News tagged with aerospace
'Painless' plasma brush is becoming reality in dentistry, engineers say
University of Missouri engineers and their research collaborators at Nanova, Inc. are one step closer to a painless way to replace fillings. After favorable results in the lab, human clinical trials are underway ...
Dec 20, 2011 |
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Spiraling Flight of Maple Tree Seeds Inspires New Surveillance Technology (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Maple tree seeds (or samara fruit) and the spiraling pattern in which they glide to the ground have delighted children for ages and perplexed engineers for decades. Now aerospace engineering ...
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Wings that waggle could cut aircraft emissions by 20 percent
Wings which redirect air to waggle sideways could cut airline fuel bills by 20% according to research funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Airbus in the UK.
May 21, 2009 |
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NASA, AFOSR Test Environmentally-Friendly Rocket Propellant
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, or AFOSR, have successfully launched a small rocket using an environmentally-friendly, safe propellant comprised of aluminum powder and ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 21, 2009 |
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'Nanostitching' could strengthen airplane skins, more
MIT engineers are using carbon nanotubes only billionths of a meter thick to stitch together aerospace materials in work that could make airplane skins and other products some 10 times stronger at a nominal ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Delicate rescue saves stranded $1.7B US satellite
Air Force ground controllers delicately rescued a $1.7 billion military communications satellite last year that had been stranded in the wrong orbit and at risk of blowing up - all possibly because a piece ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 17, 2012 |
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New Material Mimics Bone To Create Better Biomedical Implants
(PhysOrg.com) -- A "metal foam" that has a similar elasticity to bone could mean a new generation of biomedical implants that would avoid bone rejection that often results from more rigid implant materials, ...
Feb 16, 2010 |
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New camera makes seeing the 'invisible' possible
(PhysOrg.com) -- The science similar to the type used in airport body scanners could soon be used to detect everything from defects in aerospace vehicles or concrete bridges to skin cancer, thanks to researchers ...
Mar 03, 2011 |
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Chemically scrubbing CO2 from the air too expensive
(PhysOrg.com) -- While it is possible to chemically scrub carbon dioxide from Earth's atmosphere in order to lessen the severity of global warming, the process is prohibitively expensive for now. Best to focus ...
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Ball catching robot, 80% accuracy in 5 milliseconds (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- DLR, an aerospace agency based in German, has modified its flagship robot, known as the Rollin’ Justin, in order to make it into a lean, mean, catching machine. The Rollin’ Justin's ...
Apr 29, 2011 |
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Earth-bound asteroids come from stony asteroids, new studies confirm
Researchers got their first up-close look at dust from the surface of a small, stony asteroid after the Hayabusa spacecraft scooped some up and brought it back to Earth. Analysis of these dust particles, detailed ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 25, 2011 |
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Aero-engineers debut open-source fluid dynamics design application
Each fall at technical universities across the world, a new crop of aeronautical and astronautical engineering graduate students settle in for the work that will consume them for the next several years. For many, their first ...
Jan 24, 2012 |
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On a roll: Designing the next rover to explore Mars
The concept of a wind-powered vehicle that can be used to explore the surface of Mars - a so-called "tumbleweed rover" that would roll over the surface of Mars like a tumbleweed - has been around for more ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 02, 2010 |
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Japan enters commercial space race
Japan will put a commercial satellite into space on Friday, officials said, in its first foray into the European- and Russian-dominated world of contract launches.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 16, 2012 |
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Continuous Descent: Saving Fuel and Reducing Noise for Airliners
(PhysOrg.com) -- Airline passengers arriving in Atlanta on early morning “redeye” flights during the past few months may have noticed something different during their descent to the runway. Instead of the ...
Jan 20, 2009 |
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Aerospace
Aerospace comprises the atmosphere of Earth and surrounding space. Typically the term is used to refer to the industry that researches, designs, manufactures, operates, and maintains vehicles moving through air and space. Aerospace is a very diverse field, with a multitude of commercial, industrial and military applications.
Aerospace is not the same as airspace, which is a term used to describe the physical air space directly above a location on the ground. "Aerospace" can be understood as the combination of aeronautics and astronautics.
For more information about Aerospace, read the full article at
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