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March 11, 2018

NASA Awards $96 Million To U.S. Small Businesses

Grants Will Be Used For Tech Research, Development

NASA has selected 128 proposals from American small businesses to advance research and technology in Phase II of its 2017 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. These selections support NASA's future space exploration missions, while also benefiting the U.S. economy.

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DroneShield Establishes A European Hub

Records First Order For DroneSentinel System

DroneShield Ltd, an Australian public company with substantial U.S. operations, has announced that it it has received the first order for its recently-introduced DroneSentinel product.

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Drones Find Previously Unknown 'Supercolony' Of Adelie Penguins In Antarctica

Aircraft Operated By The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

For the past 40 years, the total number of Adélie Penguins, one of the most common on the Antarctic Peninsula, has been steadily declining—or so biologists have thought. A new study led by researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), however, is providing new insights on this species of penguin.

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Helicopters Fill Missions From Rescues To Damage Assessment In California

Aircraft Filled Multiple Roles During West Coast Wildfires

Helicopters helped save lives during the California wildfires of 2017 – an effort that drew on aviation resources for everything from rescues to taking the damage’s toll.

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NASA Finds A Large Amount Of Water In An Exoplanet's Atmosphere

Hubble And Spitzer Telescopes Detect 'Fingerprints' Of Water In A Saturn-Mass Planet

Much like detectives study fingerprints to identify the culprit, scientists used NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to find the “fingerprints” of water in the atmosphere of a hot, bloated, Saturn-mass exoplanet some 700 light-years away. And, they found a lot of water. In fact, the planet, known as WASP-39b, has three times as much water as Saturn does.

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Republic Airways Joins Food For The Poor To Help Transform Lives In Haiti

Building 80 Homes In The Community Of Barriere Battant In Petit Goave

Republic Airways is on a mission to make a difference. The Indianapolis-based airline is working through Food For The Poor to build a village in the community of Barriere Battant in Petit Goave, Haiti. Republic Airways CEO/President Bryan Bedford is no stranger to giving back, but it was a visit to the Caribbean nation last year that moved him to transform lives.

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Proton Continues To Reinvent Itself To Compete For Launch Business

Says Rocket Continues To Have The Full Support Of The Russian Government

The top executive with the U.S. firm that markets Russia’s Proton rocket blasted what he characterized as a recent slew of misinformation surrounding the vehicle, saying it enjoys the full support of the Russian government and that the culmination of a three-year quality control program instituted by its manufacturer is restoring the reliability for which the vehicle has long been known.

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Licenses Gear Bearing Technology

Bahari Energy Will Use The Technology For Urban Wind Power Generation

The Strategic Partnerships Office (SPO) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has signed a partially exclusive license agreement for gear bearing technology with Bahari Energy LLC, of Rockville, Maryland, for use in its Energy Wind Tower designed for the urban environment.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (03.11.18)

Aero Linx: Aircraft Electronics Association The AEA membership includes government-certified international repair stations, manufacturers of avionics equipment, instrument repair facilities, instrument manufacturers, airframe manufacturers, test equipment manufacturers, major distributors, engineers and educational institutions.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (03.11.18): Fuel Remaining

Fuel Remaining

A phrase used by either pilots or controllers when relating to the fuel remaining on board until actual fuel exhaustion. When transmitting such information in response to either a controller question or pilot initiated cautionary advisory to air traffic control, pilots will state the APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF MINUTES the flight can continue with the fuel remaining. All reserve fuel SHOULD BE INCLUDED in the time stated, as should an allowance for established fuel gauge system error.

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (03.11.18)

"The drone lets you fly in a grid over the island, taking pictures once per second. You can then stitch them together into a huge collage that shows the entire landmass in 2D and 3D." Source: co-PI Hanumant Singh, Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Northeastern University, who developed a drone imaging and navigation system for a new study led by researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), that is providing new insights on this species of penguin.

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