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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 15, 2009 
NASA robots soon will begin exploring the dusty, rocky terrain of a barren desert on Earth much like the moon. Scientists and engineers will study the images and information the robots gather to help plan where humans should venture next. To simulate robots scouting on the lunar surface before a human space crew arrives, the "K10 Red" and "K10 Black" robots developed at NASA Ames Research ... read more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2009Although Spirit has yet to begin to extricate herself from the loose, soft terrain on the west side of Home Plate, the rover has been active using her instruments to assess her embedded state. This week the robotic arm (Instrument Deployment Device, IDD) with the Microscopic Imager (MI) were used to take a mosaic of images of the rover's underbelly. The MI, a short focus camera, was ... more
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Cambridge MA (SPX) Jun 12, 2009In November 2008, Caroline Moore, a 14-year-old student from upstate New York, discovered a supernova in a nearby galaxy, making her the youngest person ever to do so. Additional observations determined that the object, called SN 2008ha, is a new type of stellar explosion, 1000 times more powerful than a nova but 1000 times less powerful than a supernova. Astronomers say that it may be the ... more 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2009When NASA launches the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a yearlong unmanned mission to comprehensively map the entire moon, later this month, UCLA's David Paige will be leading its Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment, which will perform the first global survey of the temperature of the lunar surface as the spacecraft orbits some 31 miles above the moon. "The terrain on the far side of the ... more  
Paris (AFP) June 7, 2009Agnes Guillot dreams of one day seeing a giant 50-centimetre (20-inch) -long white rat called Psikharpax scuttling fearlessly around her lab. If so, it will be time to scream... but out of joy, rather than fear, for it could be a turning point in the history of robotics. Psikharpax - named after a cunning king of the rats, according to a tale attributed to Homer - is the brainchild of ... more  
Shanghai, China (SPX) Jun 08, 2009Actel has announced the winners of its 2009 Actel Cup China Students FPGA design competition. Chosen from more than 300 submissions by students from 190 universities, designs from Xian University of Electronic Science and Technology and South China Agricultural University were tied for first place, meeting the contest's very high standards for creativity, including three key qualifications: high ... more |
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Paris (UPI) Jun 4, 2009 This month's 48th International Paris Air Show will celebrate its 100th anniversary -- the first Paris Air Show was held in 1909 at the city's Grand Palace. The 2009 event at Le Bourget Airport runs June 15-21, with more than 200 000 visitors expected to attend, the European Space Agency said. The ESA said it will participate with a 5,382-square-foot pavilion located between full ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2009Four hundred years ago, the Italian scientist Galileo revolutionized the science of astronomy by inventing the first telescope. People began to consider the possibility of discovering other worlds like Earth - fantastic worlds inhabited by weird and wonderful civilizations. As technology continued to improve our telescopic vision, we sadly learned that the other planets in our solar system ... more  
Houston TX (SPX) May 29, 2009Take one space shuttle, seven highly trained astronauts, tons of equipment, and one legendary orbiting telescope and you have the 5.3 million-mile odyssey that was the final servicing mission for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. After months of training and a seven-month postponement, the STS-125 crew's mission got under way with an on-time launch into a brilliant-blue Florida sky. The May ... more 
Paris, France (ESA) May 28, 2009ESA astronaut Frank De Winne is heading to the International Space Station at the start of his six-month OasISS mission. Together with Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk, De Winne launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 12:34 CEST (10:34 UT). Their Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft is scheduled to dock with the International Space Station (I ... more |
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