SpaceX delivers world's first inflatable room for astronauts
SpaceX has made good on a high-priority delivery: the world's first inflatable room for astronauts.
Space Exploration
Apr 10, 2016
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News tagged with aerospace
3-D-printed 'soft' robotic tentacle displays new level of agility (w/ Video)
Cornell University engineers have developed a method to re-create the arrangement of muscles of an octopus tentacle, using an elastomer and 3D printer.
Engineering
Oct 15, 2015
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Faster, stronger, lighter: New technique advances carbon-fiber composites
These days, aerospace engineering is all about the light stuff: building airplanes with lighter wings, fuselage and landing gear in an effort to reduce fuel costs.
Nanomaterials
May 20, 2013
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What is the best radiation shielding for the surface of Mars?
The planet Mars is calling to us. At least, that is the impression one gets when examining all the planned and proposed missions to the red planet in the coming decade. With so many space agencies currently sending missions ...
Space Exploration
Jun 6, 2022
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'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 on the "plasma ...
Plasma Physics
Dec 20, 2011
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'Bubble-through' nuclear engine might be a future NASA workhorse
A cutting-edge nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) rocket engine using what's called centrifugal liquid fuel bubble-through could one day be a ticket for NASA to go directly into deep space.
Space Exploration
Mar 29, 2022
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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 water ice, called ...
Space Exploration
Aug 21, 2009
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What will it take to live on the moon?
With NASA planning to revisit the lunar surface by 2024 and send multiple expeditions by 2028, Rutgers University's Haym Benaroya is optimistic that people will someday live on the moon.
Engineering
Jul 11, 2019
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iPhone 5 with scratch resistant sapphire screen demoed at Mobile World Congress 2013 (w/ video)
(Phys.org)—An iPhone 5 with a layer of man-made sapphire covering its Gorilla Glass 2 screen has been demoed at the Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona. The purpose was to demonstrate how much more scratch resistant ...
How well do wet masks contain droplets? Study shows damp masks still stop respiratory droplet penetration
After studying the effectiveness of varying layers of masks in stopping respiratory droplets from escaping face masks, a team of international researchers has now turned their attention to modeling what happens to droplets ...
Soft Matter
Nov 22, 2021
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