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Propulsion and communications aerospace research contracts awarded by NASA - News
July 29, 2015
CLEVELAND. NASA chose 13 aerospace companies to deliver advanced propulsion and communications system technologies under ongoing long-term aerospace research activities at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.
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Alien ocean submarines, asteroid satellite swarms among concepts receiving NASA research funding - News
July 06, 2015
WASHINGTON. NASA officials chose seven technology proposals to move forward under Phase II of the agency's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. The choices were based on the potential of each to transform future aerospace missions, present new capabilities, or substantially improve today's methods for building and operating aerospace systems.
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Open systems architecture flown on NASA Global Hawk unmanned aircraft - News
June 18, 2015
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. A NASA Global Hawk unmanned aircraft flew with a new Open Mission Systems (OMS) architecture implemented by Northrop Grumman engineers to enable the ability to quickly and cost-effectively adapt new capabilities onto unmanned aircraft systems (UASs).
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Eight supersonic research projects awarded by NASA - News
June 10, 2015
WASHINGTON. NASA officials awarded eight research studies with more than $2.3 million in funding on overcoming the barriers to supersonic travel under NASA’s Commercial Supersonic Technology Project.
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Cockpit display showing sonic boom over land to be developed by NASA and Rockwell Collins - News
May 15, 2015
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa. NASA officials tasked engineers at Rockwell Collins to develop a conceptual cockpit display that will enable a visual representation of sonic boom over the Earth’s surface to reduce the impact on populated areas. Under the two-year contract NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center will lead the research, working with experts at Rockwell Collins’ Advanced Technology Center.
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Commercial space companies selected by NASA for collaborative partnerships - News
December 30, 2014
NASA officials chose four U.S. companies to work with the agency via unfunded partnerships to produce new space capabilities that can be made available to the U.S. government and other users. These partnerships will build on the NASA's commercial spaceflight initiatives to leverage NASA technological expertise into new applications.
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International Space Station's 3D printer makes first part in space - News
November 26, 2014
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. NASA officials announced that the crew in the he International Space Station put to use their 3D printer and produced the first 3D printed object in space -- a printhead faceplate for the printer. NASA officials see 3D printing of tools and parts as a way to reduce reliance on resupply missions from Earth.
