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NASA Readies Shuttle Discovery for Final MissionKSC FL (SPX) Oct 25, 2010 The countdown is on: NASA has only two shuttle launches left. The U.S. space agency is retiring its shuttle fleet next year and encouraging the development of commercial human spaceflight vehicles. Space shuttle Discovery is set to launch November 1 Last week, engineers found that Discovery had developed a fuel leak. John Shannon, the space shuttle program manager at NASA's Johnson Space Flight Center in Houston, Texas, says engineers have the situation under control. "We had a v ... read more |
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  Computational Swimming Fish Aids Robot And Prosthetic Design Scientists at the University of Maryland and Tulane University have developed a computational model of a swimming fish that is the first to address the interaction of both internal and external forc ... more | .. |
  Building Europe's Vision For Space Exploration Europe's vision for launching astronauts and robot explorers out into the Solar System will come into sharper focus on 21 October when the ministers responsible for space activities meet in Brussels ... more | .. |
  Boeing And iRobot Team Receives SUGV Contract From USAF Boeing and partner iRobot have reported that they have received an initial contract with the U.S. Air Force to provide Small Unmanned Ground Vehicles (SUGV) to its Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) ... more | .. |
  UBC Underwater Robot To Explore Ice-Covered Ocean And Antarctic Ice Shelf Researchers at the University of British Columbia are deploying an underwater robot to survey ice-covered ocean in Antarctica from October 17 through November 12. Scientists predict that the s ... more | .. |
  NASA to buy private moon data NASA has signed contracts with U.S. six teams competing to design, build and launch private moon probes to purchase their lunar data, agency officials say. The six teams are competing in the Goog ... more |
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Madrid, Spain (SPX) Oct 18, 2010Scientists at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have developed a new system for docking and capturing space satellites based on robotics and computer vision technology to autonomously guide a space vehicle to dock and capture the satellites. Within the framework of this research project, "Acoplamiento y Agarre de Satelites mediante Sistemas Roboticos basado en Vision (Docking and ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 18, 2010NASA has awarded Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) contracts to six companies for the purchase of technical data resulting from industry efforts to develop vehicle capabilities and demonstrate end-to-end robotic lunar landing missions. The data from these contracts will inform the development of future human and robotic lander vehicles and exploration systems. The ILDD Broa ... more  
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 18, 2010The authors of a new book have called for the development of more robust international ocean and ice sheet monitoring and modelling programs designed to help community adaptation planning keep pace with the threat of rising sea levels. "The good news is that a recent concentration of science resources is improving our insight into ocean and ice dynamics, and scientific measurement of the r ... more |
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Google in major bid for Eastern US wind powerWashington (AFP) Oct 12, 2010 Investors led by technology giant Google on Tuesday announced a five billion-dollar project to power the US East Coast with wind from the Atlantic Ocean, in an ambitious bid to spur alternative energy. The project would set up offshore wind turbines and a new transmission grid stretching 350 miles (565 kilometers) from New Jersey to Virginia, the most densely populated part of the United States which suffered blackouts in 2003. Google, the Internet search giant whose interests now run the gamut ... read more |
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