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The Inertial Navigation System provides absolute positioning and is a key part of the sensor suite that is required for autonomous vehicles to safely and accurately navigate from one location to the next.

All About Inertial Navigation Systems

How can autonomous vehicles safely and accurately get from one place to another?

The ARRW rapid prototyping program used Section 804 authorities provided by Congress to significantly accelerate the development and test of this system.

Air Force, Lockheed Martin Complete Hypersonic Boosted Test Flight

Additional booster and all-up-round test flights will continue throughout 2022.

Due to the high cost involved, most satellites are not removed after their mission is completed.

Space Tether Could Prevent Dead Satellites from Hitting Earth

The E.T. PACK-Fly equipment uses an electrodynamic space tether that does not require propellant.

The test specimen of a Buddha hand was provided by Dazu Rock Carvings, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in China. Repair work using biocement was done at Chongqing University, China, by Dr. Yang Yang. The biocement solution is colorless, allowing restoration works to maintain the carving’s original color.

Renewable Biocement Made Entirely Out of Waste Material

FastBlade's 75-tonne reaction frame fitted with a tidal turbine blade.

Tidal Blade Facility to Be Leading Edge of Green Energy Testing

Tourists look at an old turbine that was replaced at the Glen Canyon Dam.

Hydropower's Future Clouded By Droughts, Floods & Climate Change

Raytheon Intelligence & Space’s high-energy laser systems use photons, or particles of light, to carry out military missions and civil defense.

Raytheon Shoots Down Drones, Mortars with Laser

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing has a new podcast brought to you by the editors of Industrial Media. In each episode, we discuss the five biggest stories in manufacturing, and the implications they have on the industry moving forward.

President Joe Biden speaks about his infrastructure agenda at the New Hampshire Port Authority, Portsmouth, N.H., April 19, 2022.

Six Months in, 4,300 Infrastructure Projects Underway

More than $110 billion in funding has been announced so far.

Electric vehicle charging station and car share parking are seen in Auckland, New Zealand, on Aug. 12, 2021. New Zealand will help pay for lower-income families to scrap their old gas guzzlers and replace them with cleaner hybrid or electric cars as part of a sweeping plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions the government announced Monday May 16, 2022.

New Zealand to Help Pay for Cleaner Cars to Reduce Emissions

The plan represents a step toward the pledges the nation made under the 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change.

RTX Ventures will directly support the buildout of its first aircraft, Quarterhorse.

Raytheon Invests in Hypersonic Aircraft Company Hermeus

RTX Ventures will directly support the buildout of its first aircraft, Quarterhorse.

Visitors cross a suspension bridge for the pedestrians that is the longest such construction in the world shortly after its official opening at a mountain resort in Dolni Morava, Czech Republic, Friday, May 13, 2022. The 721-meter (2,365 feet) long bridge is built at the altitude of more than 1,100 meters above the sea level. It connects two ridges of the mountains up to 95 meters above a valley between them.

Longest Pedestrian Suspension Bridge Opens

Up to 500 people will be allowed to be on the bridge at any one time.

This Feb. 10, 2022, image released by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance shows Msituni, a giraffe calf born with an unusual disorder that caused her legs to bend the wrong way, at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, north of San Diego.

Baby Giraffe Walks Again with Custom Orthotic

It was the company's first animal patient.

SL’s new purpose-designed diesel-electric self-unloading ship begins service for Windsor Salt.

CSL Debuts Diesel-Electric Self-Unloading Cargo Ship

The ship's fully automated single point of loading and cargo handling systems performed as designed.

For the first time, scientists have used lunar soil collected by long-ago moonwalkers to grow plants, with results promising enough that NASA and others already are envisioning hothouses on the moon for the next generation of lunar explorers.

Scientists Grow Plants in Lunar Dirt, Next Stop Moon

The results stunned researchers.

The announcement that the Tesla billionaire tweeted Friday, May 13, 2022 is another twist amid signs of internal turmoil over his planned buyout of Twitter.

Elon Musk: Twitter Deal 'Temporarily on Hold'

It wasn’t clear whether the issue could scuttle the deal.

The new company will be led by Nadav Goshen, current MakerBot CEO, and Jürgen von Hollen, current Ultimaker CEO, who will act as Co-CEOs

MakerBot and Ultimaker are Merging

The new entity aims to offer easy-to-use and accessible desktop 3D printing solutions.

Chocolate drops covered with candy nonpareils (left), a bowl of colorful candy nonpareils (center), pharmaceutical caplets coated with nonpareils (right).

Candy-Coated Pills Could Prevent Pharmaceutical Fraud

It's called "CandyCode."

Since 2019, Boeing Phantom Works and Nammo have been working together under a strategic partnership.

Boeing Claims Successful Test of Ramjet Long-Range Projectile

The team continues to develop and mature the technology.