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Tugboats in SpaceSydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 26, 2011 Rendezvous and docking in orbit is tricky. Take a huge, complex target like the International Space Station, and the task becomes even trickier. The problems of getting spacecraft to dock with ISS has been highlighted often in recent years. There are issues with the reliability of new or modified vehicles, as well as traffic control problems with the Shuttle and other spacecraft going to ISS at the same time. It's ironic. We've been doing rendezvous and docking for decades, but it now seems more difficult than ever. There are two ways of getting a spacecraft to the ISS - a controlled docking with one of the station's ports - or the "valet parking" model where you stop close by the station before being captured with a robot arm. ... read more |
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  Searching for dark matter and antimatter The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) will be located outside the International Space Station (ISS) and will use its various detectors to seek cosmic radiation in space. On 29 April 2011, at 21:47 C ... more | .. |
  Researchers build time machine to visually explore space and time Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have leveraged the latest browser technology to create GigaPan Time Machine, a system that enables viewers to explore gigapixel-scale, ... more | .. |
  Japan says Fukushima 'different from Chernobyl' Japan said on Tuesday, the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, that its six-week-old Fukushima nuclear crisis was "different in nature" from the events in Ukraine. ... more | .. |
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  Japan Livedoor tycoon Horie to be jailed Japan's brash Livedoor Internet tycoon Takafumi Horie will be jailed after losing his final appeal against a conviction for accounting fraud, a judicial official said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Underwater robots join search for tsunami victims Two underwater robots operated by a joint US-Japanese team have searched a bay in northeast Japan for bodies of victims swept away by a tsunami nearly six weeks ago, officials said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Paparazzi In Space For the second time, an attempt to take a photograph of a Space Shuttle docked with the International Space Station has been thwarted. Russia has again declined to undock a Soyuz spacecraft for a ph ... more | .. |
 CSA Celebrates A Decade Of Success With Canadarm2 Ten years ago, Canadarm2 was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. A larger, more robust successor to the Shuttle's Canadarm, Canadarm2 has provided a ... more |
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China's birth rate falls to lowest on record
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S. Korean firm unveils robot playmate for kids South Korean telecoms operator KT on Wednesday rolled out a robot playmate for children in a move aimed at cashing in on the potentially lucrative industry. ... more | .. |
  Introducing World's First Intubation Robot First there was McSleepy. Now it's time to introduce the first intubation robot operated by remote control. This robotic system named The Kepler Intubation System (KIS), and developed by Dr. Thomas ... more | .. |
  Robot readings in Japan nuke plant 'harsh' Remote-control robots at the quake-damaged Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan have measured a "harsh environment" for humans to work in, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Roberto Vittori's DAMA Mission To ISS ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori is set to fly on the next Space Shuttle mission in late April to deliver the large Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer science payload to the International Space Station. Dedic ... more |
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  High-tech weapons sow fears of chip sabotage As NATO countries weigh whether to arm Libya's rebels, military planners may give a thought to adding a remote "kill switch" to some weapons to keep them out of the wrong hands, experts say. ... more | .. |
  Clinton vows full support for disaster-hit Japan US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged full support for quake-hit Japan on Sunday as the operator of its stricken nuclear plant said it expects to achieve "cold shutdown" in six to nine months. ... more | .. |
 TEPCO president under fire from Japan lawmakers Japanese lawmakers on Monday grilled the president of the company at the centre of the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl, demanding he take responsibility for the disaster. ... more | .. |
  TEPCO president under fire from Japan lawmakers Japanese lawmakers on Monday grilled the president of the company at the centre of the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl, demanding he take responsibility for the disaster. ... more |
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Greenland truce or Trump win? Davos "framework" pauses tariffs but not the takeover boasts
Greenlanders doubtful over Trump resolution
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  No Fleet Future For X-37B The second flight of the US Air Force's X-37B spaceplane has been underway for weeks. During this time, the USAF has been fairly quiet about its operations, but this hasn't stopped amateur satellite ... more | .. |
  Mars Rover's 'Gagarin' Moment Applauded Exploration A flat, light-toned rock on Mars visited by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover in 2005 informally bears the name of the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, who rode into orbit in the Soviet Union's Vosto ... more | .. |
  Drone 'friendly fire' kills two US troops: officials A drone missile strike killed a US Marine and a Navy corpsman last week by mistake, in what appeared to be the first instance US troops had been killed in a "friendly fire" incident involving an unmanned aircraft, defense officials said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Naveen Jain Co-Founder And Chairman Of Moon Express Naveen Jain shared with colleagues at the annual Explorers Club Awards Dinner in New York that he is Co-Founder and Chairman of Moon Express, Inc., winner of a $10M NASA commercial lunar contract an ... more |
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  Gerd Gruppe Takes Office As Director Of DLR Space Administration Gerd Gruppe took up his post as Director of Space Administration at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), joining DLR's Executive Board and filling a vacancy ... more | .. |
  NASA's JWST Marks Milestone With Completion Of Huge Assembly Stand For Flight Optics A giant structural steel frame used to assemble the eye of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been completed by Northrop Grumman teammate ITT at a facility in Syracuse, N.Y. Northrop Grumman is l ... more | .. |
 Gagarin anniversary: Are manned missions a waste of space? On Tuesday, the world will be awash with talk of courage and vision as it looks back on 50 years of manned space flight, a trail blazed by Yuri Gagarin's 108-minute trip around the planet. ... more | .. |
  Technique For Letting Brain Talk To Computers Now Tunes In Speech Patients with a temporary surgical implant have used regions of the brain that control speech to "talk" to a computer for the first time, manipulating a cursor on a computer screen simply by saying ... more |
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Quantum transport method reads open quantum states
Scientists uncover new quantum state that could power future technologies
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  Getting Closer To Mars Sending astronauts to Mars has been the ultimate objective of human spaceflight. But it's always been elusive. We started the space age with the knowledge that it would require a lot of preparation, ... more | .. |
 The Benefits Of Space Exploration The dawning of the space age opened our eyes to the universe and the planet we inhabit, and the ability of humankind to venture beyond Earth's atmosphere triggered a revolution in science - on this ... more | .. |
  Merging Gaming And Simulation Tools To Create Models For Border Security With funding from the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection (CBP), researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a high-fidelity simulation and analysis progra ... more | .. |
 Space Debris No Threat To ISS The Expedition 27 crew members aboard the International Space Station did not need to take shelter in their Soyuz spacecraft when a piece of debris from a Chinese satellite made its closest pass at ... more |
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  Dawn Keeps Rolling Along Three and a half years after launch, Dawn continues its travels around the sun, maneuvering to take the same orbital path as Vesta. Following its usual pattern, the spacecraft has spent most of the ... more | .. |
 Three New ISS Crew Members Launch From Kazakhstan NASA astronaut Ron Garan and Russian cosmonauts Andrey Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyaev launched in their Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 6:18 p.m. EDT Monda ... more | .. |
US lawmakers eye plan to compete with Asia on robotics US senators unveiled an initiative Monday to try to narrow the US gap with Asian nations more advanced in robotics, proposing exposing American high school students to a curriculum heavier on technology and science. ... more |
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