TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

Saab producing components, sub-systems for Marine Corps radar

Feb 16, 2015 (UPI)

Saab's U.S. subsidiary has been contracted to provide components and sub-systems of the U.S. Marine Corps AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar system. The a...

Research shows benefits of silicon carbide for sensors in harsh environments

Feb 15, 2015 (SPX)

The use of silicon carbide as a semiconductor for mechanical and electrical sensor devices is showing promise for improved operations and safety in harsh workin...

Cosmic Reionization Is More Recent than Predicted

Feb 15, 2015 (SPX)

The highly anticipated update of the analysis of data from the European Space Agency's Planck satellite starts with a first paper published in Astronomy and Ast...

DSCOVR: Mission Success for Moog Engines Over a Decade Later

Feb 15, 2015 (SPX)

Moog Space and Defense Group supported NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite that launched today from Cape Canaveral, F.L., atop a Falcon 9 l...

Lower-cost metal 3-D printing solution available

Feb 15, 2015 (SPX)

3D printing of plastic parts to prototype or manufacture goods is becoming commonplace in industry, but there is an urgent need for lower-cost 3D printing techn...

Measurement of key molecule increases accuracy of combustion models

Feb 13, 2015 (SPX)

Sandia National Laboratories researchers are the first to directly measure hydroperoxyalkyl radicals -- a class of reactive molecules denoted as "QOOH" -- that ...

Google, Mattel bring virtual reality to iconic toy

Feb 13, 2015 (AFP)

Google and toy giant Mattel said Friday they were teaming up to revamp the classic View-Master device, injecting it with digital-age virtual reality. The upgrad...

India overtakes China to become top global gold consumer

Feb 12, 2015 (AFP)

China lost its place to India as the world's biggest gold consumer in 2014, sector data showed Thursday, hit by collapsing jewellery demand after one year in th...

Penta-graphene, a new structural variant of carbon, discovered

Feb 06, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and universities in China and Japan have discovered a new structural variant of carbon called "penta-graphene" -...

Study reveals how oxygen is like kryptonite to titanium

Feb 06, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have found the mechanism by which titanium, prized for its high strength-to-weight ratio and natural resis...

Spacecraft Power Systems

Feb 06, 2015 (SPX)

The power system is one of the fundamental systems required to operate any spacecraft. Many satellite engineers, who work on other systems, tend to take spacecr...

Cheap and abundant chemical outperforms precious metals as a catalyst

Feb 06, 2015 (SPX)

A team of Caltech chemists has discovered a method for producing a group of silicon-containing organic chemicals without relying on expensive precious metal cat...

SSC expands at the Inuvik Satellite Station Facility

Feb 06, 2015 (SPX)

The Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) is increasing its capacity at the Inuvik Satellite Station Facility in Inuvik, Canada, with the addition of a new multi-miss...

Winding borders may enhance graphene

Feb 06, 2015 (SPX)

Far from being a defect, a winding thread of odd rings at the border of two sheets of graphene has qualities that may prove valuable to manufacturers, according...

New catalyst uses light to convert nitrogen to ammonia

Feb 06, 2015 (SPX)

Northwestern University scientists are the first to develop a catalyst that can perform a remarkable feat found only in nature: take nitrogen from the air and t...

New method allows for greater variation in band gap tunability

Feb 06, 2015 (SPX)

If you can't find the ideal material, then design a new one. Northwestern University's James Rondinelli uses quantum mechanical calculations to predict and desi...

The rarely understood ammonium carbonate monohydrate

Feb 05, 2015 (SPX)

New structural studies of the superficially simple ammonium carbonate monohydrate could shed light on industrial processes, biochemistry and even the interstell...

Fajr satellite serves no military purpose

Feb 05, 2015 (IRNA)

Director of space projects at Iran Electronics Industries Company Mehdi Sarvi told IRNA that Fajr satellite which was successfully placed into orbit by Safir sa...

SMAP Satellite utilizes Northrop Grumman's AstroMesh Reflector

Feb 05, 2015 (SPX)

On January 30th, NASA successfully launched the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) spacecraft from Vandenberg Air Force Base, on its mission to provide global ...

Eyes In The Sky: Britain's GCHQ Sets Sights on Space

Feb 03, 2015 (Sputnik)

The British surveillance agency GCHQ is collecting enormous amounts of satellite telephone data and sharing them with its sister agency in the US, via its groun...