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December 24, 2013
SPACE TRAVEL
Working With NASA On The Space Structures Of The Future
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NASA is seeking to advance a technology with the potential to drastically change how we envision transporting and safeguarding astronauts: inflatable structures. Space structure engineers and designers have identified inflatables as a lightweight and durable supplement to current human spaceflight architectures. NASA has recognized a number of potential applications for the versatile technology including use as an airlock for spacewalking astronauts, an expandable living space for crewed spacecraf ... read more
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LAUNCH PAD

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for InSight Mission
NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC of Centennial, Colo., to launch the Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission to Mars. InSigh ... more
VSAT NEWS

Gilat Awarded Project from Colombia's MINTIC
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has been awarded a project valued at $99-million over approximately three and a half years. The contract for the project is expected to be signed shortly. In support of ... more
TECH SPACE

Salty surprise -- ordinary table salt turns into 'forbidden' forms
High-pressure experiments with ordinary table salt have produced new chemical compounds that should not exist according to the textbook rules of chemistry. The study at DESY's X-ray source PETRA III ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Charge Order competes with superconductivity
Superconductors are materials that can conduct electricity without any loss of energy. In order to exhibit this property, however, classical superconductors need to be cooled almost to absolute zero ... more


TECH SPACE

Salt under pressure is not NaCl
In the very beginning of the school chemistry course, we are told of NaCl as an archetypal ionic compound. Being less electronegative, sodium loses its electron to chlorine, which, following the "oc ... more
The Year In Space
CHIP TECH

The analogue of a tsunami for telecommunication
Development of electronics and communication requires a hardware base capable for increasingly larger precision, ergonomics and throughput. For communication and GPS-navigation satellites, it is of ... more
ENERGY TECH

'Universal ripple' could hold the secret to high-temperature superconductivity
UBC researchers have discovered a universal electronic state that controls the behavior of high-temperature superconducting copper-oxide ceramics. The work, published this week in the journal ... more
Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
Europe 'not ready' for Russian drone attack: EU defence chief
Zelensky meets Macron seeking air defence deal for Ukraine: AFP
North Korea says Seoul-US sub deal will trigger 'nuclear domino' effect
DRAGON SPACE

China's moon rover continues lunar survey after photographing lander
China's first moon rover, Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, continued patrol explorations on the lunar surface after taking photos of the lander for the fifth and final time early on Sunday. According to ... more
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Orbital Launches Completes 40th Consecutive Successful Suborbital Rocket For NASA
NASA Sounding Rocket Operations Contract II (NSROC II) team at Wallops Island, Virginia recently completed its 40th consecutive successful mission over the last 24 months for NASA's Sounding Rocket ... more
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Argentina successfully launches research rocket
Argentina has successfully launched a research rocket as part of its space program, the Defense Ministry said on Friday. The launch took place on Wednesday in the city of Chamical, in La Rioja ... more
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MISSILE DEFENSE

SBIRS Geo-2 Missile Defense Early Warning Satellite Certified For Operation
The second Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) satellite built by Lockheed Martin to provide our nation continuous early warning of ballistic missile launches and ot ... more
MISSILE DEFENSE

Raytheon begins building 12th AN/TPY-2 ballistic missile defense radar
The U.S. is taking another positive step toward meeting the growing demand for systems that can help protect against the increasing danger posed by ballistic missiles. Raytheon has started bui ... more
24/7 News Coverage
UN regulator says shipping still wants to decarbonize -- despite US threats
Climate talks run into night as COP30 hosts seek breakthrough
Carbon capture promoters turn up in numbers at COP30: NGO
TECH SPACE

Researchers Design First Battery-Powered Invisibility Cloaking Device
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have proposed the first design of a cloaking device that uses an external source of energy to significantly broaden its bandwidth of operation. ... more
TECH SPACE

'Macrocells' influence corrosion rate of submerged marine concrete structures
Using numerical modeling, an Italian research team has discovered the role 'macrocells' play in the corrosion of hollow submerged marine concrete structures such as tunnels and parking structures. ... more
TECH SPACE

