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Team uses 3D printing to strengthen key material in aerospace and energy utilities
May 19, 2023 (SPX)
Further, the team believes that their general approach, which involves the 3D printing of a metallic powder strengthened with ceramic nanowires, could be used t...
'There was a city': VR tour peers into Hiroshima's past
May 18, 2023 (AFP)
What they are seeing is part of a virtual reality tour that allows people to experience the city as it was before, during and after the atomic bomb attack on Au...
Raytheon Technologies upgrading Korea's FA-50 with PhantomStrike radar
May 18, 2023 (SPX)
PhantomStrike is a first-of-its-kind, compact AESA radar that is smaller, lighter and requires less power. It is designed for a wide range of platforms includin...
AWI researchers demonstrate high natural radioactivity of manganese nodules
May 18, 2023 (SPX)
Particularly large quantities of manganese nodules can be found in the deep ocean of the Clarion Clipperton Zone in the North Pacific Ocean between Mexico and H...
Safeguarding space infrastructure
May 18, 2023 (SPX)
The abundance of satellites is not only responsible for "an unprecedented space traffic jam". It is also the cause of a large amount of space debris, or 'junk',...
Developing an ultraprotective sunscreen from our own melanin
May 18, 2023 (SPX)
Melanin, the pigment that gives humans their skin, eye, and hair colour, is the body's first and best natural defense against the sun's harmful rays. Cosmetics ...
Origami heat shield: reusable for reentries
May 18, 2023 (SPX)
As a spacecraft commences its return to Earth and encounters the atmosphere its orbital velocity gets converted into such high heat fluxes that an unprotected s...
New deal inked to space test meta-optical surfaces
May 16, 2023 (SPX)
In the first study of its kind, it will determine whether meta-optical components can withstand the pressures of space launch and prolonged exposure to the spac...
Space Forge enables reusable satellites with new way of returning from space to Earth
May 16, 2023 (SPX)
Although the cost of launching satellites into space has become lower through the use of reusability, all current commercial space return vehicles use ablative ...
Terran Orbital PTD-3 enables 200Gbits space-to-ground optical link
May 15, 2023 (SPX)
The achievement, funded by NASA's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) and developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory, marks a substantial advancement in space c...
Integral imaging-based tabletop light field 3D display with large viewing angle
May 15, 2023 (SPX)
In particular, the tabletop light field 3D display provides a new display form that combines the features of a real-world tabletop and a digital 3D display. Thi...
Juice's RIME antenna breaks free
May 13, 2023 (SPX)
During the first attempt at stretching out the compacted antenna, only the initial segments of each half were released. The flight controllers theorized that a ...
NASA and partners achieve fastest space-to-ground laser comms link
May 12, 2023 (SPX)
These data rates are made possible by using laser communications, which packs information into the oscillations of light waves in lasers, instead of using radio...
Upcoming ISS project will test 3D materials for satellite manufacturing
May 12, 2023 (SPX)
Among the payloads launching on SpaceX's upcoming 27th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission is a project to test an L3Harris-designed 3D printed radio fre...
Great balls of fire! 'Rocket debris' lights up Japan night
May 11, 2023 (AFP)
Video of the apparent fireballs lit up social media on Wednesday night, with residents and users speculating on what might have caused the unusual display. The ...
California's wet winter sparks a new gold rush
May 11, 2023 (AFP)
"This year, there's a lot of new spots" to find gold, says Fausel, clad in a wetsuit and snorkel, standing up to his knees in water. Less than 10 minutes into a...
Arianespace to launch the first active debris removal ClearSpace mission with Vega C
May 10, 2023 (SPX)
The space debris object removed by this mission is the upper part of a Vespa (Vega Secondary Payload Adapter) left in a 'gradual disposal' orbit, in compliance ...
Google answers ChatGPT challenge with Bard expansion
May 10, 2023 (AFP)
Executives at an annual Google developers conference in Silicon Valley said that generative AI will also be used to supercharge the tech giant's leading search ...
General Atomics delivers spacecraft simulator supporting NASA TSIS-2 program
May 09, 2023 (SPX)
GA-EMS is under contract with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to build the TSIS-2 spacecraft, which will provide measurements of solar irradiance and ...
SSTL and Oxford Space Systems to Launch CarbSAR in-orbit demo for innovative antenna
May 09, 2023 (SPX)
The work has been jointly funded by OSS, SSTL, Airbus Defence and Space, the National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF, HM Government's corporate ventu...
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