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March 28, 2012
SPACE TRAVEL
ICAP Ocean Tomo Auctions NASA Software Patent Portfolios
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 28, 2012
The Innovative Partnership Program Office of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., will hold a March 29 auction with ICAP Ocean Tomo LLC of Chicago to sell three NASA-developed technology lots totaling 12 patents. The patent portfolios include technologies applicable to the software-development industry, robotics, artificial intelligence, industrial process control and wireless sensor networks. These patents hold broad value in any field where a need exists to design highly complex ... read more

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STATION NEWS

ESA Cargo Ship Carries Research and Technology Investigations to ISS
When the European Space Agency's third Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo ship arrives at the International Space Station on March 28, it will be packed with more than seven tons of supplies, includin ... more
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WATER WORLD

'Titanic' director dives to Earth's deepest point
"Titanic" director James Cameron returned to the surface Monday after a solo submarine dive to the deepest point in the world's oceans that was hailed as the ultimate test of "man and his machine." ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Study by Haverford College professor reveals unprecedented impact of Deepwater Horizon on deep ocean
Scientists report they have "compelling evidence" that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has impacted deep-sea corals. Their study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Scie ... more
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NANO TECH

'Buckliball' opens new avenue in design of foldable engineering structures
Motivated by the desire to determine the simplest 3-D structure that could take advantage of mechanical instability to collapse reversibly, a group of engineers at MIT and Harvard University were st ... more
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TECH SPACE

Materials inspired by Mother Nature: A 1-pound boat that could float 1,000 pounds
Combining the secrets that enable water striders to walk on water and give wood its lightness and great strength has yielded an amazing new material so buoyant that, in everyday terms, a boat made f ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Robotic Technology Lends More Than Just a Helping Hand
While Robonaut 2 has been busy testing its technology in microgravity aboard the International Space Station, NASA and General Motors have been working together on the ground to find new ways those ... more
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IRON AND ICE

New NEO Website Tool Now Available
Observers, mission planners, and other interested users are invited to use a new website tool to view a list of near-Earth asteroids that are among the most accessible for future robotic or human sp ... more
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Heavy snow in US strands drivers in 100-vehicle crash
Chile wildfires rage for third day, entire towns wiped out
Death toll from floods rises in Mozambique, South Africa
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ROBO SPACE

Jellyfish inspires latest ocean-powered robot
American researchers have created a robotic jellyfish, named Robojelly, which not only exhibits characteristics ideal to use in underwater search and rescue operations, but could, theoretically at l ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Ecliptic RocketCams Capture Action on ISS During Initial Phase of Robotic Refueling Mission Demo
Six rugged RocketCam color video cameras captured close-up views of the first phase of NASA's teleoperated Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) demonstration, conducted March 7-9 on the exterior of the I ... more
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UAV NEWS

NRL Tests Robotic Fueling of Unmanned Surface Vessels
Engineers from the NRL Spacecraft Engineering Department (SED) successfully demonstrate the robotic fluids transfer from a stationary platform to an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) in wave heights gr ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China's Lunar Docking
Manufacturing has begun on China's first lunar lander, Chang'e 3, which is expected to launch in 2013. This spacecraft will release a rover onto the surface. If all goes well, we can expect the Ch ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

SpaceX, NASA readies for April 30 launch to ISS
Preparations for the April 30 launch of the SpaceX's Dragon commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station are underway without major problems, a top NASA official said Tuesday. ... more
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STATION NEWS

Astrium: double delivery for ATV-3 Edoardo Amaldi launch
Astrium, Europe's leading space company, is completing the mission preparation for the Automated Transfer Vehicle ATV-3. On March 23, 2012, the unmanned cargo resupply spacecraft named after the Ita ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Students and Robots Take to the Courts in Competition
If you had chosen Cimarron Memorial High School, Orcutt Academy High School and Dos Pueblos High School Engineering Academy as your top picks in this past weekend's "Robotics March Madness Bracket," ... more
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MILTECH

