[Robotgroup] NASA Tech Briefs

[Shane Geiger]

According to my research micromachined angular rate sensors (aka, gyro 
on a chip) such as the QRS-11 have been installed in airplanes and 
missles for some time now.  It is also small and light.  I wonder about 
the price.

http://www.systron.com/pro_QRS11.asp

According to 9/11 conspiracy films I have seen, remotely controlling 
planes is not a new thing.  Remote takeoffs and landings have been 
possible for decades.



Ed Xavier Gonzalez wrote:
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>> * European Satellite Navigation Service Guides Airplane Pilots
>> * Experimental Malaria Drug Cures in One Dose
>> * Scientists Create New "Ultra-Hard" Material
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>>
>> PLANE NAVIGATION
>> The European Space Agency (ESA, Paris, France) is conducting trials
>> into helping guide airplane pilots via signals from satellites. 
>> Flight trials are being conducted to demonstrate the new 
>> possibilities offered by the European Geostationary Navigation 
>> Overlay Service (EGNOS), which has been launched by ESA, the 
>> European Commission, and Eurocontrol. The first European satellite 
>> navigation service, EGNOS will offer pilots vertical guidance 
>> information during approach and landing.
>>
>> The results of the trials show that EGNOS signals allow approaches 
>> and landings that meet the safety standards that govern 
>> international air traffic. The advantage of EGNOS is that it would 
>> be available everywhere without the need for ground infrastructure. 
>> It also provides vertical guidance procedures for every runway.
>>
>> For more information, visit: http://link.abpi.net/l.php?20070424A2
>>
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>>
>> MALARIA TREATMENT
>> Researchers at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) have cured
>> malaria-infected mice with single shots of a new series of potent,
>> long-lasting synthetic drugs modeled on an ancient Chinese herbal 
>> folk remedy. The drugs mimic artemisinin, the active agent in a 
>> Chinese herbal drug used to treat malaria and other fevers for 
>> thousands of years. Artemisinin comes from the Artemisia annua plant.
>>
>> "These peroxide compounds promise not only to be more effective than 
>> today's best malaria remedies, but also potentially safer and more 
>> efficient," said research team leader Gary Posner, Scowe Professor 
>> of Chemistry in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns 
>> Hopkins.  The oxygen-oxygen unit in the peroxides causes malaria 
>> parasites to self-destruct.
>>
>> For more information, visit: http://link.abpi.net/l.php?20070424A6
>>
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>>
>> ULTRA-HARD MATERIAL
>> Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) have 
>> made rhenium diboride, an "ultra-hard material" in a process that 
>> does not require applying pressure. Ultra-hard materials are used in 
>> the construction of new roads, for drills that bore for oil, and for 
>> scratch-resistant coatings. While diamond is the hardest known 
>> natural substance, it cannot drill though certain materials; a 
>> chemical reaction with iron causes a diamond blade to fail.
>>
>> At low applied forces, the hardness of rhenium diboride is 
>> equivalent to cubic boron nitride, the second-hardest material 
>> known. At higher applied forces, rhenium diboride is a little bit below that.
>>
>> For more information, visit: http://link.abpi.net/l.php?20070424A8
>>
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