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NASA Green Tech Research might save commercial airlines billions.

2016-01-07 14:31:07| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

Green-related technologies, developed and refined by NASA aeronautics researchers during past 6 years, could help airlines realize up to $255 billion in operational savings between 2025 and 2050. Developed under purview of NASA's Environmentally Responsible Aviation (ERA) project, said technologies could cut airline fuel use in half, pollution by 75%, and noise to near 1/8 of current levels. Information will be discussed at American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Sci-Tech Conference.

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NASA releases photos showing strong El Nino for 2016

2016-01-01 21:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Comment: A comparison made of two satellite images showed that 1997's El Nino gathered strength in November, while this year's weather pattern will be affecting a larger swath of the high seas in December. This year, however, scientists believe that the prospect of witnessing the strongest El-Nino on record are pretty good. The latest image and the 1997 image both show unusually high sea surface heights along the equator in the central and eastern Pacific. El Nino is already being felt in other parts...

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NASA under orders to build a deep-space habitat by 2018

2015-12-30 21:23:43| Extremetech

Congress has instructed NASA to step up the development of a habitation module that can take astronauts on deep space missions.

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NASA postpones next Mars mission for at least two years

2015-12-24 13:30:36| Extremetech

A faulty instrument has led to the cancellation of InSight's 2016 launch, and at least a two year delay. NASA is evaluating its funding to see if this lander can ever make the trip to Mars.

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