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Northrop Grumman has been awarded a US$187 million contract to design the Habitation And Logistics Outpost (HALO) crew module for NASA’s Gateway deep space outpost. Based on the unmanned Cygnus cargo spacecraft developed by Northrop subsidiary Orbital … Continue reading Northrop Grumman selected to design and build Gateway’s habitat module
Constructed using 3D printing technology, the Prometheus is a liquid-fueled rocket engine demonstrator that is intended as the model for the next generation of potentially reusable propulsion systems suitable for a wide variety of launch vehicles. Bein… Continue reading ESA’s Prometheus to usher in cheaper, reusable next-gen rocket engines
The US Navy’s Blue Angels acrobatic team has taken delivery of its first F/A-18 Super Hornet test aircraft. The fighter is the first of 11 Boeing plans to deliver to the Navy team this year and will be used for flight testing and evaluation.Continue Re… Continue reading US Navy Blue Angels receive first Super Hornet fighter jet
Engineers at the Fraunhofer Italia Innovation Engineering Center (IEC) in Bolzano, Italy, are developing software that would enable a robot assistant to help on construction sites. Based on the Husky A200 research platform, the mobile robot uses new na… Continue reading Giving robotic laborers the smarts to help construction crews on-site
3D printing is set to go to sea in the form of an additive manufacturing technique for repairing submarines. Being developed by Australia’s dedicated submarine sustainment organization, ASC, in partnership with the CSIRO and DMTC Limited, the cold spra… Continue reading Australia turns to 3D printing to maintain its submarine fleet
BAE Systems has successfully tested a tactical ground-based version of its Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) laser-guided rocket. Designed to allow ground combat units to engage distant targets without air support, the rockets were fired fr… Continue reading BAE Systems adapts rocket to provide soldiers with their own air support
Chitin derived from shrimps, mushrooms, and other organisms may lead to new 3D-printed, multi-layered polymer coatings to protect soldiers against bullets, lasers, toxic gases, microbes, and other hazards.Continue ReadingCategory: Materials, ScienceTag… Continue reading Shrimp shells to serve as the basis for new multi-protective coatings
Chitin derived from shrimps, mushrooms, and other organisms may lead to new 3D-printed, multi-layered polymer coatings to protect soldiers against bullets, lasers, toxic gases, microbes, and other hazards.Continue ReadingCategory: Materials, ScienceTag… Continue reading Shrimp shells to serve as the basis for new multi-protective coatings
History was made today as the United States launched the first manned commercial mission into orbit. At 3:22 pm EDT, the SpaceX Demo-2 spacecraft carrying astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy… Continue reading America returns to manned spaceflight with launch of SpaceX Demo-2
A team of international researchers has confirmed the existence of an Earth-like exoplanet only 4.2 light-years from the Sun. Using the Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectroscopic Observations (ESPRESSO), the scientists found tha… Continue reading Closest exoplanet more Earth-like than previously thought