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Star Wars Meets UPS As Robonaut Packed For SpaceHouston TX (SPX) Aug 12, 2010 Getting into space isn't necessarily easy for astronauts, and it's not much easier for a robotic astronaut, either. Cocooned inside an aluminum frame and foam blocks cut out to its shape, Robonaut 2, or R2, is heading to the International Space Station inside the Permanent Multipurpose Module in space shuttle Discovery's payload bay as part of the STS-133 mission. Once in place inside the station, R2, with its humanlike hands and arms and stereo vision, is expected to perform some of the repetitiv ... read more |
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Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 05, 2010NASA and the European Space Agency, or ESA, have embarked on a joint program to explore Mars in the coming decades and have selected five science instruments - including one from the University of Arizona - for the first mission. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, scheduled to launch in 2016, is the first of three joint robotic missions to the Red Planet. It will study the chemical makeup of t ... more  
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 04, 2010Activities aboard the International Space Station remained focused on spacewalk preparations Tuesday as the Expedition 24 crew gets ready to replace a failed ammonia pump module that took down half the station's cooling system over the weekend. Expedition 24 astronauts Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson, both flight engineers, currently are scheduled to start the repairs Friday during ... more  
Altadena CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2010Global Aerospace Corporation (GAC) announced that Dr. Kristin L. Gates will present a paper on de-orbiting space junk at the August 2 Artificial and Natural Space Debris session of the AIAA Astrodynamics Specialists Conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Gates will describe GAC's Gossamer Orbit Lowering Device (GOLD) for safe and efficient removal from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) of dangero ... more |
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U.S. orders new unmanned combat vehiclesWashington (UPI) Jul 29, 2010 The U.S. Army has placed orders with iRobot and Boeing for 94 small unmanned ground vehicles under a $14.6 million contract announced this week. Under the deal the companies will provide the Army with new 310 models, plus spare parts. The 35-pound unmanned robots, said Bob Dalee, robotics program manager for Boeing Network and Tectical Systems, are capable of providing the "dismounted explosive ordinance disposal technician with the ability to perform reconnaissance during extremely haza ... read more |
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