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Mapping the Moon and Worlds Beyond
Jul 18, 2019 (SPX)
"See that little antenna sticking out there? That was the first planetary radar on a spacecraft, and while it went around the moon, it pinged the surface," she ...
Raytheon nets $40.2M for variants of Navy's AN/SPY-6 radar
Jul 17, 2019 (UPI)
The contract, announced on Tuesday, exercises an option for fiscal 2019 production long lead material in support of the production of two configurations of the ...
Radiation levels at Marshall Islands test sites 10 times greater than Chernobyl
Jul 16, 2019 (UPI)
In the 1940s and '50s, federal officials forcibly removed inhabitants from several of the Marshall Islands, a collection of coral atolls in the Pacific, to make...
Stonehenge construction may have been aided by lots of pig fat
Jul 16, 2019 (UPI)
New research suggests lard may have played a surprisingly important role in the monument-building enterprise. Over the years, researchers have solved several of...
New developments with Chinese satellites over the past decade
Jul 13, 2019 (SPX)
"The FY series satellite program has gone through four main stages," according to Dr. Peng Zheng, Deputy Director at the National Satellite Meteorological Cente...
NASA funds demo of 3D-Printed spacecraft parts made, assembled in orbit
Jul 13, 2019 (SPX)
The contract is the start of the second phase of a partnership established through NASA's Tipping Point solicitation. The public-private partnership combines NA...
Boeing selects Raytheon for B-52 radar replacement
Jul 12, 2019 (UPI)
Raytheon will design, develop, produce and sustain active electronically scanned array radar systems for the USAF's fleet of 77 B-52 bombers, Raytheon announced...
Perseverance is key to NASA's advancement of alloys for bearings and gears
Jul 11, 2019 (SPX)
It started in 2004, when Glenn Glennon - an employee of Connecticut's Abbott Ball Company - talked to DellaCorte about applying Nitinol (a nickel-titanium alloy...
Tungsten as interstellar radiation shielding?
Jul 11, 2019 (SPX)
Based on these findings, not only the tungsten biogeochemistry, but also the survivability of microorganisms in outer space conditions can be investigated. The ...
New high-definition satellite radar can detect bridges at risk of collapse from space
Jul 11, 2019 (SPX)
Combining data from a new generation of satellites with a sophisticated algorithm, the monitoring system could be used by governments or developers to act as a ...
Astroscale advances debris removal concept through ESA and OneWeb Sunrise Project
Jul 11, 2019 (SPX)
The Sunrise Project, which is a part of the ESA ARTES programme, was created to develop technologies for future generation telecommunication satellite missions ...
First observation of native ferroelectric metal
Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)
The study represents the first example of a native metal with bistable and electrically switchable spontaneous polarization states - the hallmark of ferroelectr...
Amateur astronomers play a part in efforts to keep space safe
Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)
Amateur astronomers from the Basingstoke Astronomical Society have been helping the Ministry of Defence explore what is possible using high-end consumer equipme...
BAE nets $4.7M by DARPA to integrate machine learning into RF signals detection
Jul 08, 2019 (UPI)
The technology will be used in platforms to decipher the signals, BAE said in a news release Monday. Signals intelligence, or SIGINT, provides to the military a...
Gene-editing enzymes imaged in 3D
Jul 08, 2019 (UPI)
The breakthrough -- described Monday in the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology -- helped scientists see exactly how the gene-editing technology cal...
RUBI - Full steam ahead for the ISS
Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is set to install RUBI in the Columbus module of the ISS during his five-month 'Beyond' mission (from July to December 2019). The f...
The world needs a global agenda for sand
Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)
In a commentary published in the journal Nature, a group of scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Illinois, the University of Hu...
Molecular thumb drives: Researchers store digital images in metabolite molecules
Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)
A study led by Brown University researchers shows that it's possible to store and retrieve data stored in artificial metabolomes - arrays of liquid mixtures con...
Would your mobile phone be powerful enough to get you to the moon?
Jul 05, 2019 (The Conversation)
This seems surprising. After all, when we reflect on this historic event, it is often said that we now have more computing power in our pocket than the computer...
ATLAS expands on-orbit customer base, bolsters global ground network
Jul 03, 2019 (SPX)
ATLAS is tasked with providing ground station operations as well as telemetry, command, and data support for both BlackSky and NOAA's newly deployed satellites....
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