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But what if the most powerful propulsion system in NASA’s toolbox produces less than one pound of thrust while reaching speeds of up to 200,000 mph? What if it costs less, carries more, and uses less fuel? ![]() A solar electric propulsion Hall Effect thruster being tested under vacuum conditions at NASA. (NASA) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA’s Scalable Traffic Management for Emergency Response Operations project
Responding to an emergency like this – or a hurricane or search and rescue effort, to name a few – requires extensive collaboration among a host of groups that, right now, is coordinated manually under challenging conditions. This makes communication difficult. ![]() Illustration of an Unmanned Aircraft System, or drone, in front of a smoke-filled sky. A goal of the Scalable Traffic Management for Emergency Response Operations project, or STEReO, is to make emergency response efforts more targeted and adaptable, for instance by integrating drones into wildfire fighting. (NASA / Ames Research Center / Daniel Rutter) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA says Rocket Engines may soon be produced by 3D Printing
NASA’s Rapid Analysis and Manufacturing Propulsion Technology project, or RAMPT, is advancing development of an additive manufacturing technique to 3D print rocket engine parts using metal powder and lasers. ![]() Blown powder directed energy deposition can produce large structures – such as these engine nozzles – cheaper and quicker than traditional fabrication techniques. (NASA) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
President Donald Trump announces actions to Restore Safety, Peace in United States cities
This afternoon, President Donald Trump announced the expansion of Operation Legend, an interagency law enforcement effort led by the U.S. Department of Justice and named after LeGend. Its purpose is to quell the unacceptable levels of recent violence in United States cities. «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Politics | No Comments
NASA teams with University Hospitals to combat COVID-19
A team of researchers recently developed and tested two new approaches that could enable health care professionals to sanitize face masks on-site and safely reuse them. These approaches also may be useful to the aerospace community when traditional sterilization techniques might not be available. ![]() NASA teams with University Hospitals to create new ways to decontaminating personal protective equipment (PPE). (University Hospitals) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA’s OSCAR Project looks to convert Space Waste into useful Resources
As NASA prepares to return astronauts to the Moon and then venture to Mars, a lot of planning goes into how to keep crews safe and healthy and enable them to do as much science as possible. One of the challenges is how to handle trash. The Orbital Syngas/Commodity Augmentation Reactor (OSCAR) project, is an avenue to evolve new and innovative technology for dealing with garbage in space. «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA develops Shape Memory Tire for future Mars, Moon Missions
One of those technologies is an innovative new tire in development at NASA’s Glenn Research Center using innovative shape memory alloys (SMA). ![]() The new shape memory alloy rover tire developed for the harsh Martian landscape is tested at NASA Glenn’s Simulated Lunar Operations Laboratory. (NASA) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA uses SHIIVER tank to test keeping liquid fuel cool
But as the extreme environment of space warms a spacecraft, the fuels begin to evaporate or “boiloff.” “As energy from the Sun, Earth, and even the Moon enters the cryogenic propellant tanks, the liquid has to absorb that energy, which causes it to boiloff,” explains Wesley Johnson, cryogenic fluid management technical lead at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. ![]() SHIIVER is 13-foot diameter test tank built by NASA to evaluate technologies aimed at reducing the evaporation or “boiloff” losses in large cryogenic storage tanks for human exploration missions. (NASA) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
NASA tests New Moon Rover in Lunar Operations Lab
About the size of a golf cart, VIPER is a mobile robot that will roam around the Moon’s South Pole looking for water ice in the region and for the first time ever, actually sample the water ice at the same pole where the first woman and next man will land in 2024 under the Artemis program. ![]() NASA model of the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover. (NASA / Bridget Caswell, Alcyon Technical Services) «Read the rest of this article» Sections: Technology | No Comments
Austin Peay State University Football’s Jack McDonald named to FCS ADA Academic All-Star squad
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