In this episode, we talk about how a method leveraging ground data and satellite imagery can help prevent wetland losses.
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The student winners of the High-Temperature Carbon-Fiber 3D printing challenge have ambitions to build better rovers.
In this episode, we talk about the moonshot plan to beam energy harnessed from the sun in space to anywhere on planet earth.
The origin of Mars’ two moons, Phobos and Deimos, is still unclear. To unravel this mystery, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission is scheduled to launch in 2024.
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New research uses NASA satellite observations and advanced computing to chronicle wetlands lost (and found) around the globe.
Springs, squeegees and soda straws function with a common property — they are rigid in one direction and flexible in another. Structures like these, with properties that vary across dimensions, have played critical roles in human technology from the longbow to the booster rocket.
In this episode, we talk about NASA plans to crash land payloads on Mars to advance our understanding of the red planet.
Like a car’s crumple zone, the experimental SHIELD lander is designed to absorb a hard impact.
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End-to-end recycling solutions deliver the benefits of carbon fiber composites with a more circular approach.
Technologies have played a vital role to provide practical solutions to expensive and risky space projects. With the advent of more precise instruments and techniques, observations in more distant space regions are being enabled which could hold the key to understanding the origins of the universe.
In this episode, we follow up on MIT + JPL’s experiment to make oxygen on Mars - MOXIE - that we first discussed in episode 5.
How an online manufacturer supplied over 50 components for the LUVMI lunar rover, a project of the Space Applications Services that specializes in space technology.
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The ZEUS laser at the University of Michigan has begun its commissioning experiments
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When you ask people to name a few cutting-edge technologies, they’ll probably mention artificial intelligence, quantum computing, autonomous vehicles, perhaps synthetic biology… but probably not welding.
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The docuseries that is exposing the incredible innovations which new space companies are developing.
