (SPX)

In the July 16 issue of the journal Current Biology, a team of scientists led by Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History research zoologist Karen Osbor...

In Sweden, a 'second-hand' mall draws big crowds

Jul 19, 2020 (AFP)

The mall, located an hour's train ride west of Stockholm in the city of Eskilstuna, consists of 13 stores and covers 5,000 square metres (54,000 square feet), e...

AFRL and Compass Technology Group collaborate on specialty material techniques

Jul 17, 2020 (SPX)

These projects provide much-needed diagnostic capability to be used in manufacturing and/or field measurements and maintenance. These technologies are key in de...