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Halo maker Bungie focuses on mobile, social gaming with new venture
Bungie, creator of the legendary Halo video game franchise, is turning its attention to mobile and social gaming with its new Bungie Aerospace venture.
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Cloud business not too far of a reach for aerospace company
Lockheed Martin's BlackCloud: Another example of a company with original roots outside the IT world crossing the boundary to cloud provider role.
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Key hire spells new growth phase for heat recovery start-up Alphabet Energy
At the start of 2011 when many of you were still on holiday, I visited the web site for start-up Alphabet Energy, because I figured the company must be ready to come out of stealth mode. Turns out...
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SOFIA airborne telescope aims high (photos)
The joint program between NASA and Germany's aerospace agency makes the first flight of its astronomical study missions, with a telescope tucked in the tail of a 747.
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Human-powered 'flapping-wing' plane first ever to take flight (video)
Over half a millennium ago, Leonardo da Vinci sketched the first human-powered ornithopter. For centuries since, engineers have attempted to build a human-powered aircraft with flapping wings....
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Video: Visualising the aerospace reboot
When a volcano in Iceland erupted nearly two weeks ago, the UK government acted on advice by air traffic control to close the entire airspace in, out and around the country. With the ash cloud...
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Nanotechnology-based flexible actuators
In 'Nanotube paper flexes on demand,' nanotechweb.org reports that French researchers are using multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) reinforced with polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) to develop...
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Images: Microsoft puts universe on your desktop
Stargazers can find black holes, radiation fields, and supernovas right from their desktops with Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope.
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Google lunar challenge gets under way
Google and the X Prize Foundation kick off their Google Lunar X Prize, announcing the first 10 registered competitors.
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Mobiles on the moon? NASA, Brits dial up a plan
Even in the cosmos there will be no escaping the ringtone as NASA and the British National Space Centre prep a mobile network for the moon.
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Birds give a lesson to plane designers
You all know that most species of animals can fly -- but not humans. There are more than a million species of flying insects, but do you know that among the 13,000 warm-blood vertebrate species...
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Flying telescope makes heavenly visit
Long-awaited--and long-delayed--airborne observatory called Sofia makes first trip to NASA Ames, which had been expected to be its home.Photos: Flying observatory's homecoming
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Photos: X Prize rocket rally in New Mexico
The X Prize Cup didn't get the liftoff it hoped for, but there was plenty over the weekend to satisfy aerospace enthusiasts.
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X Prize Cup rocket competition flames out
The only team competing failed to complete more than two flights, leaving the challenge unmet for another year. Photos: X Prize rocket contest, expo
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X Prize Cup brings outer space to New Mexico
The weekend aerospace event aims to fuel a new age of rocket tourism and orbital entertainment.Photos: Gearing up for the X Prize Cup
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Space elevator isn't going anywhere yet
For the third year in a row, no team rises to the challenge of building a robotic climber and a vertical tether that could one day comprise a workable space elevator.
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Toward greener jet fuels
Researchers at Princeton University are currently working on two projects to reduce jet travel's role in global warming. The first one, a major project funded by the U.S. Air Force with $7.5...
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NASA scoops up planetary details on Jupiter flyby
NASA releases details about its robotic flyby of Jupiter, which rendered rare glimpses of the solar system's biggest planet and one of its moons.Images: New findings from Jupiter
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Can technology solve air travel woes?
Senators and aviation executives say it'll help. Others warn that travel snafus can't all be blamed on a 1950s-era air traffic control system.
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NASA pundits launch debate over space flight
Panelists at a conference in Pasadena, Calif., question whether there's a need to put another man on the moon.
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