A series of “potential activations” of an F-16’s emergency power unit over several hours during routine maintenance Tuesday at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona sent 13 airmen to the hospital with possible ...

Photo: NASA (Outer Image)/ compound image by autoevolution (Inner Image) Chemical fuel is nasty stuff to squishy, vulnerable flesh sacks called humans, from the noxious, flammable vapor of gasoline to ...

Hydrazine is commonly used as a propellant for the satellites built by Airbus Defence and Space and many others in Europe and abroad. Credit: Airbus BREMEN, Germany — The European Union might ban the ...

Figure 1: Chemical structures of labelled samples before and after hydrazine treatment. Figure 2: 13 C REDOR SSNMR measurement of labelled RGO. Figure 3: 15 N REDOR SSNMR measurement of labelled RGO.

The recent crash of a South Dakota Air National Guard F-16 into a warehouse near March Air Reserve Base highlights once again the risk associated with Hydrazine leakes. As already reported, on May 16, ...

For the first time, chemists have managed to use palladium cross-coupling chemistry to wed aryl groups with hydrazine (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., DOI: 10.1002/anie.201003764). The resulting aryl ...

Experienced boiler operators know that oxygen can cause localized, severe corrosion in steam boiler systems through a process called oxygen pitting. This occurs when dissolved oxygen in the water ...

Hydrazine (N 2 H 4) is a highly toxic organic amine that can spontaneously ignite or explode when exposed to strong oxidants, air, or high temperatures. It is classified as a Class B2 hazardous ...

Spaceflight is inherently dangerous. It takes a certain type of person to willingly strap into what’s essentially a refined bomb and hope for the best. But what might not be so obvious is that the ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) -As the Mars Rover Perseverance landed, the cheers in NASA Control could be heard around the world. But others just as jubilant were employees at Lonza, the local specialty ...

Design concept for Orbit Fab’s Tanker-002, mounted on a Spaceflight Sherpa-ES in transit to geostationary orbit. TITUSVILLE, Fla. — Orbit Fab, a startup developing infrastructure for in-space ...