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NASA 'Smart SPHERES' Tested on ISSHuntsville, AL (SPX) Dec 22, 2011 In November, a free-flying robot on the International Space Station successfully gathered and delivered motion data to its astronaut handler for the first time via a new smartphone controller. The Human Exploration Telerobotics project, one of NASA's new, high-value Technology Demonstration Missions, equipped the compact, free-flying satellites - known as Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient Experimental Satellites, or SPHERES - with a Samsung Nexus S handset that features Google's open-so ... read more |
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  New Findings About the Supernova of a Generation An international team of scientists, including astrophysicists from UC Santa Barbara, has discovered that a supernova that exploded in August - dubbed the supernova of a generation - was a "white dw ... more | .. |
  A Brighter Future for Spaceflight Recent times have been troubling for the global spaceflight community. We have witnessed the end of the venerable Shuttle program, without an operational replacement vehicle for NASA. America's spac ... more | .. |
  New system may one day steer microrobots through blood vessels for disease treatment Microscopic-scale medical robots represent a promising new type of therapeutic technology. As envisioned, the microbots, which are less than one millimeter in size, might someday be able to travel t ... more | .. |
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  A Look below the Surface At Laguna Negra 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 | .. |
  Fukushima reactors may take 40 years to dismantle Japan said Wednesday that decommissioning the tsunami-wrecked reactors at Fukushima could take as long as 40 years, with melted nuclear fuel possibly stuck where it is for a quarter of a century. ... more | .. |
  Areva's Finnish EPR reactor delayed until August 2014 The start-up of Finland's fifth nuclear reactor, being built by the French-German consortium Areva-Siemens, has been delayed until August 2014, Finnish power company Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Supernova Caught in the Act On August 24, 2011, astronomers discovered a nearby Type Ia supernova - the earliest detection ever - with help from a machine-based real-time classification system. The early detection and close pr ... more |
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Scientists plan deep-sea expedition to probe 'dark oxygen'
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  Opportunity at One of its Two Winter Spots Opportunity is positioned at one of the candidate sites for winter, on the north end of "Cape York" on the rim of Endeavour Crater. There are two candidate sites for winter havens that indicate suff ... more | .. |
  NASA Announces: Dragon To The Space Station 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 commercia ... more | .. |
  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 |
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 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 | .. |
  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 |
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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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 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 | .. |
  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 |
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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 |
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US finalizes rule for deep-sea mining beyond its waters
Japan restarts world's biggest nuclear plant
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 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 | .. |
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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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