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Reconfigurable Track Wheel.
Innovation Manufacturing

Redesigning the Wheel: the Reconfigurable Wheel Track

Wheels are round. This is an established fact regarding carts, vehicles, and most modes of transportation. The wheels on the bus go round and round, we sing as children. So yes, a wheel is round. Except when it isn’t. In a collaborative effort between Carnegie Mellon and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the […]

Green Supersonic Machine
Innovation Space

Supersonic Style: the Supersonic Green Machine

It’s mean, it’s lean, it’s covered in green. It can travel at supersonic speeds without creating ear-shattering sonic booms. No, it’s not Superman swapping his costume with the Green Lantern’s- it’s the Supersonic Green Machine. Designed by the Lockheed Martin Corporation for NASA, the Supersonic Green Machine is an aircraft capable of overland supersonic flight. […]

Stratolaunch's Roc plane
Innovation Space

In Orbit: The Stratolaunch Program

For several decades now, humans have been using satellites to get a better understanding of the planet and outer space. Unfortunately, despite their usefulness, cost and wait times have kept many satellites grounded. While this problem has been lessened somewhat by modern technology, it’s still a prevalent issue. This is the very problem Stratolaunch wants […]