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December 13, 2016

NASA Engineers Test Combustion Chamber to Advance 3-D Printed Rocket Engine Design
Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 13, 2016
Recent tests of a developmental rocket engine at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, produced all the performance data engineers were hoping for, along with the traditional fire and roar. But this engine is anything but traditional. Marshall engineers are designing each of the components from scratch to ultimately be made entirely by additive manufacturing, or 3-D printing, methods. The series of 12 test firings in late fall brought them a big step closer to that goal, said ... read more

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				NASA Scientists see Asteroid through the Eyes of a Robot Retrieving an asteroid sample is no easy task. Doing the job blindfolded is even more challenging. That's why scientists equipped the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft with a set of eyes to watch it all unfold. ... more		A nano-roundabout for light Just like in normal road traffic, crossings are indispensable in optical signal processing. In order to avoid collisions, a clear traffic rule is required. A new method has now been developed at TU ... more

Giving the Sun a brake Astronomers from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA), Brazil, and Stanford University may have solved a long-standing solar mystery. Two decades ago, scientists discovered that th ... more		A new light on stellar death Back in 2015 when astronomers discovered an intense flare in a distant galaxy, they considered it the brightest supernova ever observed. Now, UC Santa Barbara astrophysicists and a group of internat ... more		OneNav introduces new L5-direct GNSS receiver in response to increased GPS jamming U.S. sanctions nearly 300 targets aiding Russia's war against Ukraine China says to take 'necessary measures' after fresh US sanctions		Satellite images appear to show Vietnam dredging on disputed reefl Vietnam has started dredging work on a reef in the South China Sea, fresh satellite images appear to show, a move that could provoke Beijing which claims most of the disputed waterway. ... more
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Adventurous alum serves as test subject for 30-day NASA isolation project With research expeditions to Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland and Mount Everest already under her belt, alumni Ulyana Horodyskyj was no stranger to harsh and isolated environments. But for a moment on ... more		Landsat provides global view of speed of ice Glaciers and ice sheets move in unique and sometimes surprising patterns, as evidenced by a new capability that uses satellite images to map the speed of flowing ice in Greenland, Antarctica and mou ... more		High-tech glass plates to be used to discover the birth of new black holes The University of Leicester is providing a new type of X-ray mirror to the French space agency, CNES, for the Chinese-French satellite 'SVOM' which is designed to discover and study Gamma-Ray Bursts ... more		Verlindes new theory of gravity passes first test A team led by astronomer Margot Brouwer (Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands) has tested the new theory of theoretical physicist Erik Verlinde (University of Amsterdam) for the first time through th ... more

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