TECH SPACE - ROBO DAILY

NASA researcher finding ways to turn down the heat in cities

Mar 29, 2022 (SPX)

Heat is often intensified or amplified in cities, a phenomenon known as the urban heat island effect. Asphalt, concrete, and similar materials absorb and retain...

Surface simulation lab launches new chapter in Australian space research

Mar 29, 2022 (SPX)

The Extraterrestrial Environmental Simulation (Exterres) Laboratory, located on North Terrace campus, provides a crucial stepping stone in developing technology...

US sending radar-jamming planes to Germany to bolster NATO: Pentagon

Mar 28, 2022 (AFP)

The EA-18G Growler aircraft are "not being deployed to be used against Russian forces in Ukraine," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said. "They are being deployed ...

DARPA kicks off program to explore space-based manufacturing

Mar 25, 2022 (SPX)

The NOM4D program does not involve building any structures on the surface of the moon. All manufacturing would be done in orbital construction facilities and th...

Mini robots practise grasping space debris

Mar 23, 2022 (SPX)

"The two robots on the ISS will simulate an orbital scenario," says Roberto Lampariello from the DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics in Oberpfaffenhofen....

Five killed in volatile, mineral-rich northeast Uganda

Mar 23, 2022 (AFP)

They came under attack on Monday during a mineral mapping exercise in Karamoja, an impoverished and volatile region in the country's northeast, said army comman...

Sweden gives go-ahead for controversial mining project

Mar 22, 2022 (AFP)

Jokkmokk Iron Mines, a British-owned company that filed an application for the Kallak mine in 2013, is eyeing Sweden's largest-known cache of untapped quartz-ba...

Algerian, Chinese firms announce phosphate mega-deal

Mar 22, 2022 (AFP)

Under the new deal, Algeria's Asmidal, a subsidiary of state oil firm Sonatrach, and mining firm Manal agreed with Chinese firms Wuhuan Engineering and Tian'An ...

DARPA gives new life to old concrete structures through vascularization

Mar 18, 2022 (SPX)

Missile silos and naval piers, for example, are often many decades old and not easily replaced, and the DoD relies on concrete airfield pavements that are subje...

Beyond Gravity boosts its capacity for satellite dispenser systems in Linkoping and creates 60 new jobs with new production facility

Mar 17, 2022 (SPX)

Beyond Gravity is the world's leading manufacturer for dispensers used for satellite constellations where multiple satellites of the same design are launched in...

Spire Global signs deal with NorthStar Earth and Space for a dedicated constellation

Mar 17, 2022 (SPX)

With this dedicated constellation, NorthStar will be able to monitor space from space, delivering timely and precise orbit determination, collision avoidance, n...

Unlimited 3D printing for space

Mar 17, 2022 (ESA)

What is also known as 'Additive manufacturing' is an essential enabling technology for deep space crewed missions. Built to operate in weightlessness - meaning ...

New toolkit aids discovery of mineral deposits crucial to 'green economy' transition

Mar 17, 2022 (SPX)

A study led by Lawrence Carter from the University of Exeter's Camborne School of Mines, has given fascinating new insights into how to discover porphyry-type c...

NASA adds giant new dish to communicate with deep space missions

Mar 17, 2022 (JPL)

Called Deep Space Station 53, or DSS-53, the 111-foot (34-meter) antenna is part of NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN). It's now operational at the network's facil...

Scientists, undergraduates team up to protect astronauts from radiation

Mar 15, 2022 (SPX)

Their story is an epic tale of twirling streams of gas larger than humans can really imagine. But, like most astronomical phenomena, the Magellanic Clouds are f...

Amid NFT boom, artists worry about climate costs

Mar 14, 2022 (AFP)

But when the South African started thinking about selling his work as crypto-art on a blockchain, he hesitated. "I'm not fully for it because of the energy cons...

Tiny switches give solid-state LiDAR record resolution

Mar 10, 2022 (SPX)

Since a then, inexpensive, chip-based cameras and radar systems have moved into the mainstream for collision avoidance and autonomous highway driving. Yet, LiDA...

The untapped nitrogen reservoir

Mar 10, 2022 (SPX)

No growth without nitrogen Nitrogen is an important component of all living organisms, and no growth is possible without nitrogen uptake. Although almost 80 per...

Chile: Copper, quakes and inequality

Mar 09, 2022 (AFP)

But Chile looks set to embark on a new path of greater social equality as leftist Gabriel Boric takes over the presidency on Friday with the country at a crossr...

Why people rush for iodine tablets over nuclear, cancer risk

Mar 08, 2022 (AFP)

France said it would send 2.5 million doses of the chemical compound to Ukraine after Russian forces there seized the defunct Chernobyl nuclear site and damaged...