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July 15, 2014

Marshall Propellant Tank Tech Benefits SLS Development
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 15, 2014
Take a two-liter bottle, and fill it with water. Now, turn it upside down. Did you see a lot of bubbles as the liquid drains rapidly from the top? That's because air is trying to get back in the bottle due to the low pressure created in the space above the liquid as it runs out. When it comes to liquid propellant tanks for rockets, the same scenario applies. While the engines are running, fuel drains at a rapid speed from the tanks. However, to prevent the low pressure from reducing the cont ... read more

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Fruit Flies on the ISS Fruit flies are bug eyed and spindly, they love rotten bananas, and, following orders from their pin-sized brains, they can lay hundreds of eggs every day. We have a lot in common. Genetically ... more		'Dry Ice' Cause of Gullies on Mars Seasonal carbon dioxide frost, not liquid water, is the main driver in forming gullies on Mars today, according to a recent U.S. Geological Survey study that relied on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orb ... more		Third MUOS satellite heads for final checkout A third Mobile User Objective System satellite for the U.S. Navy has completed environmental testing and is now entering the final checkout stage before launch. ... more
				Venus Express Rises Again After a month surfing in and out of the atmosphere of Venus down to just 130 km from the planet's surface, ESA's Venus Express is about to embark on a 15 day climb up to the lofty heights of 460 km. ... more		Crew Awaits Cygnus Arrival and Progress Departure The six-member Expedition 40 crew starts off its workweek waiting for the arrival of Orbital Sciences' Cygnus commercial craft. Cygnus, on the Orb-2 mission, launched from Virginia Sunday carrying n ... more

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Four JPL Suborbital Technology Payloads Chosen From hopping/tumbling robots to gecko-inspired adhesives, a variety of technologies have been chosen by NASA for flight on commercial reusable launch vehicles and a commercial parabolic aircraft. Th ... more		Russian Scientists Develop Liquid Test System for ISS Russian scientists have developed a system that makes possible a long-term experiment at the International Space Station (ISS) testing liquids in zero gravity in the near future, a representative of ... more		Major advancements in US space domain awareness through Space Systems Command Enhancing connectivity and readiness at Space Systems Command Space Systems Command Completes Key Software Upgrade for OPIR Monitoring at FORGE		Further Evidence of Dry Ice Gullies on Mars Repeated high-resolution observations made by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) indicate the gullies on Mars' surface are primarily formed by the seasonal freezing of carbon dioxide, not liqu ... more
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Your next opponent in Angry Birds could be a robot With the help of a smart tablet and Angry Birds, children can now do something typically reserved for engineers and computer scientists: program a robot to learn new skills. The Georgia Institute of ... more		Uncertainty gives scientists new confidence in search for novel materials Scientists at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have found a way to estimate uncertainties in computer calculations that are widely used to spee ... more		NASA's ORCA, AirHARP Projects Paved Way for PACE to Reach Space NASA study reveals comprehensive global river water accounting Asterra debuts groundbreaking L-band SAR API for commercial use		Silicon sponge improves lithium-ion battery performance The lithium-ion batteries that power our laptops and electric vehicles could store more energy and run longer on a single charge with the help of a sponge-like silicon material. Researchers de ... more
In exactly one year, NASA's New Horizons probe will reach Pluto Exactly one year from today, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will make its closest approach to the far-away dwarf planet Pluto - the icy pseudo-planet's first manmade visitor. ... more		Using Sand to Improve Battery Performance Researchers at the University of California, Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering have created a lithium ion battery that outperforms the current industry standard by three times. The key mater ... more		RUB chemists develop novel catalyst with two functions Chemists at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum have made a decisive step towards more cost-efficient regenerative fuel cells and rechargeable metal-air batteries. They developed a new type of catalyst on t ... more		Flexlab Opens Test Beds to Drive Dramatic Increase in Building Efficiency The world's most advanced energy efficiency test bed for buildings is open for business, launched by U.S. Department of Energy Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman. DOE's FLEXLAB at Lawrence Berkeley Nat ... more

	Getting a charge out of water droplets Last year, MIT researchers discovered that when water droplets spontaneously jump away from superhydrophobic surfaces during condensation, they can gain electric charge in the process. Now, the same ... more		IBM to spend $3 bn aiming for computer chip breakthrough IBM announced plans Wednesday to pump $3 billion into an overhaul of computer chip technology to better meet modern demands of "Big Data" and computing pushed to the Internet "cloud." ... more

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