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MDA announces Canada's DND Sapphire satellite completes commissioning

Feb 07, 2014 (SPX)

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. reports that the Sapphire satellite developed by MDA for Canada's Department of National Defence (DND) has completed it...

NASA Boards the 3-D-Manufacturing Train

Feb 07, 2014 (SPX)

Given NASA's unique needs for highly customized spacecraft and instrument components, additive manufacturing, or "3-D printing," offers a compelling alternative...

Towards tailor-made adhesives

Feb 07, 2014 (SPX)

Tape, self-adhesive labels, Post-it notes and masking tape all contain soft adhesives. This makes them easy to remove-a process referred to as debonding. French...

Scalable Agile Beam Radar Rapidly Achieves Major Program Milestones

Feb 06, 2014 (SPX)

Northrop Grumman reports that its Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) has already completed several significant program development milestones. Last July, SABR was...

Amazon buys videogame studio Double Helix

Feb 06, 2014 (AFP)

Amazon said Thursday it was buying a California-based videogame studio, fueling speculation that the online retail titan plans to release its own console for ho...

Google mystery barge may be homeless

Feb 05, 2014 (AFP)

A mystery barge being built by Google on a pier at a former Navy base in the San Francisco Bay may be told to cast off. It turns out that officials running the ...

Quicker method paves the way for atomic-level design

Feb 05, 2014 (SPX)

A new X-ray method will enable the development of more efficient catalysts. The method opens up new opportunities to work on atomic level in a number of areas o...

Photon recoil provides new insight into matter

Feb 04, 2014 (SPX)

Quantum logic spectroscopy - which is closely linked with the name of the 2012 Nobel prize laureate, David J. Wineland - has been significantly extended: this n...

Faster X-ray technology paves the way for better catalysts

Feb 04, 2014 (SPX)

By using a novel X-ray technique, researchers have observed a catalyst surface at work in real time and were able to resolve its atomic structure in detail. The...

Storage system for 'big data' dramatically speeds access to information

Feb 04, 2014 (SPX)

As computers enter ever more areas of our daily lives, the amount of data they produce has grown enormously. But for this "big data" to be useful it must first ...

Highly Efficient Broadband Terahertz Radiation from Metamaterials

Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have demonstrated broadband terahertz (THz) wave generation using metamaterials. The discovery may...

Oman orders NASAMS air defense system

Feb 03, 2014 (UPI)

An advanced surface-to-air missile system developed by Raytheon and Norway's Kongsberg Defense Systems is being purchased by the Sultanate of Oman. The purchase...

New NASA Laser Technology Reveals How Ice Measures Up

Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)

New results from NASA's MABEL campaign demonstrated that a photon-counting technique will allow researchers to track the melt or growth of Earth's frozen region...

Chameleon of the sea reveals its secrets

Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists at Harvard University and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) hope new understanding of the natural nanoscale photonic device that enables a small...

A Proposal For The Space Debris Society

Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)

Almost every constituency of the space community has a society representing the interests of that group. However, there is no such organization for those of us ...

Raytheon secures first international customer for its F-16 RACR AESA radar

Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)

Raytheon Company has signed a contract with BAE Systems in support of upgrading the Republic of Korea's fleet of more than 130 KF-16C/D Block 52 aircraft. As a ...

Microwires as mobile phone sensors

Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)

Microwires were created in the former Soviet Union for military purposes. They formed the basis of the camouflage of a model of spy plane used by the Soviet arm...

Russia, US to join forces against space threats

Jan 31, 2014 (Voice of Russia)

Russia and the United States will pool efforts in the creation of asteroid diversion techniques. Russian Emergency Situations Minister Vladimir Puchkov said in ...

Fujitsu returns to profit with healthy sales

Jan 30, 2014 (AFP)

Japan's Fujitsu swung back to profit in the three months to December thanks to brisk sales in PCs and networking services for public and business customers, as ...

NGC Completes Critical Design Review For James Webb Space Telescope

Jan 30, 2014 (SPX)

Northrop Grumman has passed the last significant mission design milestone for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the spacecraft Critical Design Review (CDR), fi...