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- Boeing's new hypersonic plane could circle the globe in 3 hours Tue, 6 Feb 18, 5:36amBoeing has developed a hypersonic plane that is faster than a speeding bullet. So fast, in fact, that it could circle the globe in just three hours, according to the manufacturer. The plane is designed to use its own shockwaves...
- Lockheed to turn shuttle-era module into a space habitat for NASA Tue, 25 Jul 17, 12:50amDeep space missions in the future will take humanity farther and farther away from Earth. Last year NASA chose six United States companies to develop deep space habitat prototypes as part of the Next Space Technologies for...
- NASA unveils 6 prototypical deep space human habitats for Mars and beyond Thu, 11 Aug 16, 12:54amEach habitat prototype is backed by a different private U.S. company. The six companies are Bigelow Aerospace of Las Vegas, Boeing of Pasadena, Texas, Lockheed Martin of Denver, Orbital ATK of Dulles, Virginia, Sierra Nevada...
- New atom-thick desalination filter slashes energy use by 20 percent Tue, 12 Apr 16, 11:56pmThe process of removing salt water and particulate matter from ocean water to make it potable—desalinization—can be tricky, time consuming, require a lot of fancy equipment, and use more energy than most water-deprived...
- NASA inks first contract for the supersonic passenger jet of our dreams Wed, 2 Mar 16, 3:05amNearly 70 years ago, pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 rocket plane (now on display at the Smithsonian). Now, NASA has announced they will build on that historic flight with a contract to design a...
- Lockheed Martin Announces a Major Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion Thu, 16 Oct 14, 9:00pmIt sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, with secret laboratories and futuristic technologies, but this movie is real. Lockheed Martin’s stealthy Skunk Works division recently revealed that is has created...
- New Kinetic Boots Could Help Marines Shed Battery Weight Mon, 14 Jul 14, 3:00amMilitary personnel do a lot of marching. And hiking. And running. They move a lot, whether on base or on a mission. While moving, Marines also carry up to 15 pounds of batteries in order to charge all their devices while...
- Wave of New UFO-Like Eco Airships Usher in Low-Carbon Future for Air Travel Fri, 6 May 11, 10:33pmA new generation of high-tech, safe, and eco-friendly airships aim to not only go where roads currently can’t in northern Canada, western China, and Africa, but also to replace the complicated, carbon-heavy infrastructure...
- Old Military Planes Repurposed to Drop 900,000 Tree Bombs a Day Thu, 21 Oct 10, 2:18amSeed bombing is about to jump to a whole new level of awesomeness. A fleet of unused and decommissioned C-130 Hercules cargo planes, originally created to drop land mines, will be recommissioned as foresters. Lockheed Martin...