TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

Predicting the Lifespan of Materials in Space

Mar 21, 2018 (SPX)

It is vital for scientists to know exactly how long a material will last in outer space; which is why Kim de Groh, a senior materials research engineer at NASA'...

On The Horizon: A Space Renaissance

Mar 20, 2018 (SPX)

The new US administration has moved swiftly to reinstate a newly constituted National Space Council and in their first meeting on October 5th, 2017, directed NA...

NASA Marshall advances 3-D printed rocket engine nozzle technology

Mar 20, 2018 (SPX)

A new process called Laser Wire Direct Closeout (LWDC) was developed and advanced at NASA to build a less-expensive nozzle in significantly less time. LWDC is a...

Reconsidering damage production and radiation mixing in materials

Mar 20, 2018 (SPX)

The standard approach to estimating the radiation damage in materials analytically has been for more than 60 years a simple equation, known as "Kinchin-Pease". ...

A new way to combine soft materials

Mar 20, 2018 (SPX)

Current methods to combine soft materials are limited, relying on glues or surface treatments that can restrict the manufacturing process. For example, it doesn...

Raytheon contracted for Cobra Dane radar support

Mar 19, 2018 (UPI)

The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $511 million under the terms of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity cont...

ORNL researchers design novel method for energy-efficient deep neural networks

Mar 16, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers are realizing the potential of deep learning to rapidly advance science, but "training" the underlying neural networks with large volumes of data to...

UNH researchers find space radiation is increasingly more hazardous

Mar 16, 2018 (SPX)

"The radiation dose rates from measurements obtained over the last four years exceeded trends from previous solar cycles by at least 30 percent, showing that th...

NASA, ATLAS to Mature Portable Space Communications Technology

Mar 15, 2018 (SPX)

NASA and ATLAS Space Operations, based in Traverse City, Michigan, are collaborating to test and develop this technology. The company's compact, internet-manage...

CosmoQuest releases Mappers 2.0 for crater mapping

Mar 14, 2018 (SPX)

CosmoQuest's Mappers software is produced at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific under the principal investigator Dr. Pamela L. Gay. The science teams for M...

BridgeSat and NASA Sign Space Act Agreement for Laser Communications

Mar 14, 2018 (SPX)

The reimbursable agreement is the latest milestone in BridgeSat's mission to revolutionize global communications with a free-space optical network for low earth...

Researchers use 'flying focus' to better control lasers over long distances

Mar 13, 2018 (SPX)

Say instead of focusing the sun's light on the ground, you wanted to focus the light on a piece of paper. Then imagine that piece of paper was moving. If you wa...

Scientists Declare War on Space Radiation

Mar 12, 2018 (Sputnik)

"During our work on this strategy we put together a team of leading scientists from Russia, NASA, the European Space Agency, the Canadian Radiation Center and m...

Lockheed Martin delivers first of 3 radars to Latvian military

Mar 11, 2018 (UPI)

The TPS-77 Multi-Role Radar, purchased for an undisclosed cost in a 2015 contract, recently completed an on-site acceptance test and will increase the Latvian a...

New imaging technology shows laser pulses are formed from chaos

Mar 09, 2018 (UPI)

Lasers, invented in the 1960s, have become a mainstay of science and technology, but surprisingly, scientists still don't entirely understand the laser pulse fo...

Commercial Satellite Built by Maxar Technologies' SSL Successfully Begins On-Orbit Operations, Demonstrating Leadership in New Space Economy

Mar 08, 2018 (SPX)

It will begin firing its main thruster tomorrow to propel toward its final geostationary orbit. The satellite incorporates technical innovations that will help ...

Navy turns to Raytheon for radar upgrades

Mar 08, 2018 (UPI)

The deal, which the Department of Defense announced Wednesday, is valued at more than $19.9 million under the terms of cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The agreeme...

Russia successfully tests first atmospheric satellite

Mar 08, 2018 (Sputnik)

"Sova's tests in the stratosphere in the summer of 2017 were successful. There was a long flight at an altitude of about 20,000 meters (66,000 feet). Unfortunat...

InDyne to support Solid State Phased Array Radar System

Mar 06, 2018 (UPI)

The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $417.7 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price contract. The agreement bet...

Technique to see objects hidden around corners

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

This scenario is one of many that researchers at Stanford University are imagining for a system that can produce images of objects hidden from view. They are fo...