Space Business and Industry News at SpaceMart.com

November 10, 2013

A Single-Atom Light Switch
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Nov 09, 2013
With just a single atom, light can be switched between two fibre optic cables at the Vienna University of Technology. Such a switch enables quantum phenomena to be used for information and communication technology. Fibre optic cables are turned in to a quantum lab: scientists are trying to build optical switches at the smallest possible scale in order to manipulate light. At the Vienna University of Technology, this can now be done using a single atom. Conventional glass fibre cables, which are us ... read more

Previous Issues

Nov 08

Nov 07

Nov 06

Nov 05

Nov 04

European science satellite to break up late Sunday Fragments from a science satellite are likely to crash to Earth late Sunday or early Monday after the one-tonne probe breaks up at the end of its mission, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Friday. ... more		Self-correcting crystal may unleash the next generation of advanced communications Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have joined with an international team to engineer and measure a potentially important new class of nanostructured material ... more		Wind Tunnel Testing Used to Understand the Unsteady Side of Aerodynamics Think about a time you've been a passenger in a car and stuck your hand out the window. As your speed increases, so do the vibrations in your hand. Trying to keep those fingers steady as the wind wh ... more
				President Putin ends Russia and NATO ABM cooperation In another powerful and significant move for peace, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has cancelled a presidential order which in 2011, had set up an interdepartmental working g ... more		Gimball: A crash-happy flying robot Gimball bumps into and ricochets off of obstacles, rather than avoiding them. This 34 centimeter in diameter spherical flying robot buzzes around the most unpredictable, chaotic environments, withou ... more

Diamond Imperfections Pave the Way to Technology Gold From supersensitive detections of magnetic fields to quantum information processing, the key to a number of highly promising advanced technologies may lie in one of the most common defects in diamon ... more		Stanford researchers surprised to find how neural circuits identify information needed for decisions While eating lunch you notice an insect buzzing around your plate. Its color and motion could both influence how you respond. If the insect was yellow and black you might decide it was a bee and mov ... 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		New chemistry: Drawing and writing in liquid with light University of Helsinki researchers have manufactured photochemically active polymers which can be dissolved in water or certain alcohols. The new soluble, photosensitive polymer was created by docto ... more
				Making electrical contact along 1-D edge of 2-D materials Dr. Cory Dean, assistant professor of physics at The City College of New York, is the lead author of a paper published in the journal Science that demonstrates it is possible for an atomically thin ... more		Cat's eyes: Designing the perfect mixer As any amateur baker knows, proper mixing is crucial to a perfect pastry. Mix too little and ingredients will not be evenly distributed; beat instead of fold, and a souffle will fall flat. Mixing st ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

Space Situational Awareness Conference 2013

Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review

Recycling valuable materials used in TVs, car batteries, cell phones Many of today's technologies, from hybrid car batteries to flat-screen televisions, rely on materials known as rare earth elements (REEs) that are in short supply, but scientists are reporting devel ... more		Synaptic transistor learns while it computes It doesn't take a Watson to realize that even the world's best supercomputers are staggeringly inefficient and energy-intensive machines. Our brains have upwards of 86 billion neurons, connected by ... 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		NASA Technologists Embrace Laser Instrument Challenge In 2007, the National Research Council threw down a challenge: Design a space-based laser altimeter that could measure the height of Earth's surface everywhere to wi ... more
				High Energy Prairie View A and M Interns Collaborate with NASA Goddard on Radiation Effects Research When Alvin Boutte presented his graduate work at the 2010 National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Aerospace Systems Conference in Los Angeles, Calif., he had no idea that he was about to connect ... more		Network Innovations appointed as value added reseller for Inmarsat Global Xpress Inmarsat has signed an agreement with Network Innovations Inc, appointing the specialised managed satellite services provider as a Value Added Reseller (VAR) for Global Xpress, serving Government ma ... more

European science satellite to break up late Sunday

NASA Technologists Embrace Laser Instrument Challenge

New chemistry: Drawing and writing in liquid with light

Self-correcting crystal may unleash the next generation of advanced communications

Raytheon expands international footprint of electronic warfare capability

Latest AEHF Comms Payload Gets Boost From Customized Integrated Circuits

Kazakhstan say Baikonur launch site may be open to Western countries

ESA Swarm launch postponed

Europe's fifth ATV for launch by Arianespace begins its pre-flight checkout at the Spaceport

How pigeons may smell their way home

UK conservationists using location-based system ManagePlaces

A Better Way to Track Your Every Move

	Robots to help elderly or paint nails at Tokyo expo Pneumatic muscle suits and a walking stick that behaves like a guide dog competed for attention with an industrial robot that can paint fingernails at a huge expo in Tokyo Thursday. ... more		NASA Selects Research Teams for New Virtual Institute NASA has selected nine research teams from seven states for a new institute that will bring researchers together in a collaborative virtual setting to focus on questions concerning space science and ... more		UCF Lands NASA-Funded Center, Linchpin for Future Space Missions UCF will be home to NASA's Center for Lunar and Asteroid Surface Science (referred to as CLASS) beginning later this year, thanks to a $6 million grant awarded this week to UCF physics professor Dan ... more		How pigeons may smell their way home Homing pigeons, like other birds, are extraordinary navigators, but how they manage to find their way back to their lofts is still debated. To navigate, birds require a 'map' (to tell them home is s ... more

AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners

Ancient guano drove Chincha coastal power

UAH lands first DARPA award for biological sciences department

UK conservationists using location-based system ManagePlaces		Inmarsat and ORBCOMM to form strategic alliance to collaborate on M2M opportunities		Iran starts producing new missile system		Gulf Arabs boost missile defenses despite U.S. thaw with Iran		Indonesia evacuates bodies after deadly helicopter crash
Islamists protest against US drone strikes in Pakistan		Vets of Doolittle WWII raid hold a final reunion		US firm claims first 3D-printed metal gun		US civilian drone operators to detail data use: regulators		First harbor trial completed for Australian helicopter docking vessel

Boeing and Kongsberg Defense Systems Complete Joint Strike Missile Check on FA-18 Super Hornet

New Boeing B-52 Upgrade to Increase Smart Weapons Capacity by Half

EU mulls tough options to deal with Mediterranean migrants

China leaders start key economic 'reform' summit

US finance chief to raise China currency on Asia trip

Cheap Chinese textiles slam Peru's garment industry

Africa scrambles to build export network for mineral resources

Latin America hopes to ride out slow U.S. growth

Romania accused of shady moves to please Canadian mining firm

Japan PM Abe rides around Tokyo in self-driving vehicles

As Twitter flies, fears mount on bubble

Advances promise prosthetic limbs that can emulate healthy ones

Outside View: U.S. economy adds 204,000 jobs in October

New technology can harvest 'lost' energy, create electricity

Survey finds people prefer wrist or arm as best for wearable tech

Nissan to unveil electric sports car at Tokyo Motor Show

China's October exports rise better-than-expected 5.6%

London Metal Exchange announces warehouse shake-up

Monkeys use minds to move two virtual arms

New aluminum alloy stores hydrogen

Free Newsletters - Space - Defense - Environment - Energy

Buy Advertising

Media Advertising Kit

Editorial & Other Enquiries

Privacy statement

The contents herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2013 - SpaceDaily. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy statement