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December 26, 2020
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Voyager Space Holdings to buy all of Nanoracks



Denver CO (SPX) Dec 24, 2020
Voyager Space Holdings has announced its intent to acquire a majority stake in XO Markets and its largest subsidiary Nanoracks. Nanoracks is the world's leading provider of commercial space services, offering low-cost, high-quality solutions to the most pressing needs for satellite deployment and basic and educational research in more than 30 nations worldwide. As part of the transaction, Voyager will be infusing significant growth capital into the business to support the continued growth of Nanor ... read more

OIL AND GAS
Nanoparticles could improve oil production
Krasnoyarsk, Russia (SPX) Dec 23, 2020
A team of scientists from Siberian Federal University together with their colleagues from Novosibirsk studied the effect of nanoparticles on oil production efficiency. When added to the water that d ... more
SOLAR DAILY
Goldilocks and the three quantum dots: Just right for peak solar panel performance
Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Dec 22, 2020
Scientists in Australia have developed a process for calculating the perfect size and density of quantum dots needed to achieve record efficiency in solar panels. Quantum dots, man-made nanocr ... more
MICROSAT BLITZ
ANYWAVES enters into the development of a Reflectarray technology for nanosat constellations
Toulouse, France (SPX) Dec 21, 2020
ANYWAVES, the only European "pure player" antenna equipment manufacturer for satellite constellations, has just been selected by the French Space Agency (CNES) to demonstrate the technical feasibili ... more
CARBON WORLDS
International research project investigates photosensitive carbon nanoparticles
Nuremberg, Germany (SPX) Dec 15, 2020
An international team of researchers, including researchers from Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) headed by Prof. Dr. Dirk M. Guldi have now managed to identify the fundamenta ... more
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NANO TECH
Weak force has strong impact on nanosheets
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 16, 2020
You have to look closely, but the hills are alive with the force of van der Walls. Rice University scientists found that nature's ubiquitous "weak" force is sufficient to indent rigid nanoshee ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
NASA's ELaNa 20 Mission First to Fly on Virgin Orbit Launch
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Dec 15, 2020
Ten NASA-sponsored CubeSats are preparing to fly on the agency's next Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) mission, making this the first payload carried by Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket ... more
OIL AND GAS
Nanoengineered cement shows promise for sealing leaky gas wells
University Park PA (SPX) Dec 15, 2020
Leaking natural gas wells are considered a potential source of methane emissions, and a new nanomaterial cement mixture could provide an effective, affordable solution for sealing these wells, accor ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Nanoracks Bishop airlock takes flight
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 ca ... more
CARBON WORLDS
Skoltech scientists run a 'speed test' to boost the production of carbon nanotubes
Moscow, 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
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TECH SPACE
Russian scientists improve 3D printing technology for aerospace composites using oil waste
Moscow, 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
SPACEWAR
Colombian Air Force initiates its 2nd Nanosatellite mission with GomSpace
Aalborg, 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
TECH SPACE
Smaller than ever - exploring the unusual properties of quantum-sized materials
Tokyo, 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
CHIP TECH
Telling when a nanolithography mold will break through droplets
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 12, 2020
Ultraviolet nanoimprint lithography is powerful method of producing polymer nanostructures by pressing a curable resin onto a mold. However, there are no convenient methods to determine the lifetime ... more
NANO TECH
Making 3D nanosuperconductors with DNA
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 qu ... more


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CHIP TECH
Next-generation computer chip with two heads
Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 06, 2020
It's a major breakthrough in the field of electronics. Engineers at EPFL's Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures (LANES) have developed a next-generation circuit that allows for smaller ... more
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NANO TECH
Researchers share design for affordable single-molecule microscope
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 06, 2020
With education budgets shrinking at universities in many parts of the world, every expense matters. Thanks to a team of scientists and students from the University of Sheffield, stocking the chem lab just got a little less expensive. ... more
CARBON WORLDS
Scientists grow carbon nanotube forest much longer than any other
Tokyo, 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
MICROSAT BLITZ
TAU builds and plans to launch a small satellite into orbit
Tel 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
TECH SPACE
Industrial-strength brine, meet your kryptonite
Houston 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
BIO FUEL
New protein nanobioreactor designed to improve sustainable bioenergy production
Liverpool 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
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Weak force has strong impact on nanosheets
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 16, 2020
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