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Blog: Aerospace
Prof. Jake J. Abbott is leading a team that has discovered a way to manipulate orbiting debris with spinning magnets.
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Articles: Materials
Thanos Yiagopoulos, Chief Technology Officer of Momentive Performance Materials, discusses how engineers can determine the best product for their application.
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UpFront: Aerospace
How to be a NASA intern; a new ideas for moon fabrics; and NASA's need for a better rover.
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Articles: Materials
Nanotube fibers that turn heat to power; a NASA antenna system; and an antimicrobial coating.
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Briefs: RF & Microwave Electronics
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed an optical amplifier that they expect will revolutionize both space and fiber communication.
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Articles: Aerospace
Artemis I will launch from Kennedy Space Center into Earth orbit, where it will travel 40,000 miles beyond the Moon.
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Articles: Propulsion
A vision-based control algorithm saves a quadrotor after the complete loss of a single motor.
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Briefs: Energy
Applications include space structures, emergency shelters, backpack solar collectors, and inspection of hazardous environments.
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Articles: Aerospace
With Artemis II — the first crewed flight of SLS and Orion — four astronauts will travel to the lunar environment in 2024.
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Articles: Electronics & Computers
See this year's product designs from engineers, students, and entrepreneurs worldwide.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The third flight of SLS and Orion will carry the first woman and first person of color to the Moon.
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NASA Spinoff: Electronics & Computers
A long-time apparel insulator develops its own takes on popular NASA spinoff material.
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Articles: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
With the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, NASA will return humans to the lunar surface.
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Briefs: Materials
The material could be used to create housing in outer space.
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Blog: Propulsion
A NASA expert answers your questions about the upcoming Artemis mission that will send astronauts back to the Moon.
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Special Reports: Aerospace
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Space Technology - October 2021
A new era of space exploration is set to begin with Artemis 1, the first in a series of increasingly complex NASA missions that will take humans back to the moon and then on to Mars. Read all about it in this...

Briefs: Aerospace
The camera was designed for use in space and other extreme environments.
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Briefs: Aerospace
The instrument identifies, quantifies, and characterizes contamination, even on irregularly shaped surfaces.
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Articles: Energy
Metamaterial printing, high-efficiency solar cells, and a noise-reduction material.
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Briefs: Aerospace
Growing large-area graphene on optical substrates enables use in photonics devices.
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NASA Spinoff: Materials
A bulk metallic glass could slash prices of collaborative robots and lead to advanced 3D-printed metals.
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UpFront: Energy
NASA reveals winners of a CO2 conversion challenge.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
New Variables for Iterative Transform Phase Retrieval
This approach provides a more general framework for performing Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) calculations.
Briefs: Weapons Systems
Applications include planetary exploration and imaging systems used in surveillance, navigation, and target recognition.
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Briefs: Software
This evaluation tool for low-altitude air traffic operations can be used by the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) industry.
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Facility Focus: Unmanned Systems
Today, Carnegie Mellon’s College of Engineering performs research in robotics, cyberphysical systems, artificial intelligence, biomedicine, energy, and other topics.
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Application Briefs: Aerospace
As the U.S. lands a craft on the Moon for the first time since 1972, technology built by Louisiana State University students will report back from the lunar surface.
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Briefs: Photonics/Optics
Applications include telecommunications, optical switching, and quantum computing.
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Briefs: Test & Measurement
The compact instrument measures thermal conductivity of materials at below ambient temperatures.
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