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DARPA to Develop Advanced Tiny Chip-Scale Atomic Clocks for Military PNT Applications

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is presently working on an advanced version of its first-generation, battery-powered, miniature chip-scale atomic clock (CSAC) with 1000x performance improvements for positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) applications. DARPA’s Atomic Clock with Enhanced Stability (ACES) program aims to build the next-generation atomic clock owing to the limitations of the now

Mars Insight Heat Probe Detective Work Continues

HOUSTON—Experts from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have not given up on efforts to fully deploy the Mars InSight lander’s subsurface thermal probe, which has been stalled at a depth of 30 cm (12 in.), far from its goal of 5 m since late February. NASA’s $1 billion, two-year InSight

”Space Fabric” Links Fashion and Engineering

Raul Polit-Casillas grew up around fabrics. His mother is a fashion designer in Spain, and, at a young age, he was intrigued by how materials are used for design. Now, as a systems engineer at NASA”s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, he is still very much in the world of textiles. He and his