By: Elizabeth Hobbs The HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology has a new building gracing its skyline– a 14,000-square-foot glass greenhouse to be exact. The highly sophisticated facility is equipped with two lab spaces, seven grow rooms with fifteen-foot ceilings, and several technologically advanced features…
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Lockheed Martin breaks ground on $16.5M facility
by: Lynsey Smith / WHNT HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – A new milestone for Lockheed Martin. The aerospace company officially broke ground on its Missile System Integration Lab Monday morning. The facility is a $16.5 million corporate investment and adds a 25,000-square-foot…
Alabama-led space weather forecasts could help Space Command
A coronal mass ejection — an immense cloud of magnetized particles — leaps off the sun in this image taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft on August 31, 2012. Earth was added to show scale. (Photo courtesy of NASA’s Goddard…
Orbit Fab and Benchmark Space Systems to partner on in-space refueling technologies
[by Jeff Foust, SpaceNews, Photo by Bryan Versteeg – Orbit Fab’s first tanker spacecraft will carry hydrogen peroxide propellant to refuel thrusters developed by Benchmark Space Systems.] WASHINGTON — Two startups are partnering on technology that they hope can jump-start the…