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NASA Announces: Dragon To The Space StationHawthorne, CA (SPX) Dec 16, 2011 December 8 2011, marked the one year anniversary of Dragon's first Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) demonstration flight. The flight made history as SpaceX became the only commercial company to successfully return a spacecraft from orbit. This feat had previously been accomplished only by five nations and the European Space Agency. We are now preparing the Dragon spacecraft for yet another historic flight - becoming the first commercial vehicle in history to visit the Internationa ... read more |
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  NASA at work on 'spearfishing' for comets The US space agency is developing a high-tech harpoon that could one day pierce a comet and grab samples for scientists on Earth to study for hints about how the universe formed. ... more | .. |
  Mars-Bound Rover Begins Research in Space NASA's car-sized Curiosity rover has begun monitoring space radiation during its 8-month trip from Earth to Mars. The research will aid in planning for future human missions to the Red Planet. ... more | .. |
 Preparing for human exploration of Mars by measuring background radiation NASA will launch the Mars Science Laboratory on Nov. 26, 2011, to assess the past and present habitability of the Red Planet's surface. The mission will land Curiosity, a rover equipped with 10 inst ... more | .. |
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  Afghanistan 'does not want role in US-Iran hostilities' Afghan territory should not be used in a proxy war between the United States and Iran, President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday after the Islamic republic captured a US drone. ... more | .. |
  Invisible computing comes to Asia tech expo A robotic cook, a colouring book that comes to virtual life and movies that read your mind are some of the innovations on show at a cutting-edge computer technology exhibition in Hong Kong this week. ... more | .. |
  Scientist Travel to Laguna Negra for Titan analog mission A team of scientists has traveled to remote Laguna Negra in the central Andes of Chile to test technologies that could one day be used to explore the lakes of Titan. The Planetary Lake Lander (PLL) ... more | .. |
 System could be 'brain' for Mars rovers British scientists have announced a project they say could allow Mars rovers to roam autonomously around the planet. ... more |
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Trump vows to relaunch Egypt-Ethiopia talks on dam row
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  Peres promotes Israeli moon probe Israeli space enthusiasts are taking part in an international moon-probe competition. President Shimon Peres cut the ribbon Thursday on Space IL, a nonprofit group that will compete for the in ... more | .. |
 Opportunity to Stop and Study Rocks Opportunity is currently exploring one of the candidate sites for winter, on the north end of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 2792 (Dec. 1, 2011), the rover bumped backwards ... more | .. |
 Life possible on 'large parts' of Mars: study Australian scientists who modelled conditions on Mars to examine how much of the red planet was habitable said Monday that "large regions" could sustain life. ... more | .. |
 NASA Announces Launch Date and Milestones for Spacex Flight NASA has announced the launch target for Space Exploration Technologies' (SpaceX) second Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) demonstration flight will be Feb. 7, 2012, pending completi ... more |
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 e2v imaging sensors launched into space on NASA mission to Mars The Mars Science Laboratory is a long-term robotic exploration to assess if Mars is, or ever has been, an environment that can support life. It will be the biggest, most capable robot to ever land o ... more | .. |
  Obama demands Iran return downed US drone President Barack Obama acknowledged for the first time Monday that a US drone was in Iranian hands and said the United States has asked Tehran to return the sophisticated spycraft. ... more | .. |
 SpaceX mission to space station set for February SpaceX will fly its Dragon capsule on an unmanned mission to the International Space Station in February, marking the first-ever bid by a private company to dock at the orbiting lab, NASA said Friday. ... more | .. |
 The ethics of unmanned vehicle warfare The U.S. military has faced criticism over the ethics of the use of the unmanned aerial vehicles as the number of strikes carried out with drones skyrocketed in recent years. ... 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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Opportunity Spent Holiday at 'Turkey Haven' Opportunity spent the Thanksgiving holiday at a location called "Turkey Haven," on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. This particular location provided favorable northe ... more | .. |
 SAM I Am The Mars Science Laboratory is on its way to the red planet, and its rover Curiosity should touch down next summer. If the mission hits paydirt and comes across organic material, then one instrument ... more | .. |
  Counter-IED Market in Decline The latest defence report, The Counter-IED Market 2011-2021: Systems and Technologies for Force Protection, finds a sector that is in decline from unusually high levels of spending in previous years ... more | .. |
 A new, more versatile type of control for autonomous systems The standard controllers used in industrial processes generally have derivative and integrative control actions with whole, preset orders. In contrast, the new type of controller that these scientis ... more |
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 Mars Mission Hoping To Satisfy Curiosity The University of Leicester is to play a key role in NASA's $2.5 billion mission to Mars. Dr. John Bridges of the University's Space Research Centre leads a team from the University of Leicester, th ... more | .. |
  Medical Robotics Helps Satellite Surgery Project Johns Hopkins engineers, recognized as experts in medical robotics, have turned their attention skyward to help NASA with a space dilemma: How can the agency fix valuable satellites that are breakin ... more | .. |
  ONR Helps Undersea Robots Get the Big Picture Scientists have successfully transitioned fundamental research in autonomy to undersea gliders, demonstrating in recent sea tests how the new software, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR ... more | .. |
 Two UT Scientists Search for Potential Habitats for Life on Mars Two University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professors are searching for potential habitats for life on Mars. Linda Kah and Jeffrey Moersch, associate professors of earth and planetary sciences, are an ... more |
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Quantum transport method reads open quantum states
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  Ball Aerospace Selected by NASA to Study Solar Electric Propulsion Spacecraft Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. is one of five companies that will develop mission concepts for demonstrating solar electric propulsion in space, important for NASA's future deep space human e ... more | .. |
 X-37B on Overtime The US Air Force has officially confirmed that the second flight of their X-37B robot spaceplane is on overtime. This small experimental spacecraft, which resembles a car-sized space shuttle, has be ... more | .. |
 Indra Makes In Cadiz A Flight Demonstration Of Its Unmanned Aircrafts Pelicano And Mantis In the framework of the European Robotics Week Indra has made a flight demo of two of its unmanned aircrafts: the Pelican helicopter and the Mantis plane, at Villamartin aerodrome (Cadiz). The ... more | .. |
  Petroleum-eating mushrooms Take a Petri dish containing crude petroleum and it will release a strong odor distinctive of the toxins that make up the fossil fuel. Sprinkle mushroom spores over the Petri dish and let it sit for ... more |
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  At a crossroads who runs the red light In 2008, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2.3 million automobile crashes occurred at intersections across the United States, resulting in some 7,000 deaths. More than ... more | .. |
  MDA to extend its services to support Canadarm2 and Dextre for ISS MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd., a provider of essential information solutions, announced today that it has received contracts worth CA$4.2 million from NASA's Johnson Space Center to exten ... more | .. |
  Princeton technique puts chemistry breakthroughs on the fast track Scientists can now take that "a-ha" moment to go with a method Princeton University researchers developed - and successfully tested - to speed up the chances of an unexpected yet groundbreaking chem ... more | .. |
 NASA launches biggest-ever rover to Mars NASA's Curiosity rover, the biggest, most sophisticated robotic explorer ever built, blasted off Saturday on a journey to Mars, where it will hunt for signs life once existed there. ... more |
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