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  Cape Canaveral, FL (SPX) Dec 09, 2020 The privately-owned Nanoracks Bishop Airlock, has reached ISS after a successful launch onboard the CRS-21 mission. "This is a monumental moment for Nanoracks," says CEO Jeffrey Manber. "We came up with this idea five years ago. In those five quick years, we've gone from being known as the 'CubeSat' deployment company to an organization that is building the future of commercial low-Earth orbit infrastructure. I am beyond proud of our team and grateful to all of our partners and customers who have ... read more |
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Skoltech scientists run a 'speed test' to boost the production of carbon nanotubesMoscow, Russia (SPX) Dec 03, 2020 Skoltech researchers have investigated the procedure for catalyst delivery used in the most common method of carbon nanotube production, chemical vapor deposition (CVD), offering what they call a "s ... more  
Russian scientists improve 3D printing technology for aerospace composites using oil wasteMoscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 26, 2020 Scientists from NUST MISIS have improved the technology of 3D printing from aluminum, having achieved an increase in the hardness of products by 1,5 times. The nanocarbon additive to aluminum powder ... more  
Colombian Air Force initiates its 2nd Nanosatellite mission with GomSpaceAalborg, Denmark (SPX) Nov 13, 2020 GomSpace has signed a contract with CODALTEC / Colombian Air Force ("FAC") to initiate the FACSAT-2 satellite mission and associated intensive virtual technology transfer program. The contract is wo ... more 
Smaller than ever - exploring the unusual properties of quantum-sized materialsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 13, 2020 The development of functional nanomaterials has been a major landmark in the history of materials science. Nanoparticles with diameters ranging from 5 to 500 nm have unprecedented properties, such a ... more |
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Scientists grow carbon nanotube forest much longer than any otherTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 05, 2020 Today, a multitude of industries, including optics, electronics, water purification, and drug delivery, innovate at an unprecedented scale with nanometer-wide rolls of honeycomb-shaped graphite shee ... more  
TAU builds and plans to launch a small satellite into orbitTel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Nov 05, 2020 The TAU-SAT1 nanosatellite, approximately the size of a shoebox, is currently undergoing pre-flight testing at the Japanese space agency JAXA prior to a planned launch by NASA in the first quarter o ... more 
Industrial-strength brine, meet your kryptoniteHouston TX (SPX) Nov 04, 2020 A thin coating of the 2D nanomaterial hexagonal boron nitride is the key ingredient in a cost-effective technology developed by Rice University engineers for desalinating industrial-strength brine. ... more  
New protein nanobioreactor designed to improve sustainable bioenergy productionLiverpool UK (SPX) Nov 04, 2020 Researchers at the University of Liverpool have unlocked new possibilities for the future development of sustainable, clean bioenergy. The study, published in Nature Communications, shows how bacter ... more 
Rice finds path to nanodiamond from grapheneHouston TX (SPX) Nov 02, 2020 Marrying two layers of graphene is an easy route to the blissful formation of nanoscale diamond, but sometimes thicker is better. While it may only take a bit of heat to turn a treated bilayer ... more |
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Scientists explain the paradox of quantum forces in nanodevicesSaint-Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 Researchers from Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) proposed a new approach to describe the interaction of metals with electromagnetic fluctuations (i.e., with random burst ... more |
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Rice rolls out next-gen nanocarsHouston TX (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 Nanomechanics at Rice University and the University of Houston are getting ready to rev their engines for the second international Nanocar Race. While they'll have to pump the brakes for a bit ... more 
On-surface synthesis of graphene nanoribbons could advance quantum devicesOak Ridge TN (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 An international multi-institution team of scientists has synthesized graphene nanoribbons - ultrathin strips of carbon atoms - on a titanium dioxide surface using an atomically precise method that ... more 
NanoAvionics goes hyper-spectralColumbia IL (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 NanoAvionics, a leading nanosatellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator, has revealed the remaining three payloads of its 'D-2/AtlaCom-1' rideshare mission hosted on board its M6P 6U nanosatel ... more 
FEFU scientists helped design a new type of ceramics for laser applicationsVladivostok, Russia (SPX) Oct 23, 2020 Material scientists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) joined an international team of researchers to develop new nanocomposite ceramics (Ho3+:Y2O3-MgO) that can be employed in high-capacity ... more 
Bishop Airlock Cycles pre-purchased by NASA and ESAWashington DC (SPX) Oct 21, 2020 Nanoracks is pleased to announce that both NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have pre-purchased Bishop Airlock Cycles for agency and third-party use. The Nanoracks Bishop Airlock, launching t ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 04, 2020  China's Chang'e-5 lander departed the moon after spending two days on the surface, leaving behind its first official flag.
