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NASA Assembles Five-Segment Motor For Development TestingPromontory UT (SPX) May 10, 2010 Technicians at ATK Space System's test stand in Promontory, Utah, gently guided a segment of NASA's five-segment development motor, or DM-2, into place in preparation for the second full-duration ground test, also called a "cold motor" test, targeted for September 2010. The motor's overall temperature will be lowered to 40 degrees Fahrenheit to validate the motor's performance in cold weather. Although similar to the solid rocket boosters that help power the space shuttle to orbit, the Ares I firs ... read more |
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Lisbon (AFP) May 9, 2010Hundreds of flights at airports from Lisbon to Munich were cancelled Sunday and some European airspace was closed because of a volcanic ash cloud from Iceland that caused air travel chaos last month. All flights to the city of Porto in northern Portugal and the Azores were suspended, with normal operations expected to resume by 0600 GMT Monday, airport officials there said. In all more t ... more  
Bonn, Germany (SPX) May 10, 2010The hairs on the surface of water ferns could allow ships to have a 10 per cent decrease in fuel consumption. The plant has the rare ability to put on a gauzy skirt of air under water. Researchers at the University of Bonn, Rostock and Karlsruhe now show in the journal Advanced Materials how the fern does this. Their results can possibly be used for the construction of new kinds of hulls w ... more  
Richmond, Virginia (SPX) May 10, 2010Engineered artificial proteins that mimic the elastic properties of muscles in living organisms are the subject of an article in Nature magazine. "Our goal is to use these biomaterials in tissue engineering as a type of scaffold for muscle regeneration," said co-author Dan Dudek, an assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics (ESM) at Virginia Tech. http://www.esm.vt.edu/perso ... more |
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NASA succesfully tests Orion abort systemWashington (AFP) May 6, 2010 The US space agency NASA successfully tested an emergency abort system for the space shuttle's successor, Orion, Thursday at a remote test site in the New Mexico desert. The emergency system used powerful rocket motors to blast the crew module off the launch site, shooting it 1.2 miles (1.9 kilometers) into the air in six seconds at high rates of speed, then wafting it back to Earth on a parachute. "This system is much more advanced in capability and technology than any abort system designed in ... read more |
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