Space Review – Today, no true air-breathing spaceplanes or reusable boosters yet exist, but there is now renewed interest in air-breathing technology. At the same time, remarkable launch cost reductions in more conventional boosters are imminent due to the efforts of SpaceX and other firms. There is now steady progress in actual testing of hypersonic …
Long-term memory: Each cell in this 200,000-cell phase-change memory chip can store multiple bits of data reliably over a period of several months. Credit: IBM MIT Technology Review – IBM encoding phase-change memory for greater reliability IBM researchers have developed a programming trick that makes it possible to more reliably store large amounts of data …
Solar Electric Propulsion : Evolving Capability Supporting Multiple Users & Missions” Tom Kessler , Boeing at the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) Working Group (8 page presentation) Solar electric propulsion in the megawatt class is better than capabilities that we have now. There are other capabilities like electric solar sails and nuclear fusion for space propulsion …
The Indonesian economy will produce a nominal GDP of Rp 7,400 trillion ($870 billion if the exchange rate leads to an average of Rp 8,500 against the US dollar) in 2011. This is roughly an increase of 15 percent from 2010. If by year end the rupiah is around Rp 8,000 per US dollar, then …
A scanning electron microscopy image of the master and slave lasers integrated onto a silicon substrate to form a miniature tunable laser. © 2010 IOP Singapore A*Star researchers are mastering bandwidth by developing tunable, low-cost laser device Transmitting information as pulses of light through fiber-optic cables is the fastest and highest-bandwidth communications technology that exists …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Scanning tunneling microscope topograph of nitride patches (blue) on a copper substrate (green) that serve as nano-workbenches for the assembly of atomic-scale prototype structures from magnetic atoms (green bumps). Journal Science – Measurement of Fast Electron Spin Relaxation Times with Atomic Resolution Single spins in solid-state …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Atomic force micrograph of a one-atom thick sheet of graphene trapping water on a mica surface. The ice crystals (lightest blue) are the height of a two-water-molecule thick ice crystal. This first layer of water is ice, even at room temperature. At high humidity levels, a …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The UK Telegraph has written an article in support of new Thorium nuclear reactors based on the work of Nobel laureate Carlo Rubbia, CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research). A detailed study estimated that the Rubbia thorium energy amplifier (subcritical reactor) would be twice as cheap …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software 1. DARPA has the iFAB program to develop “foundry-style manufacturing capability.” By which they mean microchip foundries – the generic, build-any-chip-for-any-designer factories that churn out microchips for every application you can imagine, and which are the dominant mode of manufacture for most of the silicon in …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Erika DeBenedictis is a high school student who wrote a prototype software system that would allow a spacecraft to autonomously calculate and fly low-energy orbits. Erika is one of ten winners of the Intel Science contest who were at the Techonomy conference. The Interplanetary Superhighway is …
Ads : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News   Computer Software 1. China’s Energy Administration (Regulates China’s nuclear and other energy industries) is moving to allow more power companies are able to build and operate nuclear power plants. Soon independent power producers like Huaneng Power International Inc. (HNP) and Datang International Power Generation Co. (0991.HK), could join the ranks of …