Ethical considerations of military-funded neuroscience
The United States military and intelligence communities have developed a close relationship with the scientific establishment. In particular, they fund and utilize an array of neuroscience applicati ... more
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Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
Almost half of Kyiv without heat, power, after Russian attack
Denmark proposes NATO surveillance mission for Greenland
Military aircraft to arrive in Greenland for 'long-planned' activities: US-Canadian command
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TECH SPACE

NASA and CSA Robotic Operations Advance Satellite Servicing
NASA's Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) experiment aboard the International Space Station has demonstrated remotely controlled robots and specialized tools can perform precise satellite-servicing tas ... more
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SPACEMART

Call for a Small mission opportunity in ESA's Science Programme
Through the present Call the Director of Science and Robotic Exploration solicits from the broad scientific community in ESA's Member States proposals for the competitive selection of mission concep ... more
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STATION NEWS

DARPA Makes Room On ISS For Programmers
Students, professionals, public sought to create algorithm enabling capture of objects in space. The absence of gravity presents a significant challenge for precision robotic maneuvering and operati ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Robots in record-distance ocean swim
Four wave-powered robots have set a record by swimming more than 3,200 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean, their U.S.-based developer said. ... more
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TECH SPACE

UMass Amherst polymer scientists, physicists develop new way to shape thin gel sheets
Inspired by nature's ability to shape a petal, and building on simple techniques used in photolithography and printing, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a new to ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Roboticists Gear Up For Horizon 2020
THE European Robotics Forum, the largest Robot industry and academia gathering in the EU, was held this year at Odense, Denmark. Delegates heard a renewed commitment to Robotic R and D from the Euro ... more
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FLOATING STEEL

NRL Designs Robot for Shipboard Firefighting
In both war and peacetime scenarios, fire in the shipboard environment is serious and frequently results in excessive damage and high repair costs because the fire is not detected or controlled adeq ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Investigation of Earth Catastrophes From the ISS: Uragan Program
The Uragan program aboard the Russian segment of the International Space Station uses digital photography to study Earth's natural resources by monitoring catastrophes, both natural and human made. ... more
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Russia says US has not released crew from detained tanker
Inside China's buzzing AI scene year after DeepSeek shock
EU wants to keep Chinese suppliers out of critical infrastructure
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UAV NEWS

UUAV conducts 7-hour mission
Germany's Atlas Elektronik reports that its SeaCat autonomous unmanned underwater vehicle has successfully completed a seven-hour mission. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Rep. Schiff Applauds Decision to Reject NASA Request to Divert Mars Funds
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), a member of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, applauded the decision of Subcommittee Chairman Frank Wolf (R-VA) to reject a fiscal 2012 repr ... more
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WAR REPORT

Russia slays Georgian 'monsters' in Kremlin-backed film
A lone heroine fights off giant monsters and sinister masked warriors in "August 8," a Kremlin-funded blockbuster that gives the Russian view of the country's 2008 war with Georgia. ... more
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FLORA AND FAUNA

Robotic Dinosaurs On the Way for Next-Gen Paleontology
Researchers at Drexel University are bringing the latest technological advancements in 3-D printing to the study of ancient life. Using scale models of real fossils, for the first time, they will be ... more
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TECH SPACE

Researchers 'Print' Polymers That Bend Into 3-D Shapes
Christian Santangelo, Ryan Hayward and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently employed photographic techniques and polymer science to develop a new technique for printing two ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

What Next for X-37B
On March 5, the X-37B robot spaceplane celebrated a birthday in orbit. This mysterious, semi-classified spacecraft is still up there, and it's not clear when it ... more
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STATION NEWS

Though Shuttle Retired, ISS Still Open For Business, Research Going Strong
The pace of research aboard the International Space Station is accelerating, even though the space shuttles used to build it have been retired. The shuttles' huge cargo carrying capacity was needed ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Humanoid robot will fight shipboard fires
U.S. scientists say they're developing a humanoid robot to fight fires aboard warships, moving autonomously to handle firefighting tasks usually done by humans. ... more
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