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September 19, 2013

The '50-50' chip: Memory device of the future?
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 17, 2013
A new, environmentally-friendly electronic alloy consisting of 50 aluminum atoms bound to 50 atoms of antimony may be promising for building next-generation "phase-change" memory devices, which may be the data-storage technology of the future, according to a new paper published in the journal Applied Physics Letters, which is produced by AIP Publishing. Phase-change memory is being actively pursued as an alternative to the ubiquitous flash memory for data storage applications, because flash memory ... read more

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Blue Sky Network Dynamic Electronic Forms Feature Via Iridium And HawkEyeLink Blue Sky Network has announced that its portable Bluetooth device, HawkEyeLink, now supports access and transmission of electronic forms. HawkEyeLink enables two-way messaging on smartphone an ... more		Last Days for Tiangong When the crew of Shenzhou 10 departed the Tiangong 1 space laboratory in June, Chinese officials declared that Tiangong was now a spacecraft on death row. China's first space laboratory had three mo ... more		Decontamination continues at Baikonur after Proton abortive launc The fourth stage of the decontamination effort was completed on Thursday evening in the area at the Baikonur cosmodrome where the wreckage of a Proton-M carrier rocket fell after an abortive launch ... more
				Experimental Spaceplane Shooting for "Aircraft-Like" Operations in Orbit Commercial, civilian and military satellites provide crucial real-time information essential to providing strategic national security advantages to the United States. The current generation of satel ... more		First Boeing-built Inmarsat-5 Satellite on Track for 2013 Launch The first of three Inmarsat-5 Global Xpress (GX) satellites being built by Boeing has completed a key system life test, paving the way for it to launch later this year. The satellite performed ... more

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Iran to send second monkey into space Iran plans to send its second monkey into space onboard the home-made rocket named Pishgam ( Pioneer) II within 45 days, Iran Space Agency director Hamid Fazeli was quoted as saying by local media o ... more		Problems with Proton booster fixed The problems with the Proton-M booster of the kind that crashed shortly after lift-off from Baikonur on July 2 have been fixed, and the system can be cleared for use again. Deputy Prime Minist ... more		Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm Top Chinese gaming companies continue to challenge		US launches unmanned Cygnus cargo ship to ISS Orbital Sciences Corp launched the first flight of its unmanned Cygnus cargo ship Wednesday to the International Space Station, as NASA forges ahead with its plan to privatize US space missions. ... more
				Voyager's departure from the heliosphere New data from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft, which has been hurtling away from the Sun since it was launched in 1977, indicates that the spacecraft has indeed left the comfort of the heliosphere-the b ... more		Atlas 5 Lofts 3rd AEHF Military Comms Satellites The third Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communication satellite, built by a Lockheed Martin team for the U.S. Air Force, was successfully launched today at 4:10 a.m. from Cape Ca ... more

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NASA Celebrates National Aerospace Week Every time you step aboard an airplane there's an excellent chance that a piece of innovative NASA technology will be flying with you, helping to ensure you have a safe and efficient flight. I ... more		Q and A: John Richardson and John Belcher on Voyager 1's crossing and interstellar exploration On Sept. 12, scientists announced that NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft had gone where no man or machine has gone before: beyond the solar system, and into interstellar space. According to data from the ... more		Solar-driven ionosphere charges may nudge stressed faults toward rupture Stable black carbon in mangrove soils boosts coastal climate role Low crystallinity iron minerals show promise for chromium cleanup and carbon storage		Next Boeing GPS IIF Satellite Arrives at Cape Canaveral for Launch Boeing workers lift the Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF-5 satellite onto a transporter following its Aug. 1 arrival at the Navstar Processing Facility on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. ... more
				New Kind of Ultraviolet LED could Lead to Portable, Low-Cost Devices Commercial uses for ultraviolet (UV) light are growing, and now a new kind of LED under development at The Ohio State University could lead to more portable and low-cost uses of the technology. ... more		Scripps Research Institute scientists solve century-old chemistry problem Chemists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found a way to apply a "foundational reaction" of organic chemistry to a stubborn class of chemicals, in a transformation that has been thought ... more

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