News tagged with martin
Orion Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor Lights Up Sky
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It looked like a light show in Elkton, Md., on Tuesday, Dec. 15, as NASA ground tested a full-scale attitude control motor, or ACM. The motor operated with precision as its elaborate eight-valve ...
NASA Uses Twin Processes to Develop New Tank Dome Technology
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has partnered with Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver, Colo., and MT Aerospace in Augsburg, Germany, to successfully manufacture the first full-scale friction stir welded and spun ...
This smart wheelchair has laser vision
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Disability, John Spletzer believes, should no longer pose any obstacle to mobility. A blind person may not be able to see or a paraplegic to walk, but each can access the technology available ...
Space panel considers alternatives to NASA's plan for moon base
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 31, 2009 |
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A presidential space panel on Thursday challenged NASA's vision of establishing a base on the moon and instead weighed other ambitious options that include free-ranging spaceships that could visit destinations throughout ...
NASA is 'go' for crucial rocket test
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 25, 2009 |
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NASA is set to blast off a prototype rocket on Tuesday that carries hopes of returning humans to the Moon, and for the first time to Mars, despite deep uncertainty about the program's future.
Air Force Center of Excellence awarded in nanostructures and improved cognition
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 01, 2009 |
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The Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded a U.S. Air Force Center of Excellence to design nanostructures for energy harvesting and adaptive materials, and to develop tools to optimize critical cognitive ...
GOES-P satellite preparing for launch in March 2010
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 16, 2009 |
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Just two months after the successful launch of the GOES-O spacecraft, now called GOES-14 in orbit, the NASA team removed the GOES-P spacecraft from storage and commenced its post storage testing. GOES-P is ...
Ariane 5 places Japan, Australia satellites in orbit
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 22, 2009 |
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An Ariane 5 rocket successfully placed communications satellites into geostationary orbit on Friday for Japan's SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation and Australian operator Optus, according to Arianespace.
Lockheed Martin aerospace division to cut 800 jobs
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, a division of US global security firm Lockheed Martin Corporation, said Monday it would cut about 800 jobs by year-end to improve its competitiveness.
A good ear: Rats identify specific sounds in noisy environments
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 18, 2008 |
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A study conducted on hundreds of rats could help us understand how the brain identifies specific sounds in a noisy environment. The investigation, soon to be published in the journal Brain, was conducted by Alex Martin of ...
Heat Shield Readied for Next Mars Rover
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 10, 2009 |
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Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, has finished building and testing the heat shield for protecting the Curiosity rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory project. This heat shield is even larger than the ...
Senator may have won fight over private rocket manufacturing
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 03, 2009 |
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For months, a powerful Republican senator from Alabama has fought the Obama administration to block $150 million that the White House wanted to spend to help private companies build rockets capable of reaching the international ...
Nottingham technology gives Bond the edge
Oct 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Technology developed at The University of Nottingham will be giving James Bond the edge over his enemies when the latest high octane 007 adventure hits cinema screens later this week.
