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NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Provides New Gravity and Topography Results from Saturnian Moon

An analysis of gravity and topography data from the Saturnian moon Titan obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft suggests there could be something unexpected about the moon's outer ice shell.

29 Aug 2013

NASA's Curiosity Captures Images of Solar Eclipse by Phobos

Images taken with a telephoto-lens camera on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity catch the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos, passing directly in front of the sun -- the sharpest images of a solar eclipse ever taken at Mars.

29 Aug 2013

Health Robotics Moves Forward in PP&P’s National Survey

Clearly surpassing Intelligent Hospital Systems-RIVA and Baxter-IntelliFill, Health Robotics considerably improved from prior year's 2012 PP&P's National Survey, leapfrogging both IHS-RIVA and IntelliFill, as independently reported by PP&P at:

28 Aug 2013

Second Dream Chaser Captive-Carry Test Successfully Completed

NASA partner Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) of Louisville, Colo., successfully completed a captive-carry test of the Dream Chaser spacecraft Thursday, Aug. 22, at the agency's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif.

26 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

Aurora Flight Sciences Delivers Lightweight Space Suit Simulator to NASA

Aurora Flight Sciences announced today that it has delivered a completed Space Suit Simulator (S3) to NASA following the successful completion of a Phase II Small Business Innovative Research effort.

20 Aug 2013

Registration Open for 2014 Sample Return Robot Prize Competition

In pursuit of new technological solutions for America's space program and our nation's future, NASA and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Mass., have opened registration for the $1.5 million 2014 Sample Return Robot prize competition.

9 Aug 2013

New Hardware Outfits NASA's Robotic Refueling Mission Module for Satellite-Servicing Activities

It may be called the Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM), but NASA's RRM was built to demonstrate much more than the clever ways space robots can fill up satellites.

5 Aug 2013

NASA Curiosity Rover to Mark One Year on Red Planet

NASA's Curiosity rover will mark one year on Mars next week and has already achieved its main science goal of revealing ancient Mars could have supported life. The mobile laboratory also is guiding designs for future planetary missions.

5 Aug 2013

NASA Leverages Connext DDS Software for Human Exploration Telerobotics Project

Real-Time Innovations (RTI), the real-time infrastructure software company, today announced that NASA is leveraging the flexible service parameters and durability of Connext™ DDS software to support human-to-robot communication between Earth and space.

1 Aug 2013