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NASA testing new boundary layer ingesting (BLI) propulsor; 4-8% fuel burn savings over current advanced engines

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MIT and NASA engineers earlier proposed the D8 Series as one future aircraft design concept that uses boundary layer ingestion. NASA is testing the propulsor, designed by United Technologies Research Center with research conducted by Virginia Polytechnic and State University, in its 8' x 6' Wind Tunnel at NASA Glenn in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Artemis II Will Send Astronauts Around the Moon

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It will be refreshing to see an actual, crewed mission around the moon after decades of concept art, vague promises, presidential and congressional dithering.” The Gateway space station, shown as an artist’s conception, will be the first space station to be put into lunar orbit, where it will be a vital component of the Artemis missions.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. MetalTek International, Watertown, Wis. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash.

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Teen Creates App To Identify Nutrient Deficiencies

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More than 50 percent of pregnant people become anemic, according to the Cleveland Clinic , risking premature birth, low birth weight for the baby, and postpartum depression. His father suggested he think about ikigai , a Japanese concept referring to something that gives a person a sense of purpose.

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How Zipline Designed Its Droid Delivery System

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Zipline on: Approach to drone delivery Concept for Droid design Designing for cuteness Making pinpoint deliveries IEEE Spectrum : What problems is Platform 2 solving, and why is it necessary to solve those problems in this specific way? Gregoire would spend two or three days coming up with a hundred different concept sketches.

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Army Research Lab team working to design piston engines optimized for JP-8

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In the late 1980s, the DOD issued a “Single Fuel Forward” policy calling for use of JP-8 fuel to reduce the significant logistic burden associated with managing and transporting multiple fuels on the battlefield—albeit with Commercial Off-The Shelf (COTS) internal combustion piston engines originally. Sandia National Laboratories, N.M.,

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