Darpa shelves its ambitious £149m 'swarms of satellites' project
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has shelved an ambitious plan for swarm-like satellites flying in formation, despite spending ...
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No swarms in space: DARPA axes $200mn ‘fractionated sat’ project
The project, fully named Future, Fast, Flexible, Fractionated Free-flying Spacecraft United by Information Exchange, was expected to go to the ...
Hypersonic Weapons Could Hit Battlefield by 2025
Next-generation weapons may scream through the skies at five times the speed of sound.
After $200 Million, Darpa Gives Up on Formation-Flying Satellites
Darpa is ending its experiment with small, close-flying spacecraft, but that doesn't mean the concept is dead.
DARPA Seeks Situational Awareness Tech
Agency reaches out to vendors for technology concepts that could help soldiers react to situations without getting too close to ...
Stanford physicists develop revolutionary low-power polariton laser
Stanford physicists have created a new method of producing coherent matter beams. The new low-power laser system could one day be used in everything ...
Honeybees trained to sniff out landmines in Croatia
A team of Croatian researchers are training honeybees to sniff out unexploded mines that still pepper the Balkans. Nikola Kezic, a professor in the ...
Don't Let Predictability Become the Enemy of Innovation
Unhappily shocked by Sputnik's unexpected 1957 success, President Eisenhower quickly pushed the Pentagon to establish the Defense Advanced Research ...
NZ-US meetings hit the limelight
The warning from the crew aboard the Air Force 757 before it taxied into Washington's Andrews Air Force Base was that no one on board should attempt ...
New Technologies to Make Us Sleep Less, and Better
Having 50% more “conscious lifetime” might sound like an appealing proposition to anyone with a hectic schedule. This could be achieved not ...