China brought two flags on previous missions, but the one left Thursday was the first one made of fabric, the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp. said. The fabric and rod structure of the flag were treated to be protected during extreme temperatures on the lu ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 30, 2020 
China plans to launch a space telescope for research in electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational waves in December, according to the National Space Science Center under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The telescope, Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM), will be launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's S ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Dec 4, 2020 
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday the United States would refuse entry to Chinese online trolls who target dissidents and minorities, announcing his latest visa curbs amid high tensions with Beijing.
Pompeo said Washington was banning visas to Chinese Communist Party members who engage in so-called doxing, the release of personal details on the internet as a form of intimidation. ... more |
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Washington DC (UPI) Dec 04, 2020 China's Chang'e-5 lander departed the moon after spending two days on the surface, leaving behind its first official flag.
China brought two flags on previous missions, but the one left Thursday was the first one made of fabric, the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp. said. The fabric and rod structure of the flag were treated to be protected during extreme temperatures on the lu ... more |
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 Upton NY (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 
Three-dimensional (3-D) nanostructured materials - those with complex shapes at a size scale of billionths of a meter - that can conduct electricity without resistance could be used in a range of quantum devices. For example, such 3-D superconducting nanostructures could find application in signal amplifiers to enhance the speed and accuracy of quantum computers and ultrasensitive magnetic field ... more |
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 Chelmsford UK (SPX) Dec 09, 2020 
Teledyne e2v's Space Imaging team, a part of the Teledyne Imaging Group, has secured funding from the UK Space Agency's National Space Innovation Programme (NSIP) that will demonstrate and help support intelligent image processing platforms. The funding is in response to the 2020/2021 NSIP theme for "Earth Observation to Tackle Climate Change" and will be jointly delivered with Craft Prospect, b ... more |
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Upton NY (SPX) Nov 11, 2020
Three-dimensional (3-D) nanostructured materials - those with complex shapes at a size scale of billionths of a meter - that can conduct electricity without resistance could be used in a range of quantum devices. For example, such 3-D superconducting nanostructures could find application in signal amplifiers to enhance the speed and accuracy of quantum computers and ultrasensitive magnetic field ... more |
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 Madrid (AFP) Dec 2, 2020 
Spain is to invest 600 million euros (725 million dollars) in developing artificial intelligence over the next two years as part of plans to transform its national economy, the premier said Wednesday.
The programme would run from 2021 to 2023, starting with an initial injection of 330 million euros, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said.
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 
Smart cities are developing around the world. In order to turn them into sustainable and livable spaces, one of the key points is that they must respond to new mobility challenges. As days go by, betting on the introduction of a reliable and safe unmanned vehicle network on its transport routes is not as impossible.
In this context, UAV Navigation and CATEC have presented a project within ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 02, 2020  Scientists have successfully miniaturized the polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, the technology that powers the most popular tests for detecting viruses and bacteria in biological samples.
PCR is usually performed in the lab, but the new lab-on-a-chip, described Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications, could allow diagnostic testing to be done on-site, returning results in a matt ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 09, 2020 
Future lunar landers might come equipped with 3D printed rocket engine parts that help bring down overall manufacturing costs and reduce production time. NASA is investing in advanced manufacturing - one of five industries of the future - to make it possible.
Through a series of hot-fire tests in November, NASA demonstrated that two additively manufactured engine components - a copper allo ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 6, 2020 
A Hong Kong pro-democracy politician who fled overseas is being investigated for national security crimes, police said Sunday, confirming they have frozen some of his bank accounts.
The revelation comes as international banks in the semi-autonomous city become increasingly tangled up in political tensions as the US threatens to sanction businesses that aid Beijing's crackdown on dissent.
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 03, 2020 
The effect that nearly massless, subatomic particles called neutrinos have on the formation of galaxies has long been a cosmological mystery - one that physicists have sought to measure since discovering the particles in 1956.
But an international research team including the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) Principal Investigator Naoki Yoshida, w ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 19, 2020 
What resembles a donut or the iris of an eye is actually a liquid cell illuminated from below.
Part of the Chemo-Hydrodynamic Patterns and Instabilities (CHYPI) experiment that recently flew on the 73rd ESA parabolic flight campaign, this cell has a lot to offer the chemical solutions industry.
Researchers behind CHYPI are seeking to validate a theoretical model, developed by Anne De ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Dec 07, 2020 
A new system for measuring solar performance over the long term in scalable photovoltaic systems, developed by Arizona State University researchers, represents a breakthrough in the cost and longevity of interconnected power delivery.
When solar cells are developed, they are "current-voltage" tested in the lab before they are deployed in panels and systems outdoors. Once installed outdoors ... more |
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 Entrepreneur's Challenge at NASA 
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 09, 2020
NASA's Science Mission Directorate has awarded prize funding of $100,000 each to six entrepreneurial startup companies under its pilot Entrepreneur's Challenge program for concepts ranging from machine learning to enable exploration and other technologies to new ways to build instruments to study the universe.
NASA partnered with Starburst, the global aero ... more |
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