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Raytheon's ANY/TPY-2 radar supports SM-3 in intercept test
Dec 10, 2015 (UPI)
A Raytheon-built Standard Missile-3 Block IB with support by AN/TPY-2 radar was used to destroy a ballistic missile target in a test by the Missile Defense Agen...
EDRS-A and its laser are ready to fly
Dec 10, 2015 (ESA)
After a year-long wait in storage for a Proton rocket to become available, the EDRS-A laser communications payload and its Eutelsat host satellite are finally a...
Penn researchers make thinnest plates that can be picked up by hand
Dec 09, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists and engineers are engaged in a global race to make new materials that are as thin, light and strong as possible. These properties can be achieved by ...
Conductor turned insulator amid disorder
Dec 08, 2015 (SPX)
Some materials that are inherently disordered display unusual conductivity, sometimes behaving like insulators and sometimes like conductors. Physicists have no...
Cambridge Pixel provides Korean air bases with radar trackers
Dec 08, 2015 (UPI)
Cambridge Pixel has supplied Hanwha Thales Corporation with radar trackers to be used at air force bases for the Republic of Korea. The trackers will enhance th...
Space Debris - A Growth Industry?
Dec 08, 2015 (SPX)
Early in 2015, an expired military weather satellite, Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Flight 13, exploded in a sun synchronous orbit. The offici...
Russia's Kanopus-ST Research Satellite Deorbited, Heading to Earth
Dec 08, 2015 (Sputnik)
The deorbiting of the Russian Kanopus-ST remote sensing satellite for ocean and weather research is currently underway, a space industries source said Monday. T...
World's tiniest temperature sensor can track movement from inside cement
Dec 07, 2015 (UPI)
Researchers in the Netherlands have developed a tiny wireless temperature sensor powered by radio waves. The technology, still in its infancy, could one day pow...
In-Space Manufacturing Prototype
Dec 07, 2015 (SPX)
Magna Parva has produced a prototype in-orbit manufacturing system that should provide a method of producing huge carbon composite 3D structures in space. A pro...
Researchers discover mother of pearl production process
Dec 07, 2015 (UPI)
Researchers at Cornell University have uncovered the process by which mollusks make nacre, also known as "mother of pearl." Materials scientists say they can us...
Seeking a new generation of light-based sensing systems
Dec 06, 2015 (SPX)
Find a way to replace a large, heavy and expensive technology with an equivalent one that's a lot smaller, lighter and cheaper and you have a shot at turning a ...
Tiny octopods catalyze bright ideas
Dec 04, 2015 (SPX)
Nanoscale octopods that do double duty as catalysts and plasmonic sensors are lighting a path toward more efficient industrial processes, according to a Rice Un...
Liquid foam: Plastic, elastic and fluid
Dec 04, 2015 (SPX)
What differentiates complex fluids from mere fluids? What makes them unique is that they are neither solid nor liquid. Among such complex fluids are foams. They...
Doping powers new thermoelectric material
Dec 03, 2015 (SPX)
In the production of power, nearly two-thirds of energy input from fossil fuels is lost as waste heat. Industry is hungry for materials that can convert this he...
Magnetic fields detected near black hole at Milky Way center
Dec 03, 2015 (UPI)
For the first time, astronomers have observed magnetic fields just outside a black hole's event horizon. The fields were located near the supermassive black hol...
A new form of real gold, almost as light as air
Dec 03, 2015 (SPX)
A nugget of real 20 carats gold, so light that it does not sink in a cappuccino, floating instead on the milk foam - what sounds unbelievable has actually been ...
Aerojet Rocketdyne completes build of 3-D printed parts for Orion spacecraft
Dec 03, 2015 (SPX)
Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed 12 additively manufactured production nozzle extensions for use aboard the Orion spacecraft. The nozzle extensions are part of ...
U.S. Army Europe to request additional aviation support
Dec 03, 2015 (UPI)
U.S. Army Europe plans to formally request additional aviation support from regionally-aligned forces, citing limited capabilities due to budget cuts. U.S. Army...
New 'self-healing' gel makes electronics more flexible
Dec 03, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a first-of-its-kind self-healing gel that repairs and conn...
Dimensionality transition in a newly created material
Dec 03, 2015 (SPX)
Iron oxides occur in nature in many forms, often significantly different from each other in terms of structure and physical properties. However, a new variety o...
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