TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

Australian broadband satellite begins post-launch maneuvers

Oct 05, 2015 (SPX)

Space Systems/Loral (SSL) reports that Australia's new broadband satellite is performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan. The high capacity broadband sa...

Thousand-fold fluorescence enhancement in an all-polymer thin film

Oct 05, 2015 (SPX)

Griffith University scientists have made a remarkable breakthrough in the field of fluorescence enhancement via a discovery they believe could drive the next ad...

ESA entrusts Indra with data storage for the Sentinel 2B satellite

Oct 05, 2015 (SPX)

Indra will be in charge of storing at its data center in San Fernando de Henares (Madrid) the images of the future optical Earth observation satellite, the Sent...

WPI team recovers rare earths from electric and hybrid vehicle motors

Oct 05, 2015 (SPX)

In an effort to help develop a sustainable domestic supply of rare earth elements and lessen the United States' dependence on China for materials that are vital...

Controlling evaporative patterning transitions

Oct 02, 2015 (SPX)

Water, soup, wet paint and other liquids often leave stains as they dry. They include "coffee rings" from dried coffee droplets, soup stains on the dining table...

Lockheed's Space Fence Program Completes Critical Design Review

Oct 01, 2015 (SPX)

Lockheed Martin's (LMT) Space Fence System, including the large-scale digital radar and turn-key facility were deemed technically mature and provided evidence t...

The rise of X-ray beam chemistry

Oct 01, 2015 (SPX)

For scientists to understand a system, they often push it to its limits. In geochemistry, that means putting minerals under extreme conditions and watching how ...

U.S. Army awards Honeywell $41 million for APN-209 radar

Sep 30, 2015 (UPI)

The U.S. Army has awarded Honeywell $41 million to continue supplying combat-proven radar altimeters for its helicopters, Honeywell announced on Wednesday. The ...

Latvia orders Sentinel 3-D radars

Sep 30, 2015 (UPI)

Latvia has ordered mobile three-dimensional phased-array radar systems from ThalesRaytheonSystems for detecting, identifying and tracking airborne threats. The ...

Pentagon delays JSTARS acquisition

Sep 29, 2015 (UPI)

Pentagon officials have prevented the recapitalization program for the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, further delaying the acquisition process. ...

Lockheed Martin moves forward with Space Fence program

Sep 28, 2015 (UPI)

U.S. government officials approved Lockheed Martin's design for their Space Fence system, which includes a large-scale digital radar and a turn-key facility, th...

Italian collective unveils world's largest 3-D printer

Sep 26, 2015 (UPI)

The world's largest 3-D printer is capable of building clay dwellings aimed to be used to supplement a growing global housing crisis. Italian collective WASP --...

ORNL integrated energy demo connects 3-D printed building, vehicle

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

A research demonstration unveiled at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory combines clean energy technologies into a 3D-printed building and ...

Southampton chemists create switchable gold catalyst

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

A gold catalyst whose behaviour can be controlled by the addition of acid or metal ion cofactors has been designed by chemists from the University of Southampto...

Frustrated magnets point towards new memory

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

Theoretical physicists from the University of Groningen, supported by the FOM Foundation, have discovered that so-called 'frustrated magnets' can produce skyrmi...

Ultrafast lasers offer 3-D micropatterning of biocompatible silk hydrogels

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

Tufts University biomedical engineers are using low-energy, ultrafast laser technology to make high-resolution, 3-D structures in silk protein hydrogels. The la...

Innovations in Satellite Payloads - An interview with David Jungkind of SEAKR

Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)

Satellite technology today is at an exciting juncture. The upcoming advent of next generation, high throughput satellite (HTS) systems combined with advances in...

Benign by design

Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)

Green chemistry is akin to baking. Both require precision and specific ingredients to produce the desired results. The trick is figuring out exactly which ingre...

Atomic fractals in metallic glasses

Sep 24, 2015 (SPX)

Metallic glasses are very strong and elastic materials that appear with the naked eye to be identical to stainless steel. But metallic glasses differ from ordin...

U.S. Army taps Northrop Grumman for long-range radar

Sep 24, 2015 (UPI)

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been selected by the U.S. Army to develop a new long-range radar for surveillance and reconnaissance missions, the company anno...