TECH SPACE - SKY NIGHTLY

Printing self-folding paper structures for future mechatronics

Nov 10, 2020 (SPX)

Surprisingly, it turns out that this type of motion could become the basis to produce new types of robots and mechatronic devices. In a recent study published i...

Exceptional ground and flight demonstrations lead way to further applicability across programs

Nov 10, 2020 (SPX)

For the demonstrations, an advanced Northrop Grumman wideband AESA sensor was connected to an OMS-compliant mission computing system provided by Boeing. After i...

New Xbox hits stores, launching holiday season console war

Nov 10, 2020 (AFP)

The Xbox Series X launches just two days before Sony's next generation PlayStation 5, in a head-to-head likely to dominate the gaming sector this shopping seaso...

Optimizing the design of new materials

Nov 09, 2020 (SPX)

The new strategy, a collaboration between Professors James Rondinelli and Wei Chen, integrated techniques from statistical inference, optimization theory, and c...

Diversity, streaming reshape video games for a new generation

Nov 06, 2020 (AFP)

The Japanese tech giant and its American rival Microsoft are preparing to launch their latest consoles next week, competing in an estimated $175 billion global ...

Portrait transmitted via 3D printing

Nov 06, 2020 (ESA)

ESA non-metallic materials and processes engineer Ugo Lafont explains: "In recent years we have been working on 3D printing using 'polyether ether ketone' - or ...

3D print experts discover how to make tomorrow's technology using ink-jet printed graphene

Nov 05, 2020 (SPX)

The study shows that it is possible to jet inks, containing tiny flakes of 2D materials such as graphene, to build up and mesh together the different layers of ...

Monitoring open-cast mines better than before

Nov 05, 2020 (SPX)

The three researchers used a special radar method, the Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR), to investigate lignite regions in North Rhine-Westphalia...

Price, date, games... PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X

Nov 05, 2020 (AFP)

Microsoft is hoping the Xbox Series X will help it close the gap with Sony, which has sold twice as many PlayStation 4 consoles as did Microsoft its Xbox One si...

SpacePath ships compact, lightweight high-power amplifiers for European SATCOM project

Nov 04, 2020 (SPX)

As part of a multi-stage contract, SpacePath has successfully shipped the first batch of its new outdoor, Ka-band TWT amplifiers (TWTA) to a leading European sy...

Industrial-strength brine, meet your kryptonite

Nov 04, 2020 (SPX)

In addition, many industries pay high disposal costs for wastewater with high salt concentrations that cannot be treated using conventional technologies. Revers...

Building cities with wood would store half of cement industry's current carbon emissions

Nov 03, 2020 (SPX)

A recent study by researchers at Aalto University and the Finnish Environment Institute shows that shifting to wood as a building construction material would si...

Sheer protection from electromagnetic radiation

Nov 03, 2020 (SPX)

Metals, such as copper and gold, generate little heat when a current flows through them. For this reason, these high-conductivity materials are used extensively...

Tunisian startup 3D prints solar-powered bionic hands

Nov 03, 2020 (AFP)

Unlike traditional devices, the artificial hand can be customised for children and youths, who otherwise require an expensive series of resized models as they g...

Glasgow artist launches plastic bag museum

Nov 01, 2020 (AFP)

But the items she places on the table of a makeshift studio in an old tobacco pipe factory in the east end of Glasgow are rather more mundane -- plastic carrier...

Real-world politics invade video games ahead of US election

Nov 01, 2020 (AFP)

Gamers with a different political tilt can visit Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden at his headquarters in Animal Crossing, and display his campaign po...

Computer from RUAG Space controls environmental satellite Sentinel-6

Oct 30, 2020 (SPX)

The launch is scheduled for November 10, 2020 from the Vandenberg launchsite in California, USA, aboard a Falcon-9 rocket. "Key products from us make this impor...

France using ExoOPSTM software for mission design and satellite operation

Oct 30, 2020 (SPX)

Available as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), ExoOPSTM - Mission Design relies on an orbital mechanics environment designed and developed by Exotrail software an...

NXTCOMM leases capacity on Eutelsat for its electronically steered antenna

Oct 29, 2020 (SPX)

In June, NXTCOMM unveiled its new Electronically Steered Antenna (ESA), a building block for a portfolio of next-generation, lower-cost commercial satellite ant...

Researchers break magnetic memory speed record

Oct 29, 2020 (SPX)

In a paper published in the journal Nature Electronics, an international team of researchers has reported a new technique for magnetization switching - the proc...