|
 
NASA NIA To Sponsor Student Planetary Rover ChallengeHampton VA (SPX) Nov 11, 2010 Few NASA projects in recent years have captured the public's attention like the Mars rovers. Now researchers are hoping the chance to design a future rover may capture university students' interest. NASA and the National Institute of Aerospace or NIA in Hampton, Va., have launched a new planetary rover engineering competition called Exploration Robo-Ops Student Challenge. University teams are eligible to win as much as $10,000 for designing and building a planetary rover, then demonstrating its ca ... read more |
. |
 |
| Buy Advertising | Media Advertising Kit | Editorial & Other Enquiries | Privacy statement |
|
Free Newsletters - Delivered Daily Via Email - Space - War - Terra - Energy |
| . | . |
  
China prepares offshore test base for reusable liquid rocket launches
Icy cycles may have driven early protocell evolution
Understanding USDT How Stablecoins Maintain Value in Volatile Markets | .. |
  Mobile technology can help improve global health: Gates Mobile technology can help improve global health with cheap diagnostic tools, patient reminders and making immunization programs more efficient, Microsoft founder Bill Gates said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Tank leak delays Discovery launch until end November A hydrogen leak forced NASA to announce its fifth delay Friday to the space shuttle Discovery's final mission to the International Space Station, this time until the end of November. ... more | .. |
  Bringing a Bit of Mars Back Home If there is evidence of life on Mars, it will be found in the planet's rocks. And as most scientists who study Mars will tell you, the best way to learn about martian rocks is to bring a few back to ... more | .. |
  Multi-Purpose UAVs To Get NG STARLite Radars Northrop Grumman has been selected to supply an additional 40 STARLite wide area surveillance radars featuring synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and ground moving target indicator (GMTI) capabilities f ... more |
| .. |
  Long-Range Undersea Robot Goes The Distance Over the past decade, the undersea robots known as autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have become increasingly important in oceanographic research. Today's AUVs fall into two groups: 1) propeller ... more | .. |
 Function Analysis Drives The Development Of A Concept Mars Rover Humans have walked on the Moon, and inevitably, according to NASA, humans will tread the Red Planet as well, possibly by 2037. An ergonomist and an industrial designer pondered the challenges of the ... more | .. |
 Virtual Flight On A Robotic Arm Only Andreas Knoblach's legs hang out from under the cover of the 'cockpit'. They are dangling five metres above the ground while the enormous robotic arm slowly swivels the virtual-reality 'capsule ... more | .. |
 Shuttle Discovery launch delayed to Friday The final scheduled launch of the space shuttle Discovery before being mothballed in a museum was delayed for a fourth time Thursday due to bad weather, the latest in a series of delays for orbiter's mission to the International Space Station. ... more |
|
Free Newsletters - Delivered Daily Via Email - Space - War - Terra - Energy |
 Solar energy quotes and Solar energy solutions | .. |
Hydrogen leak delays shuttle Discovery launch: NASA A hydrogen leak in the external fuel tank of Discovery forced NASA to delay its final mission. "The next possible launch attempt will be, at this point, not earlier than Monday ... more | .. |
Weather delays Discovery space shuttle launch: NASA NASA postponed until Friday the launch of shuttle Discovery due to bad weather, the latest in a series of delays for orbiter's final scheduled flight to the International Space Station. Heavy rain early Thursday ... more | .. |
 US Army Building Smarter Robots The U.S. Army is exploring ways to upgrade its fleet of roughly 3,000 small tactical robots in Iraq and Afghanistan designed to safeguard Soldiers by clearing buildings and caves and using sensors t ... more | .. |
 Studying Child-Mother Interactions To Design Robots With Social Skills To help unravel the mysteries of human cognitive development and reach new the frontiers in robotics, University of Miami (UM) developmental psychologists and computer scientists from the University ... more |
| .. |
 More delays for Discovery shuttle launch The launch of the shuttle Discovery was delayed until Thursday, the latest in a series of glitches that have set back its final mission to the International Space Station. ... more | .. |
Electrical malfunction delays Discovery launch to Thursday An electrical malfunction has forced the US space agency to delay until Thursday the shuttle Discovery's final mission to the International Space Station, NASA said. ... more | .. |
 Obama hails 'important milestone' in space exploration US President Barack Obama hailed the 10th anniversary of crews aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday as an "important milestone" in the history of human space exploration. ... more | .. |
Shuttle Discovery counts down to final space voyage Discovery, the oldest space shuttle in NASA's fleet, is readying for its final mission Wednesday following repairs to leaks in a pressurization system that has twice delayed the launch. ... more |
|
Free Newsletters - Delivered Daily Via Email - Space - War - Terra - Energy |
|
| .. |
  China Goes To Mars As China's second Moon probe continues its mission, more information is being disclosed about China's ambitions for worlds beyond. China has made no secret of its plans to explore Mars, but we are g ... more | .. |
  Moon Express Enters $30 Million Google Lunar X PRIZE Competition Moon Express has announced its official entry into the Google Lunar X PRIZE - a $30 million competition that challenges space professionals and engineers from across the globe to build and launch to ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Keeps On Driving To Endeavour Crater Over the past week, Opportunity completed a short bump before the weekend and two long drives after the weekend. The short bump was a 3-meter (10-foot) move on Sol 2397 (Oct. 21, 2010), to position ... more | .. |
 Advanced Ruggedized Robotic Exoskeleton Undergoes Validation Testing Lockheed Martin recently began laboratory testing of an improved next-generation design of its HULC advanced robotic exoskeleton. The testing brings HULC a step closer to readiness to support troops ... more |
| .. |
Robots are lords of the dance at South Korean festival "That's cool!" shouted a packed crowd as five dancing robots flashing red and blue lights started rocking and grooving to popular Korean songs. ... more | .. |
 Shuttle Discovery launch delayed to Wednesday: NASA The final scheduled mission of space shuttle Discovery was delayed another 24 hours to Wednesday as technicians struggled to repair leaks in a pressurization system, NASA said on Saturday. ... more | .. |
 NASA Trapped Mars Rover Finds Evidence of Subsurface Water The ground where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck last year holds evidence that water, perhaps as snow melt, trickled into the subsurface fairly recently and on a continuing basis. ... more | .. |
Leaks delay final launch of space shuttle Discovery The launch of the space shuttle Discovery on its final scheduled mission has been delayed by at least 24 hours until Tuesday because of a leak in a pressurization system, NASA said. ... more |
| Previous Issues | Nov 10 | Nov 09 | Nov 08 | Nov 05 | Nov 04 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
| The contents herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2010 - SpaceDaily. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy statement |
|
Free Newsletters - Delivered Daily Via Email - Space - War - Terra - Energy |
| Buy Advertising | Media Advertising Kit | Editorial & Other Enquiries | Privacy statement |
