TECH SPACE - BIO FUEL DAILY

First of Two Van Allen Probes Spacecraft Ceases Operations

Jul 24, 2019 (SPX)

As expected, following final de-orbit maneuvers in February of this year, the spacecraft has used its remaining propellant to keep its solar panels pointed at t...

Probe opened in France over radioactive water rumours

Jul 23, 2019 (AFP)

In a viral message spread on the WhatsApp messaging app last week, a woman presenting herself as a nurse from a hospital in Paris can be heard telling people no...

NUS 'smart' textiles boost connectivity between wearable sensors by 1,000 times

Jul 22, 2019 (SPX)

Now, researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have invented a completely new way for wearable devices to interconnect. They incorporated cond...

Electronic chip mimics the brain to make memories in a flash

Jul 22, 2019 (SPX)

Optogenetics allows scientists to delve into the body's electrical system with incredible precision, using light to manipulate neurons so that they can be turne...

Raytheon get $27.4M payment for work on Navy's AMDR program

Jul 22, 2019 (UPI)

The award settles a request for equitable adjustment for contractor provision after a government change order by the AMDR program's Pacific Missile Range Facili...

Mapping the Moon and Worlds Beyond

Jul 18, 2019 (SPX)

"See that little antenna sticking out there? That was the first planetary radar on a spacecraft, and while it went around the moon, it pinged the surface," she ...

Raytheon nets $40.2M for variants of Navy's AN/SPY-6 radar

Jul 17, 2019 (UPI)

The contract, announced on Tuesday, exercises an option for fiscal 2019 production long lead material in support of the production of two configurations of the ...

Stonehenge construction may have been aided by lots of pig fat

Jul 16, 2019 (UPI)

New research suggests lard may have played a surprisingly important role in the monument-building enterprise. Over the years, researchers have solved several of...

Radiation levels at Marshall Islands test sites 10 times greater than Chernobyl

Jul 16, 2019 (UPI)

In the 1940s and '50s, federal officials forcibly removed inhabitants from several of the Marshall Islands, a collection of coral atolls in the Pacific, to make...

New developments with Chinese satellites over the past decade

Jul 13, 2019 (SPX)

"The FY series satellite program has gone through four main stages," according to Dr. Peng Zheng, Deputy Director at the National Satellite Meteorological Cente...

NASA funds demo of 3D-Printed spacecraft parts made, assembled in orbit

Jul 13, 2019 (SPX)

The contract is the start of the second phase of a partnership established through NASA's Tipping Point solicitation. The public-private partnership combines NA...

Boeing selects Raytheon for B-52 radar replacement

Jul 12, 2019 (UPI)

Raytheon will design, develop, produce and sustain active electronically scanned array radar systems for the USAF's fleet of 77 B-52 bombers, Raytheon announced...

Perseverance is key to NASA's advancement of alloys for bearings and gears

Jul 11, 2019 (SPX)

It started in 2004, when Glenn Glennon - an employee of Connecticut's Abbott Ball Company - talked to DellaCorte about applying Nitinol (a nickel-titanium alloy...

Tungsten as interstellar radiation shielding?

Jul 11, 2019 (SPX)

Based on these findings, not only the tungsten biogeochemistry, but also the survivability of microorganisms in outer space conditions can be investigated. The ...

New high-definition satellite radar can detect bridges at risk of collapse from space

Jul 11, 2019 (SPX)

Combining data from a new generation of satellites with a sophisticated algorithm, the monitoring system could be used by governments or developers to act as a ...

Astroscale advances debris removal concept through ESA and OneWeb Sunrise Project

Jul 11, 2019 (SPX)

The Sunrise Project, which is a part of the ESA ARTES programme, was created to develop technologies for future generation telecommunication satellite missions ...

Gene-editing enzymes imaged in 3D

Jul 08, 2019 (UPI)

The breakthrough -- described Monday in the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology -- helped scientists see exactly how the gene-editing technology cal...

BAE nets $4.7M by DARPA to integrate machine learning into RF signals detection

Jul 08, 2019 (UPI)

The technology will be used in platforms to decipher the signals, BAE said in a news release Monday. Signals intelligence, or SIGINT, provides to the military a...

First observation of native ferroelectric metal

Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)

The study represents the first example of a native metal with bistable and electrically switchable spontaneous polarization states - the hallmark of ferroelectr...

RUBI - Full steam ahead for the ISS

Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)

ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano is set to install RUBI in the Columbus module of the ISS during his five-month 'Beyond' mission (from July to December 2019). The f...