News tagged with module
Rice students invent slingshot-driven test for Air Force
What do you get when you combine a slingshot, a fish tank, a stack of 2-by-4s and five engineering students determined to help the United States Air Force?
May 31, 2012 |
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NASA conducts tests on Orion service module
(Phys.org) -- Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center are testing parts of the Orion service module to ensure the spacecraft can withstand the harsh realities of deep space missions.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 11, 2012 |
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Navigating the shopping center
With a GPS receiver in your smartphone, you can navigate your way over highways and streets with certainty. But once you get inside a building, it provides no further assistance. That’s why Fraunhofer ...
May 10, 2012 |
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To DDR3: Thanks for the memory but time for DDR4
(Phys.org) -- Micron Technology is polishing up its DDR4 memory modules, “sampling” the modules and getting feedback from major customers. The company plans to reach volume production later this year ...
May 10, 2012 |
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NASA engineers testing Webb telescope's OSIM and BIA instruments
(Phys.org) -- Several critical items related to NASA's next-generation James Webb Space Telescope are being tested in the giant thermal vacuum test chamber at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 12, 2012 |
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Power factor correction: TDK's thyristor module for single-phase PFC
The TDK Corporation has extended its range of EPCOS thyristor modules for dynamic PFC. The new TSM-LC-I module now also allows single-phase PFC of networks with rated voltages from 230 to 525 V AC. Depending ...
Apr 11, 2012 |
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Space Image: Gumdrop meets Spider
(PhysOrg.com) -- This image, taken on March 6, 1969, shows the Apollo 9 Command and Service Modules docked with the Lunar Module.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 07, 2012 |
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Space Image: Apollo 15 - Follow the tracks
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Apollo 15 Lunar Module (LM) Falcon set down on the Hadley plains (26.132°N, 3.634°E) a mere 2 kilometers from Hadley Rille.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 06, 2012 |
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Graphene-based optical modulators poised to break speed limits in digital communications
In yet another astounding application of the "wonder material" graphene, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley discovered that it makes an excellent active media for optical modulators. Graphene-based modulators ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 01, 2012 |
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NEC breaks the speed barriers of microwave transmission with ultra high modulations
NEC Corporation introduced today the latest breakthrough in capacity performance of microwave radio systems used in mobile backhaul and other types of networking applications. NEC will implement 2048 Quadrature Amplitude ...
Feb 28, 2012 |
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The thirty-ninth anniversary of the last moonwalk
On December 13, 1972, Apollo 17 Commander Eugene A. Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Harrison H. “Jack” Schmitt made the final lunar EVA or moonwalk of the final Apollo mission. Theirs was the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 14, 2011 |
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Oerlikon Solar works to pull down PV costs in 2014
(PhysOrg.com) -- Switzerland-based Oerlikon Solar, kingpins in thin film silicon solar module equipment, has announced that it has reached a milestone in reducing the cost of production for its thin-film silicon ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Dec 07, 2011 |
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Apollo 13 checklist part of space artifacts auction
A notebook containing Apollo 13 commander James Lovell's handwritten calculations to guide the damaged spacecraft back to Earth is being auctioned along with other artifacts from the 1970 mission.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 23, 2011 |
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Image: Orion seen from the Rover
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Apollo 16 Lunar Module "Orion" is photographed from a distance by astronaut Chares M. Duke Jr., Lunar Module pilot, aboard the moving Lunar Roving Vehicle.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Mars Express observations temporarily suspended
(PhysOrg.com) -- Anomalies in the operation of the solid-state mass memory system on board Mars Express have caused science observations to be temporarily halted. A technical work-around is being investigated ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 02, 2011 |
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