TECH SPACE - ROBO DAILY

Device to detect orbital particles mounted outside China's space station

Jan 12, 2023 (XNA)

The energy particle detector in Wentian lab has been transported via the cargo airlock cabin, assisted by a robotic arm. The detector used a new material called...

Spaceflight Inc. and Maritime Launch agree to future Sherpa OTV missions

Jan 11, 2023 (SPX)

Spaceflight has successfully delivered more than 550 spacecraft across 55 launches, including both rideshare and dedicated launches, on a wide variety of launch...

Ovzon selects Dispersive to enhance satellite communications security

Jan 11, 2023 (SPX)

Under the terms of the agreement, Dispersive is deploying its DispersiveCloud solution to provide Ovzon greater overall security in managing its global satellit...

Space junk, not meteorites, remains biggest threat to spacecraft

Jan 11, 2023 (AFP)

Russian announced on Wednesday a February mission to the International Space Station to pick up crew members left stranded after a strike damaged the capsule th...

Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable?

Jan 09, 2023 (SPX)

Researchers have spent decades trying to figure out the secret of this ultradurable ancient construction material, particularly in structures that endured espec...

Stop and smell the metaverse roses: Virtual world on display at CES

Jan 08, 2023 (AFP)

Some entrepreneurs at the annual CES gadget fest that ends Sunday in Las Vegas were eager to combine real and virtual worlds to help people stop and smell the r...

From bees to bullets, CES tech show gives gamers the feels

Jan 08, 2023 (AFP)

At the CES tech show, the video game industry is showing off just how lifelike gaming can be made with new vests, head cushions and other simulation products. "...

Voyager Space and Airbus announce partnership for Starlab Space Station

Jan 06, 2023 (SPX)

Airbus Defence and Space will provide technical design support and expertise for the Starlab space station which will serve as an on-orbit laboratory for astron...

Retired NASA satellite expected to fall to Earth on Sunday

Jan 06, 2023 (UPI)

The U.S. Defense Department has predicted that the 5,400-pound Earth Radiation Budget Satellite will reenter the atmosphere sometime within a 17-hour window of ...

High-performance visible-light lasers that fit on a fingertip

Jan 05, 2023 (SPX)

Despite its success, integrated photonics has been missing a key component to achieve complete miniaturization: high-performance chip-scale lasers. While some p...

Ditching concrete for earth to build a cleaner future

Jan 04, 2023 (AFP)

Climate change has spurred renewed interest in the ancient technique which sees polluting concrete swapped where possible for earth. For centuries, mud and clay...

Waste not want not: Santiago's poorest district plants recycling seed

Jan 03, 2023 (AFP)

For nearly two decades, the residents of La Pintana have been pioneers of recycling in Chile -- South America's largest garbage generator. Under a project start...

Momentus launches Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle on Transporter-6 Mission

Jan 03, 2023 (SPX)

The Vigoride OSV is designed to support a range of transportation and in-space infrastructure services. A key part of the Vigoride spacecraft is the Microwave E...

D-Orbit Launches two ION Satellite Carrier on its seventh orbital transportation mission

Jan 03, 2023 (SPX)

The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off today, January 3rd, 2023, at 9:56 a.m. ET (14:56 UTC) from the Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Sta...

NASA and HAARP conclude asteroid experiment

Jan 01, 2023 (SPX)

The asteroid, 2010 XC15, is estimated to be about 500 feet across and is passing by Earth at two lunar distances, which is twice the distance between the Earth ...

China approves first foreign video games since crackdown

Dec 28, 2022 (AFP)

Beijing moved against the country's vibrant gaming sector last August as part of a sprawling crackdown on big tech companies, including a cap on the amount of t...

Space junk bill passes Senate unanimously

Dec 27, 2022 (SPX)

"From satellite communications to rockets carrying humans into deep space, space debris is a massive threat to space operations," said Hickenlooper, chair of th...

Elucidating the mechanism of high proton conduction to develop clean energy materials

Dec 22, 2022 (SPX)

However, conventional ceramic proton conductors face one problem-in order to exhibit adequate proton conductivity, they need to have oxygen vacancies that enabl...

Making the unimaginable possible in materials discovery

Dec 22, 2022 (SPX)

Chemists work in a similar way when inventing new compounds. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, Northwestern Univ...

NASA enables future of science observation through tri-band antennas

Dec 20, 2022 (SPX)

Now, the network has integrated four new global antennas to further support science and exploration missions. In December 2022, antennas in Fairbanks, Alaska; W...