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UNISONO Communication Solution Enables Orbiting Space Station to Maintain Contact with Robots on a Planet

The international UNISONO project, which is coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, has developed a communication solution that can allow orbiting space station in outer space to maintain uninterrupted contact with robots working on the surface of a planet.

29 Oct 2015

Winners of 2015 Sample Return Robot Challenge to be Honored by NASA and U.S. Senate

The West Virginia Mountaineers, winners of the 2015 Sample Return Robot Challenge, will be recognized for their achievement at an event from 3 to 4 p.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 21, in Room 385 of the Senate Russell Office Building in Washington. Media are invited to attend and meet the team members.

15 Sep 2015

Engineers Employ Friction-Stir Welding to Connect Orion Spacecraft’s Tunnel and Forward Bulkhead

Lockheed Martin and NASA engineers have successfully welded the Orion spacecraft’s tunnel and forward bulkhead together.

10 Sep 2015

Engineers Perform Final Decontamination on Orion Crew Module

The Orion crew module flown 3,600 miles into space during Exploration Flight Test-1 has arrived to the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company headquarters in Littleton, Colorado.

3 Sep 2015

Trimble’s Multirotor Unmanned Aircraft System Transforms Geospatial-Based Mapping, Inspection Applications

Trimble announced today the ZX5 Multirotor Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), a new aerial imaging and workflow solution that captures and processes geo-referenced photo and video data for mapping, agriculture and inspection applications.

27 Aug 2015

Northrop Grumman, U.S. Navy Demonstrate Endurance Capabilities with MQ-8C Fire Scout Unmanned Helicopter

Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Navy successfully demonstrated endurance capabilities with the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter. On a planned 10+ hour flight and range out to 150 nautical miles flight from Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu; the MQ-8C Fire Scout achieved 11 hours with over an hour of fuel in reserve.

27 Aug 2015

NASA's Johnson Space Center Awards $101.9 Million Contract Extension to Raytheon

NASA's Johnson Space Center has awarded to Raytheon Company a contract extension with a potential value of $101.9 million. Raytheon will continue to provide operations, maintenance and engineering services for up to four years to NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab (NBL) and Space Vehicle Mockup Facility (SVMF), facilities that are critical to safe human spaceflight.

24 Aug 2015

NASA Researchers Develop Gecko-Inspired Grippers for Space Applications

A piece of tape can only be used a few times before the adhesion wears off and it can no longer hold two surfaces together. But researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, are working on the ultimate system of stickiness, inspired by geckos.

14 Aug 2015

Lockheed Martin Deploys First Components of UAS Traffic Management System

As Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) take to the skies, it is essential for safety that UAS operators and pilots are aware of each other.

4 Aug 2015

Windbot Robotic Probe Could Stay Aloft in Planet's Atmosphere Without Wings

Among designers of robotic probes to explore the planets, there is certainly no shortage of clever ideas. There are concepts for robots that are propelled by waves in the sea. There are ideas for tumbleweed bots driven by wind, rolling across Antarctica or Mars. Recently a team of engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, wondered if a probe could be buoyant in the clouds of Earth or a distant gas giant planet, like Jupiter.

24 Jul 2015