Toward lowering titanium's cost and environmental footprint for lightweight products
A novel method for extracting titanium, a metal highly valued for its light weight, high strength, corrosion resistance and biocompatibility, could lower its cost and make it more widely accessible, ... more
TECH SPACE
Europe's Gaia telescope detaches from Fregat-MT upper stage

Sailing satellites into safe retirement

Researchers Design First Battery-Powered Invisibility Cloaking Device


TECH SPACE
Military Communication Improved as 6th Boeing-built Wideband Satellite Enters Service

Radio Gateway Connects US and Allied Troops to a Common Mobile Network

Northrop Grumman Reinvents Satellite Communications for Aircraft


TECH SPACE
Orbital Launches Completes 40th Consecutive Successful Suborbital Rocket For NASA

NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for InSight Mission

Argentina successfully launches research rocket


TECH SPACE
Nepal uses satellite to track rare snow leopard

CSP MEMS Oscillator Paired with Mini GPS Receiver

Raytheon receives $16 million contract award for miniaturized airborne GPS receivers

ENERGY TECH

Roots of the Lithium Battery Problem
The lithium-ion batteries that power our laptops, smartphones and electric vehicles could have significantly higher energy density if their graphite anodes were to be replaced by lithium metal anode ... more
CHIP TECH

Sharpening the focus in quantum photolithography
Photolithography uses light beams to design thin geometric patterns on the substrates of semiconductors used in microelectronic devices. This is achieved using a chemical reaction on a light-sensiti ... more
CHIP TECH

Theorists Predict New State of Quantum Matter May Have Big Impact on Electronics
Constantly losing energy is something we deal with in everything we do. If you stop pedaling a bike, it gradually slows; if you let off the gas, your car also slows. As these vehicles move, they als ... more
TECH SPACE

Targeted synthesis of natural products with light
Photoreactions are driven by light energy and are vital to the synthesis of many natural substances. Since many of these substances are also useful as active medical agents, chemists try to produce ... more
24/7 Energy News Coverage
New standards needed to manage marine carbon removal efforts
Microbes join forces to quickly clean up uranium pollution
Record support in Norway for fossil fuel drilling: study
CHIP TECH

Low-power tunneling transistor for high-performance devices at low voltage

TECH SPACE

New system allows for high-accuracy, through-wall, 3-D motion tracking

ENERGY TECH

SMUD Visualizes Smart Grid with Space-Time Insight's Situational Intelligence Software

DRAGON SPACE

China's Yutu "naps", awakens and explores

TECH SPACE

Sailing satellites into safe retirement

TECH SPACE

Europe's Gaia telescope detaches from Fregat-MT upper stage

ENERGY TECH

Japan researcher builds device to transmit 'force'

AEROSPACE

Northrop Grumman Expands Support For Japan E-2C Hawkeye Program

MILTECH

Russia's Kalashnikov, designer of AK-47, dies

MILTECH

Boeing Delivers Final Focused Lethality Munition to USAF

US Army Awards Raytheon contract for Excalibur Ib

China launches communications satellite for Bolivia

Diehl-Raytheon Missile Systeme GmbH captures $30 million international Sidewinder missile sale

Northrop Grumman, NASA Fly Global Hawk in Canadian Airspace for First Time to Study Canadian Arctic

Satellite of Russia's early warning constellation burns down in atmosphere

Russia's Putin pledges $1.5 billion for basic science research

Emirates shoot down BAE's $6B Typhoon jet deal

AgustaWestland wins $1.6B helicopter contract

A new conceptual configuration for air-breathing hypersonic airplanes

Brazil picks Sweden's Gripen for its air force

Uruguay will keep peacekeepers in Haiti through 2014

China interbank rates surge again despite cash injection

Scientific data lost at alarming rate

Lockheed Martin Team Moves Forward In DARPA Robotics Challenge

Finnish Santa Claus wants to go global, all year round

Chinese users welcome Apple, China Mobile deal

Apple, China Mobile sign iPhone deal

After security breach, US retailer Target offers discount

Sonar search for China tycoon missing after France chopper crash

China city caps car-buying to curb pollution

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