TECH SPACE - BIO FUEL DAILY

Gamma-ray laser moves a step closer to reality

Dec 09, 2019 (SPX)

The calculations take scientists a step closer to realizing a gamma-ray laser, which may have applications in medical imaging, spacecraft propulsion, and cancer...

UV-Bodyguard by ajuma - sophisticated technology to prevent sunburn

Dec 09, 2019 (SPX)

UV-Bodyguard is a wearable that is connected to an app on the user's smartphone and constantly measures levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation. In this way, outdo...

ESA to fund world's first space debris removal mission

Dec 09, 2019 (UPI)

The mission, announced Monday, will be executed by a consortium of aerospace companies, led by the Swiss startup Clearspace, which was founded by a group of spa...

SN Now: The Final Installment of SCaN Now

Dec 08, 2019 (SPX)

NASA's three space communications networks - the Deep Space Network (DSN), the Near Earth Network (NEN) and the Space Network (SN) - provide radio frequency com...

Life of a foam

Dec 08, 2019 (ESA)

Beyond the pleasures of sipping a cappuccino with its signature froth, the presence of foams in our daily lives extends to food, detergents, cosmetics and medic...

L3 technologies receives $37.5M for precision aiming lasers

Dec 05, 2019 (UPI)

The precision aiming laser combines a range finder with a ballistics and environmental sensor to prepare the operator for increased likelihood of a first-round ...

Molecular vibrations lead to high performance laser

Dec 03, 2019 (SPX)

Professor Andrea Armani and her team at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have discovered a new phenomenon and used it to make a laser with over 40 percent ...

Virtual reality becomes more real

Dec 03, 2019 (SPX)

When taking a photo, we capture visual information about objects around us, with the different pixels in the image containing the colors of the respective parts...

Dutch antennas unfolded behind the moon

Nov 30, 2019 (SPX)

The Chinese satellite was previously mainly seen as a communications satellite. However, the Chinese moon mission has by now achieved its primary goals. Consequ...

First measures of Earth's ionosphere found with the largest atmospheric radar in the Antarctic

Nov 28, 2019 (SPX)

This dance was previously measured through a method called incoherent scatter radar in the northern hemisphere, where researchers beam radio wave into the ionos...

Cleaning the dishes is a dusty job in outback Australia

Nov 28, 2019 (ESA)

Early this November, ESA's Deep Space Antenna in New Norcia, Australia, was subject to major maintenance, with a wide range of updates implemented to keep it in...

New launch communications segment empowers Artemis

Nov 28, 2019 (SPX)

On Robert H. Goddard Road at Kennedy, a small dome housing a 20-foot antenna rises from the surrounding wetlands. This new ground station is the Kennedy Uplink ...

Glass from a 3D printer

Nov 28, 2019 (SPX)

Researchers from ETH Zurich have now used a new technique to produce complex glass objects with 3D printing. The method is based on stereolithography, one of th...

Smart satellites to the rescue of broken satellites

Nov 27, 2019 (SPX)

They become expensive and dangerous flotsam, orbiting Earth for years or generations until gravity eventually draws them to a fiery death in the atmosphere.? Un...

Small, fast, and highly energy-efficient memory device inspired by lithium-ion batteries

Nov 25, 2019 (SPX)

The speed of DRAM is very important and can have a significant impact in the overall speed of the system. In addition, lowering the energy consumption of memory...

NASA rockets study why tech goes haywire near poles

Nov 25, 2019 (SPX)

"Most of Earth is shielded from the solar wind," said Mark Conde, space physicist as the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. "But right near the poles, in the midd...

Raytheon nets $97.3M Navy contract for AN/SPY-6 radar work

Nov 25, 2019 (UPI)

The contract calls for performance of the integration of, and production support for, continued combat system integration and test, engineering, training, softw...

University launches new materials to the International Space Station

Nov 22, 2019 (SPX)

The materials were carried to the ISS from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, in a science carrier from Alpha Space Test and Research Alliance of Houston,...

India's Space Minister reveals reason behind 'failed' Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission

Nov 22, 2019 (Sputnik)

India's Federal Space Minister Dr Jitendra Singh admitted for the first time that the failure of the Chadrayaan-2 was due to a reduction in velocity beyond the ...

Scientists turn fossil fuel pollutant into usable industrial chemical

Nov 22, 2019 (UPI)

The new gas-capturing technology can extract NO2 from the exhaust of a power plant or factory, according to the latest research, published this week in the jour...