News tagged with motor performance

Thin drives -- the next generation of portable memory

Tablets are fast becoming the media device of choice nowadays for work and play, particularly with the advent of iPads and the Samsung Galaxy Tab into the mobile device market. With a volume of 19.5 million ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 14

NASA successfully tests five-segment solid rocket motor

NASA and ATK Space Systems successfully completed a two-minute, full-scale test of Development Motor-3 (DM-3), Thursday, Sept. 8. DM-3 is NASA's largest and most powerful solid rocket motor ever designed for ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 30 | with audio podcast

Toshiba's SCiB rechargeable battery selected for new electric vehicles

Toshiba Corporation today announced that its SCiB battery has been selected by Mitsubishi Motors Corporation to power two new models of electric vehicles (EV), the i-MiEV and MINICAB-MiEV. The SCiB is Toshiba's ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

NASA and ATK successfully test five-segment solid rocket motor (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- With a loud roar and mighty column of flame, NASA and ATK Aerospace Systems successfully completed a two-minute, full-scale test of the largest and most powerful solid rocket motor designed ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 31, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Superstition proved to improve performance

(PhysOrg.com) -- Superstitions are often regarded as irrational and inconsequential, but researchers in Germany have been taking them seriously, trying to identify the benefits of superstitions, if any, and their underlying ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 14, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 10 | with audio podcast report

NASA's Space Shuttle Program Conducts Final Motor Test In Utah (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Space Shuttle Program conducted the final test firing of a reusable solid rocket motor Feb. 25 in Promontory, Utah.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Virtual Reality May Help Arm Minds for Combat

(PhysOrg.com) -- The UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth received a federal grant to fund research examining brain performance enhancement in America’s fighting men and women through the use of state-of-the-art ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Light electric motor spins out

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new Oxford University spin-out company, Oxford Yasa Motors, has been set up to commercialise lightweight electric motors developed at the Department of Engineering Science. The new technology ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 4