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NASA Funds New Laser Communications
NASA works with industry giants, private industry partners, and small businesses under Artemis (a mission back to…
We’re Closer to Sustaining Life on Mars
University of Sussex researchers discovered the transformative potential of Martian nanomaterials, possibly opening…
Weld Metal Foam Without Melting its Bubbles
North Carolina State University researchers have identified a welding technique to join composite metal foam (CMF)…
AI Could Solve the Oxygen-on-Mars Problem Within Six Weeks
According to a new study published in Nature Synthesis, a robot chemist powered by AI could solve the challenge of…
GIANT Optical Navigation Technology for Future Space Missions
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s optical navigation team, as backup to the OSIRIS-REx mission to near-Earth…
NASA Launching Deep Space Optical Communications
Launching Oct. 13 with the Psyche mission, NASA’s pioneering Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) will be the…
Solving the Issue of Reflected Waves at D Band
Looking to deliver reliable test, measurement, and prototyping equipment for D band led NI to THz-enabled isolators…
NASA’s Swift Finds a Snacking Black Hole
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory scientists observed a black hole in a distant galaxy repeatedly munching on a…
MIT Engineers Use Kirigami to Make Ultrastrong, Lightweight Structures
Strong metal lattices are lighter than cork and have customizable mechanical properties. MIT researchers used…
The Ancient Technology that Keeps Space Missions Alive
Many space missions re-use technologies. For example, Voyager probes have been around longer than most of my…