TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

Satellite Cooling System Breakthrough Developed by Lockheed Martin Space Systems

Dec 05, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists and engineers at the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center (ATC) have developed the lightest satellite cryocooler, (cooling system) ever built. ...

Telescope to track space junk using youth radio station

Dec 04, 2013 (SPX)

A combination of pop songs, talkback radio and cutting-edge science has enabled Australian astronomers to identify a way to prevent catastrophic, multi-billion ...

Mission possible: Simulation-based training and experimentation on display

Dec 04, 2013 (SPX)

A unique system that merges the virtual and real worlds to train Sailors for combat scenarios was unveiled Dec. 2 in Orlando. The Office of Naval Research (ONR)...

Google steps up its battle for Internet 'cloud'

Dec 03, 2013 (AFP)

Google is stepping up its efforts to move into the Internet "cloud," taking on rivals like Amazon and Microsoft in competition for business customers. The Calif...

Use of ancient lead in modern physics experiments ignites debate

Nov 29, 2013 (UPI)

Physicists and archaeologists are at odds over the use in contemporary experiments in particle physics of lead recovered from ancient shipwrecks. Scientists fro...

Scientists create perfect solution to iron out kinks in surfaces

Nov 28, 2013 (SPX)

A new technique that allows curved surfaces to appear flat to electromagnetic waves has been developed by scientists at Queen Mary University of London. The dis...

Crippled space telescope given second life, new mission

Nov 28, 2013 (UPI)

NASA says it has successfully revived its crippled Kepler Space Telescope and may give it a new mission of searching the skies. In its new mission Kepler would ...

What might recyclable satellites look like?

Nov 26, 2013 (ESA)

No matter how painstakingly we choose the materials to build satellites, once a mission is over they are just so much junk. But what if one day they could be re...

Overcoming Brittleness: New Insights into Bulk Metallic Glass

Nov 25, 2013 (SPX)

From the production of tougher, more durable smart phones and other electronic devices, to a wider variety of longer lasting biomedical implants, bulk metallic ...

SlipChip Counts Molecules with Chemistry and a Cell Phone

Nov 25, 2013 (SPX)

In developing nations, rural areas, and even one's own home, limited access to expensive equipment and trained medical professionals can impede the diagnosis an...

NASA Instrument Determines Hazards of Deep-Space Radiation

Nov 25, 2013 (SPX)

Deep-space radiation is a significant danger for interplanetary human space flight. But now an instrument on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has learn...

$3.3 billion Canadian mining project scrapped

Nov 22, 2013 (UPI)

Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. says it has suspended plans for a $3.3 billion chromite mining project in Canada. The company, based in Cleveland, mines iron ore ...

Raytheon awarded US Navy contract for radar production

Nov 20, 2013 (SPX)

Raytheon has been awarded a $406 million U.S. Navy multi-year contract to provide AN/SPY-1 radar transmitters and MK99 Fire Control Systems for the AEGIS progra...

UNH scientists document, quantify deep-space radiation hazards

Nov 19, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues have published comprehensive findings on space-based radiation as measured by a UNH-led detector ...

Bayanat Airports And Lockheed To Deploy Windtracer Lidar In Middle East

Nov 19, 2013 (SPX)

Bayanat Airports Engineering and Supplies (BAES), in collaboration with Lockheed Martin, has successfully installed the region's first WindTracer lidar (light d...

Czech gold deposits make foreign prospectors drool

Nov 17, 2013 (AFP)

Czech gold deposits are whetting the appetites of foreign prospectors hoping to see the new government lift a mining moratorium in the aftermath of snap electio...

3D printing 'will change the world'

Nov 16, 2013 (AFP)

From replacement kidneys to guns, cars, prosthetics and works of art, 3D printing is predicted to transform our lives in the coming decades as dramatically as t...

Protection Of Materials And Structures From Space Environment at ICPMSE 11

Nov 15, 2013 (SPX)

The year was 1989. It was the year when the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) satellite was brought back to Earth from almost a five-year stay in low Earth...

Northrop Grumman Wins Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar Study

Nov 14, 2013 (SPX)

Northrop Grumman has been selected by the U.S. Navy to conduct a study that explores the replacement of the SPS-48 and SPS-49 air surveillance radars currently ...

Snap to attention: Polymers that react and move to light

Nov 14, 2013 (SPX)

Microvehicles and other devices that can change shape or move with no power source other than a beam of light may be possible through research led by the Univer...