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New Materials Designed To Deal With Hypersonic And Supersonic Hot StuffBrisbane, Australia (SPX) Dec 28, 2009 University of Queensland researchers are testing new materials to withstand the extreme heat experienced by hypersonic vehicles in flight so they can fly for substantially longer. Previous Australian experimental flight tests of scramjets, a type of very fast jet engine, have not lasted longer than five seconds. The tests, conducted at Woomera in South Australia over the past eight years, have used scramjet engines made of conventional materials which have problems with extreme heat including melting, and are not designed for re-use. ... read more |
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Paris (AFP) Dec 27, 2009Stories that defined the first decade of the 21st century: SEPTEMBER 11 From a lair in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden shook the United States to the core on a blue-skyed day in 2001, setting the stage for a decade of conflict. Nineteen Al-Qaeda hijackers took over four passenger jets on innocuous domestic flights: two crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York, one into the ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 25, 2009Spirit's drive on Sol 2120 (Dec. 19, 2009) included commands for using all six wheels. However, the right-front wheel rotated less than 2 degrees and the right-rear wheel did not rotate at all. The other four wheels completed enough rotations to drive about 10 meters (33 feet), but produced no measurable forward motion by the rover. The rover team plans to command further driving this week while continuing to assess the possibility of getting more motion from the right-front wheel. ... more  
New Delhi, India (PTI) Dec 22, 2009The next moon mission - Chandrayaan-II - will use advanced technologies, the Rajya Sabha was told today. The next moon mission will have an orbiter, a lander and rovers which use advanced technologies, Science and Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan said in a written reply. Concepts of low-cost planetary mission have been discussed at an international conference recently in Goa ... more |
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Boston MA (SPX) Dec 22, 2009In the new blockbuster Avatar, humans visit the habitable - and inhabited - alien moon called Pandora. Life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor are a staple of science fiction. With NASA's Kepler mission showing the potential to detect Earth-sized objects, habitable moons may soon become science fact. If we find them nearby, a new paper by Smithsonian ... more  
London, UK (SPX) Dec 22, 2009The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), the body responsible for funding UK astronomy, has reported the results of its Prioritization Exercise, announcing projects chosen for continued funding and those where support will be withdrawn. The Royal Astronomical Society welcomes the long-term commitment to projects like the European Southern Observatory (ESO). UK involvement in ... more 
Zirakpur, India (SPX) Dec 23, 2009Only 20% of the 12,000-odd artificial objects, including satellites, are operational in space, but unwanted "debris" are causing a lot of problem in launching new ones, former ISRO director Suresh Naik said. There are around 12,000 satellites and other artificial objects in the space, out of which only 20% are active. Satellites have a life of 15-20 years, and then they get lost in space ... more |
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