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WISE Spacecraft Built by Ball Aerospace to Resume NEOWISE Asteroid Hunting Mission

The Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft will emerge from its two-year hibernation next month to resume its near-Earth object NEOWISE asteroid hunting mission.

From Ball Aerospace 22 Aug 2013

NASA Unveils Space Exploration Roadmap

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Tuesday formally welcomed the eight newest candidates to the astronaut corps and unveiled a space exploration roadmap that makes clear the global community is working together on a unified deep space exploration strategic plan, with robotic and human missions to destinations that include near-Earth asteroids, the moon and Mars.

21 Aug 2013

Media Invited to See NASA’s Hurricane Mission with Global Hawk Unmanned Scientific Aircraft

NASA is inviting media on Tuesday, Sept. 10, to see two Global Hawk unmanned scientific aircraft that will fly over the Atlantic Ocean to study tropical cyclones and their growth process.

21 Aug 2013

Raytheon Intercepts Low QE 107mm Rocket in Second Series of Guided Test Vehicle Flight Tests

Raytheon Company successfully intercepted and destroyed a low quadrant elevation (QE) 107mm rocket as part of the second series of guided test vehicle (GTV) flight tests of the Accelerated Improved Intercept Initiative (AI3) program.

20 Aug 2013

Campers Learn to Assemble and Operate Remote-Controlled Unmanned Quad Copters

More than two dozen high school students learned how to fly right as technology entrepreneurs during a four-week summer camp at The University of Texas at Dallas.

19 Aug 2013

New Series of Sky-Watching Images of Mars Moon from NASA's Curiosity Rover

The larger of the two moons of Mars, Phobos, passes directly in front of the other, Deimos, in a new series of sky-watching images from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.

17 Aug 2013

NASA Selects Possible Flight Demonstration Proposals for Future Space Missions

NASA has selected for possible flight demonstration 10 proposals from six U.S. states for reusable, suborbital technology payloads and vehicle capability enhancements with the potential to revolutionize future space missions.

17 Aug 2013

NASA Provides Mission Status Report on Mars Rover Opportunity

NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is studying the area of contact between a rock layer formed in acidic wet conditions long ago and an even older one that may be from a more neutral wet environment.

17 Aug 2013

New Maritime RobotX Challenge to Take Place in October 2014, in Singapore

RoboNation is gearing up for a larger, more competitive, global event that is entering the field of student robotics competitions, U.S. Navy officials announced Aug. 14.

16 Aug 2013

US Army Places Order for AeroVironment’s Raven UAS

AeroVironment, Inc. today announced that on August 13, 2013 the company received a $13,487,240 order from the United States Army. The order — the final portion of a contract valued at $59.6 million — includes RQ-11B Raven unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), miniature gimbaled payloads and initial spares packages, and is funded from the Army's fiscal 2012 procurement budget. Delivery of systems, spares and payloads is scheduled for completion by September 15, 2013.

From AeroVironment, Inc. 16 Aug 2013