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NASA's Mars Rover Takes Advantage of 340th Martian Day for Long Drive

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity drove twice as far on July 21 as on any other day of the mission so far: 109.7 yards (100.3 meters).

24 Jul 2013

Unmanned Aircraft Manufacturer, Halberd, Seeks New Location for Further Expansion

Halberd Corporation is actively and aggressively seeking out a new office and R&D location for further expansion. In addition to the office and R&D search, Halberd has a variety of highly trained personnel ready to be implemented.

23 Jul 2013

Persistent Systems to Display Advances in Machine to Machine Communication at AUVSI Unmanned Systems Conference

PERSISTENT SYSTEMS, a revolutionary technology company that specializes in mission critical communications, will be displaying their industry-leading developments in machine to machine communication at AUVSI 2013.

23 Jul 2013

NASA's Cassini Spacecraft and MESSENGER Probe Capture Images of Earth

Color and black-and-white images of Earth taken by two NASA interplanetary spacecraft July 19 show our planet and its moon as bright beacons from millions of miles away in space.

23 Jul 2013

Heriot-Watt and Edinburgh Universities Secure Funding for Robotics, Autonomous Systems Research

Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh have jointly secured £6 million of UK government funding for research into robotics and autonomous systems.

22 Jul 2013

Cassini Spacecraft Robotic Photographer Takes Pictures of the Earth

From its perch in the Saturn system, NASA's Cassini spacecraft took pictures of Earth from nearly 900 million miles (nearly 1.5 billion kilometers) today. To celebrate the first time the public has had advance notice that Earth's portrait was being taken from interplanetary distances, scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and other Earthlings elsewhere gathered to wave at Saturn on July 19. Cassini took pictures of Earth between 2:27 and 2:42 p.m. PDT today.

22 Jul 2013

New Slocum Autonomous Underwater Gliders Ready for Deployment in the Gulf of Mexico

After tests about 40 miles offshore Galveston, Texas A&M oceanographers declared two new Slocum gliders ready to deploy in the Gulf of Mexico.

20 Jul 2013

Northrop Grumman Delivers Upgraded MQ-8 Fire Scout Unmanned System to the U.S. Navy

The U.S. Navy got its first look at the upgraded MQ-8 Fire Scout unmanned system when Northrop Grumman Corporation delivered its first MQ-8C system this month.

20 Jul 2013

Harwin Connectors Deliver Reliable Power and Signal Transmission for UWE Underwater Robot

Harwin, the leading hi-rel connector and SMT board hardware manufacturer, has announced that a prize-winning underwater robot project, designed and built for the international SAUC-E (Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge – Europe) program by students from the University of the West of England (UWE), depends on hi-rel Datamate connectors to deliver reliable power and signal transmission, even in challenging conditions.

19 Jul 2013

NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Completes More Than a Kilometer of Driving

The latest drive by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover brought the total distance that the rover has driven on Mars to more than 1 kilometer. One kilometer is about 0.62 mile.

18 Jul 2013