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The Heat Is On: How New Horizons Got Its Power

October 08, 2015
Feature by feature, they revealed themselves: the plains of Sputnik, the Norgay Montes and the vast and forbidding Cthulu Regio.
When the New Horizons spacecraft finally buzzed Pluto at roughly 30,000 mph last summer, it sent back snaps of an untamed land of craterless plains and jagged ice mountains beyond our imagining. And those pictures of the dwarf planet traveled the expanse of space thanks to a 125-pound power plant that doesn’t know the meaning of quit.

It’s called the RTG, or Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator.
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3D Printing the Soul and Other Ideas From the Final Frontier — Q&A with Adam Steltzner of NASA

Adam Steltzner Fellow At The Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory
October 02, 2015

The Industrial Internet faces perhaps it’s biggest challenge in space — though also some of the greatest opportunities for breakthroughs in machine-to-machine communication and Big Data analytics.

The explosion of data being emitted from everything from hospital monitors to deep-sea oil wells to jet engines is demanding increasingly robust Big Data analytical tools. But perhaps the greatest test for collecting and analyzing data is at the “final frontier,” with the challenges of beaming back information and images from space expeditions.
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Hold on to Your Seats: NASA Breathes New Life Into Commercial Supersonic Flight

June 22, 2015
The team studying lightning on top of the Empire State Building used an early high-speed camera developed by Sir Charles Boys to photograph strikes. Below: A description of the work. Image credits: Museum of Innovation and Science Schenectady
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Just Like Dimples on Golf Balls, Reshaping Aircraft in Flight Could Make Planes Fly Better

April 01, 2015
In the not-too-distant future, airplanes will scythe into the wind with an airframe that can virtually streamline its shape using nothing but air. In pursuit of this goal, researchers at NASA and Boeing moved a vertical tail from an old 757 inside the world’s largest wind tunnel at NASA Ames Research Center in California to test technology called active flow control. Active flow uses tiny air jets to reduce friction and turbulence across flight surfaces.
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Chris Fox: 3D Printing to Get to Mars

Chris Fox Manufacturing Net
December 18, 2014
On a recent trip to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, the aerospace organization provided some insight to the inner-workings of spacecraft manufacturing. At the Marshall Space Flight Center, they specialize in what can best be described as, the guts of a rocket.
 
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Industrial Internet Helps the Trains Run on Time

August 25, 2014
The morning commute is primed for innovative disruption, whether you’re spending hours sitting in traffic jams to stuck inside a jam-packed subway car. SkyTran, an elevated transit system that’s being developed in partnership with NASA, aims to make commuting hassles a thing of the past by zipping passengers around in futuristic-looking driverless pods suspended high above the ground.
 
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FDA Drilling Down on Promise and Problems of 3D Printing

June 02, 2014
For all the promise that 3D printing holds for manufacturing, the technology is fraught with uncertainty when it comes to the medical field. Looking to quell some of that concern the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will hold a two-day workshop to discuss the future of regulating 3D printed devices and procedures.
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