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NASA Teams up with TACC to Simulate Space Junk

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/NASALDEF.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="62" border="0" />While debris might seem innocuous enough to those grounded on Earth, even pebble-sized junk in orbit poses a serious problem that ...Full Article

Inside the Human-Robotics Systems Project

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/640px-K10_black_rover_at_Haughton_Crater.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="64" border="0" />NASA's Human-Robotic Systems Project, which includes a series of four interplanetary K10 rovers, each with a different task is explained by ...Full Article

NASA, the Navy to Streamline Supply Chains with 3D Printers

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/navycarriers.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="68" border="0" />It would seem that additive manufacturing is poised to take on an even greater load for U.S. government agencies, as the ...Full Article

NASA to 3D Print the Future of Food

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/NASA-funds-3D-food-printer-starts-with-pizza.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="60" border="0" />NASA has awarded a $125,000 grant for a project intended to 3D print food for astronauts in space. The printer will ...Full Article

Superhuman Machines Emerge from DARPA Robotics Challenge

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/chimp.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="143" />Only a few months have passed since the teams for the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) were announced, but already many of the ...Full Article

NASA Uses 3D Printing to Build Rocket Engine

<img src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/nasa-3-d-printing-sls-rocket-engine_1.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" />When NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rockets beyond Earth orbit, a lot more may be riding on it than just a crew of astronauts: ...Full Article

Star Trek Becomes a Reality with Fusion Impulse Drive

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/625px-Dilithiumcrystals.jpg" alt="" width="94" height="72" />Sci-Fi fans, hold onto your seats, because fusion impulse rocket engines may be coming to a spacecraft near you. Researchers from the ...Full Article

Where No One Has Gone Before

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DMR_StarshipProgram01.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="103" />Practically everybody likes the idea of exploring space. Exploration is written right into our genetic code, from back when we wondered what ...Full Article

Additive Manufacturing Used to Create Durable Parts for Manned Martian Exploration

Now undergoing testing in the Arizona desert, the big rover features 70 parts that were created using Stratasys Fused Deposition Modeling technology.Full Article

Case Study: MSC Nastran Used to Optimize Unmanned Aircraft Performance

The Global Observer is an unmanned aircraft with the wingspan of a Boeing 767 but less than 10 percent of the weight designed to provide communications and sensing for ...Full Article