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Lightweight Artificial Hair Sensors Could Enable “Fly by Feel”
The Air Force Research Laboratory was inspired by the hairs on bats and crickets in creation of artificial hair sensors that could assess the external environment and change...
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NASA Tests Prepare Space Launch System for Liftoff
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) may experience ground wind gusts of up to 70 mph as it sits on the launch pad before and during liftoff for future missions. Understanding how...
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Mobile High-Energy Laser Shoots Down Drones
A Stryker combat vehicle equipped with a 5kW laser and an array of sensors spent several minutes scanning the horizon for a wayward "enemy" drone. On a television screen in a nearby tent off...
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Drop of Mock Nuclear Weapon Is First of New Flight Tests
From a distance, the drop of a mock nuclear weapon — containing only non-nuclear components — was a mere puff of dust rising from a dry lake bed at Nevada’s Tonopah Test Range....
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AMRDEC Technologies to Improve Air and Missile Defense
Engineers at the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) are working on a trio of technologies to explore improving existing air and missile...
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In-Flight, On-Demand Hydrogen Production for Greener Aircraft
The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology developed a process that can be used onboard aircraft while in flight to produce hydrogen from water (including wastewater on the plane)...
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New System Assists X-Planes with Super-Fast Data Transmission
A network and communication architecture that can more efficiently move data from research aircraft, while using half the bandwidth of traditional methods, could eventually also...
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NASA Tests Robotic Ice Tools
Since 2015, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has been developing new technologies for use on future missions to ocean worlds. That includes a subsurface probe that could burrow through...
INSIDER Defense
New Robotic System Finds and Destroys Explosive Threats
In combat, land mine and improvised explosive device (IED) clearance is a slow, painstaking, stressful job that physically and mentally drains soldiers and military working dogs....
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Swarms of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles Test New Dogfighting Skills
Aerial dogfighting began more than a century ago in the skies over Europe with propeller-driven fighter aircraft carried aloft on wings of fabric and wood. An event held...
INSIDER Sensors/Data Acquisition
Heated Concrete Could Pave the Way for Ice-Free Runways
Iowa State University tested slabs of electrically conductive concrete at Des Moines International Airport. The test slabs are made up of 1 percent carbon fiber and a special mix of...
INSIDER Test & Measurement
NASA Puts Dummies to the Test for Airplane Safety
Ten crash test dummies buckled into seats in a cut-out section of a regional jet fuselage will soon help NASA and the FAA develop new crashworthiness guidelines for future airplane designs....
INSIDER Defense
Sandia Labs Takes Modern Approach to Evaluating Nuclear Weapons
Sandia National Laboratories is transforming how it assesses nuclear weapons in a stockpile made up of weapons at different stages in their lifecycles — some systems that have...
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Next-Generation Fire Support Systems Boost Lethality
Soldiers view live-stream full-motion video from unmanned aerial vehicles via a smartphone. They access 3-D digital maps to send precision target coordinates. Soldiers are now relying on...
INSIDER Materials
Navy Chemists Develop Field-Repairable Transparent Armor
Research chemists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have developed and patented a transparent thermoplastic elastomer armor to reduce weight, inherent in most bullet-resistant...
INSIDER Aerospace
Morphing Wings Make Jets More Efficient
University of Michigan engineers have developed improved wing designs capable of burning less fuel, as well as tools that help the aerospace industry build more efficient aircraft. In areas where new...
INSIDER Aerospace
NASA Tests Engines That Reduce Drag and Fuel Burn
Boundary Layer Ingestion (BLI) is a promising idea NASA researchers are studying to reduce fuel burn in jet engines, thus reducing emissions and the cost of operating the aircraft. Thrust makes...
INSIDER Manufacturing & Prototyping
Technique Enables 3D Printing of Aerospace-Grade Carbon Fiber Composites
Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have become the first to 3D print aerospace-grade carbon fiber composites, representing a significant advance in...
INSIDER Aerospace
NASA Test Flights Will Study Improved Efficiency of Supersonic Aircraft
NASA is set to begin a series of supersonic flights that will examine efforts to improve the efficiency of future supersonic aircraft. Future supersonic aircraft seeking to...
INSIDER Software
Language Learning Robot Could Advance Autonomous Vehicles
A Purdue University researcher and his team are developing technology to give robots the ability to learn language. A team led by Jeffrey Mark Siskind, associate professor in Purdue’s...
INSIDER Materials
Researchers Study Ceramic Material as Possible Lightweight Vehicle Armor
The U.S. Army Research Lab (ARL) and Australian Defence Science and Technology Group are collaborating to study ceramic materials for potential use in the design of...
INSIDER Defense
US, Japan Conduct First SM-3 Block IIA Intercept Test
Engineers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, in cooperation with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the Japan Ministry of Defense,...
INSIDER Aerospace
Next-Generation Batteries Could Power Microsatellites
NASA's Kennedy Space Center and the University of Miami are developing a new solid-state battery prototype that could revolutionize the way NASA operates microsatellites such as...
INSIDER Materials
Polymer Material Decreases Mass of Aircraft
Lomonosov Moscow State University engineers created unique polymer matrices for polymer composites based on novel phthalonitrile monomers. The materials can sufficiently decrease the mass of...
INSIDER Test & Measurement
New Lab Helps Boeing Detect Aircraft Flaws
Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology and The Boeing Company established a new nondestructive evaluation (NDE) laboratory that uses millimeter-wave technology to improve the...
INSIDER Aerospace
Fluctuating Forces of Flight Captured by High-Tech Paint
A rocket is buffeted by a chaotic flow of air during flight. At high speeds, airplanes experience a similar, unsteady flow of air over their wings. A method to precisely measure these...
INSIDER Aerospace
Discovery Could Lead to Cleaner, More Efficient Jet Engines
Researchers at The Ohio State University found a way to improve the high-temperature properties of superalloys used in jet engines. The method tailors an alloy’s composition and...
INSIDER Defense
US Navy Synthesizes Slime to Assist Military Personnel
A team of U.S. Navy scientists and engineers at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) have successfully re-created a natural material used for marine wildlife...
INSIDER Electronics & Computers
NRL Develops Novel Monolayer Ferroelectric Hybrid Structures
Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Materials Science and Technology Division, have demonstrated that the intensity and spectral composition of the...
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