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India-Australia Partnership Launches Bio Robots in the Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean contains vast fisheries and mineral resources that are of strategic importance to both Australia and India. It also plays a direct role in driving the climates of its surrounding regions – home to more than 16 per cent of the world's population.

29 Jan 2014

NASA to Host Media Teleconference for Lunar CATALYST Commercial Lunar Lander Initiative

NASA will host a media teleconference at 12:30 p.m. EST Monday, Jan. 27, to discuss the Lunar Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown (Lunar CATALYST) initiative.

25 Jan 2014

Northrop Grumman Passes Spacecraft Critical Design Review for James Webb Space Telescope

Northrop Grumman Corporation successfully passed the last significant mission design milestone for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the spacecraft Critical Design Review (CDR), five months ahead of schedule, following the replan.

25 Jan 2014

GeoDragon Sensor System Integrated on Arcturus UAV

The GeoDragon sensor system has now been integrated and flown on an Arcturus UAV T-20 Tier II unmanned aerial vehicle. The sensor system is enclosed in a wing-mounted pod and is capable of high resolution 2-D and 3-D image capture. The sensor was designed by Urban Robotics in Portland, Oregon. The aircraft was built by Arcturus UAV in Rohnert Park, California.

25 Jan 2014

Liveable Mud Found on Mars

Some of the oldest minerals ever analysed by NASA’s Mars Opportunity Rover show that around four billion years ago Mars had liquid water so fresh it could have supported life.

24 Jan 2014

Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Demonstration Unmanned Aircraft Surpass 10,000 Combat Flying Hours

The Northrop Grumman Corporation built unmanned demonstrator aircraft used for maritime surveillance missions by the U.S. Navy surpassed 10,000 combat flying hours supporting intelligence-gathering missions in the Middle East.

24 Jan 2014

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity Confirms Ancient Wet Environment

New findings from rock samples collected and examined by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity have confirmed an ancient wet environment that was milder and older than the acidic and oxidizing conditions told by rocks the rover examined previously.

24 Jan 2014

Northrop Grumman, GA-ASI Report Electronic Attack Capabilities of Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper UAV

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI), a leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), tactical reconnaissance radars, and electro-optic surveillance systems, and Northrop Grumman Corporation, a leading global security company, today announced the second successful demonstration of Predator® B/MQ-9 Reaper's Electronic Attack capability featuring Northrop Grumman's new Pandora Electronic Warfare (EW) system at the U.S. Marine Corps' (USMC) Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course held at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Yuma on October 22.

23 Jan 2014

Global UAV Market Poised to Achieve Significant Growth by 2016

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "2013 Report on the International Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Market - Forecasts to 2016" report to their offering.

23 Jan 2014

NASA Receives 58 Science Instrument Proposals for Mars 2020 Rover

NASA has received 58 proposals for science and exploration technology instruments to fly aboard the agency's next Mars rover in 2020, twice the usual number submitted for instrument competitions in the recent past, and an indicator of the extraordinary interest in exploration of the Red Planet.

22 Jan 2014