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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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 Jerusalem (AFP) Dec 9, 2020 
Israel launched Wednesday the Beresheet 2 project aimed at landing an unmanned craft on the moon in 2024, after a previous such mission had crashed into the lunar surface.
The original Beresheet, Hebrew for "Genesis", was a tall, oddly shaped 585-kilogram (1,290-pound) spacecraft built by Israeli NGO SpaceIL and state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries.
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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 7, 2020 
Cybercrime is expected to cost the global economy more than $1 trillion this year, up more than 50 percent since 2018, a research report said Monday.
The report by McAfee Corp. with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) concluded that the cost of online criminal activity is more than one percent of global economic output, and also had significant non-monetary impacts.
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Jerusalem (AFP) Dec 9, 2020
Israel launched Wednesday the Beresheet 2 project aimed at landing an unmanned craft on the moon in 2024, after a previous such mission had crashed into the lunar surface.
The original Beresheet, Hebrew for "Genesis", was a tall, oddly shaped 585-kilogram (1,290-pound) spacecraft built by Israeli NGO SpaceIL and state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries.
It had reached the moon in April 20 ... 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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 Paris (ESA) Dec 07, 2020 
ESA and Thales Alenia Space have signed a contract to develop the new high-priority Copernicus Radar Observation System for Europe in L-band (ROSE-L) environmental monitoring mission - as part of Europe's Copernicus programme. The contract was signed in the presence of Riccardo Fraccaro, Undersecretary of the Italian Prime Minister's Office, and ESA's Director General, Jan Worner.
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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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 Paris (ESA) Dec 10, 2020 
ESA has given industry the go-ahead to build Space Rider space and ground segments.
Launched on a Vega-C rocket, this spacecraft will serve as an uncrewed robotic laboratory in low Earth orbit, returning to Earth with its payloads and being reused on future missions.
Space Rider offers routine access to and return from space for a wide range of European space and non-space applicatio ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 09, 2020 
A U.S. Navy warrant officer specialty for Aerial Vehicle Operators was announced this week, with plans to train about 450 personnel for the designation.
The AVO warrant officer will be charged with operating MQ-25 Stingray unmanned aerial vehicles, which are typically launched from maritime vessels.
The aircraft will be included aboard fleet carrier airwings in 2024, the Navy sai ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 8, 2020  The Department of Defense is planning to adopt a flight simulation program that can be installed on ordinary computers and laptops to supplement pilot training.
According to Air Force Lt. Col. Eric Frahm, the Joint Immersive Training System, or JTS isn't meant to replace simulators or real-time flying but to augment them and accelerate the pace of training.
The Air Force has repo ... 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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 Xichang, China (XNA) Dec 10, 2020 
China sent two satellites for the detection of gravitational waves into planned orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province on Thursday morning.
The two satellites, which compose the Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) mission, were launched by a Long March-11 carrier rocket at 4:14 am (Beijing Time), according to the ce ... more |
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Dec 10, 2020  A Rochester Institute of Technology professor received a grant from the Department of Energy to research ways to develop low-cost, high-efficiency solar cells. Professor Seth Hubbard received nearly $400,000 from the DOE to attempt to dramatically reduce the cost of high-efficiency solar cells by using a process called spalling to make the substrates solar cells are grown on reusable. ... more |
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 Chennai, India (SPX) Dec 10, 2020 
The Department of Space (DoS) and Agnikul Cosmos Private Limited, an IIT Madras based launch vehicle startup, are pleased to announce that they have signed a non-disclosure agreement under the newly proposed IN-SPACe entity. Indian National Space Promotion and Authorization Center (IN-SPACe) is an independent nodal agency under DoS for allowing space activities and usage of DOS owned facilities ... more |
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