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AFOSR and NASA Launch First Test Rocket Fueled by Aluminum-Ice Propellant

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It consists of an all-carbon-fiber, minimum-diameter high-power rocketry kit. Penn State and Purdue University researchers presented a paper on an investigation of ALICE propellants at the 45 th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit earlier this month in Denver, Colorado. Credit: Dr. Steven F.

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NVIDIA unveils Tegra K1 192-core mobile processor; ADAS applications on the way to autonomous driving

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In its automotive-grade form, the chip is hardened to withstand a wider range of temperatures and withstand harsher operating conditions. Libraries of photo-realistic rendered material provide a nearly limitless range of customizable digital cockpit configurations. The first version uses a 32-bit quad-core, 4-Plus-1 ARM Cortex A15 CPU.

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