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Solar Powered Airplane Makes First Intercontinental Round-trip Flight
Caption: The Solar Impulse airplane in flight during on July 24, 2012. Credit: Solar Impulse/ Jean Revillard A unique airplane…
Hypersonic Inflatable Heat Shield Tested Successfully
Caption: IRVE-3 was launched by a sounding rocket at 7:01 a.m. Mon., July 23, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. Credit:…
Designing Future Space Habitats
[/caption] Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Andy Tomaswick, an electrical engineer who follows space science and technology.…
The Antikythera Time Machine
[/caption] Leonardo da Vinci may have left behind sketches of helicopters, tanks and submarines but it is rare that we…
A Twisting Tale of Space Solar Power
[/caption] The dream of clean, consistent and renewable space solar power may become a reality, thanks to new research being…
How Plasma Technology From Space Will Save Our Lives
[/caption] It might sound obvious to anyone who's ever played a video game in the past thirty years, but plasma…
An Anti-Gravity User Interface
Researcher Jinha Lee at MIT has developed a remarkable way to interact with computers -- via a programmable, intelligent and…
Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise in 20 Years
[/caption] In Star Trek lore, the first Constitution Class Starship Enterprise will be built by the year 2245. But today,…
Deep Space Atomic Clock Mission Will Improve Navigation Technology
[/caption] Precise radio navigation -- using radio frequencies to determine position -- is vital to the success of all deep-space…
Hailing Frequencies Open? Communication Via Neutrinos Tested Successfully
[/caption] In science fiction – like in Star Trek, for example -- interstellar communication was never a problem; all you…