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NASA Awards Contract To Team FREDNET Google Lunar X PRIZE ContenderHuntsville AL (SPX) Oct 26, 2010 Team FREDNET has been awarded a NASA Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) contract at the maximum government purchase value of $10.01 million. As a recipient of this ILDD contract, Team FREDNET will offer technical data relating to its robotic Google Lunar X PRIZE landing mission, which in-turn will influence the development of future NASA human and robotic lander vehicles and exploration systems. Informing Team FREDNET of its receipt of this award from a substantial pool of applicants, NAS ... read more |
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  The International Future In Space The repercussions of NASA Administrator Charles Bolden's controversial tour of China continue to circulate, both in the media and in less public circles. Regardless of how we judge this, the fact th ... more | .. |
  Opportunity's Eastward View After Sol 2382 Drive This mosaic of images from the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows a 90-degree view centered toward the east following a 93.3-meter (306-foot) drive east-northeastwa ... more | .. |
  Remotec Awarded USAF Contract For HD-1 Fleet Counter-IED Upgrades Northrop Grumman subsidiary Remotec will upgrade the U.S. Air Force fleet of Andros HD-1 unmanned ground vehicles to help counter evolving threats from improvised explosive devices (IED). The ... more | .. |
  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 |
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Huntsville, AL (SPX) Oct 18, 2010Boeing 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) team. The contract calls for up to 70 model 310 SUGV robots, with an initial value of $3.84 million. The Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity contract will run through September 2012. "Boein ... more  
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Oct 21, 2010Researchers 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 sea ice area around Antarctica will be reduced by more than 33 per cent by 2100, accelerating the collapse of ice shelves. Up to hundreds of metres thick, ice shelves are floating platforms of ice that ... more  
Washington (UPI) Oct 18, 2010 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 Google Lunar X Prize contest to send low-cost missions to the lunar surface, SPACE.com reported. "The dollar values may be a relatively small contract by NASA standards, but these contracts s ... more |
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We Will Need To Adapt To Rising Sea LevelsCanberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 18, 2010 The 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 rate of sea-level rise," says the book's lead editor, CSIRO Fellow and oceanographer Dr John Church. "The ... read more |
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