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Lockheed Martin, AeroVironment Partner to Develop Integrated Solutions for UAS Markets

AeroVironment, Inc., a leader in unmanned aircraft system solutions, and the Lockheed Martin Corporation, one of the world’s largest aerospace companies and a leading systems integrator, today announced an agreement to jointly pursue opportunities in unmanned aircraft system (UAS) development.

From AeroVironment, Inc. 10 Feb 2014

NASA Curiosity Team to Likely Drive Rover Westward

The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover will likely drive the rover westward over a dune and across a valley with fewer sharp rock hazards than alternative routes.

5 Feb 2014

Climbing, Gecko-Like Robot by SFU Researchers Can be Useful in Space

The sticky feet of a climbing, gecko-like robot developed by SFU researchers could be useful in space, international tests show.

6 Jan 2014

AERIAL ASSIST Game Revealed by Dean Kamen to Nearly 70,000 High-School Students

Inventor and FIRST® Founder Dean Kamen launched the 2014 FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC®) season today with the Kickoff of a new robotics game called AERIAL ASSISTSM before a crowd of 400 people at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, N.H., hometown of FIRST Headquarters. Nearly 70,000 high-school students on more than 2,700 teams in 92 cities around the globe joined the 2014 Kickoff via live NASA-TV broadcast and webcast.

6 Jan 2014

The Liverpool Robotic Telescope Offers New Insight into Energetic Cosmic Explosions

The Liverpool Telescope, owned and operated by LJMU’s Astrophysics Research Institute was fitted with an instrument named RINGO2, which Professor Carole Mundell's Gamma Ray Burst team designed to detect any preferred direction, called polarization, in the vibration of light waves from burst afterglows.

11 Dec 2013

Lockheed Martin Selected by Mars One for Mission Concept Study for its Mars Lander Software

Mars One has selected Lockheed Martin to develop a mission concept study for its Mars lander spacecraft. The lander will be based on the successful 2007 NASA Phoenix spacecraft and will be a technology demonstrator.

From Lockheed Martin Corporation 11 Dec 2013

Energid to Provide Robotic Control and Simulation Software for DARPA's Phoenix Program

Energid Technologies Corporation has been awarded follow-on funding to provide software for robotic control and simulation to DARPA's Phoenix program. Phoenix seeks to leverage Energid's software to redefine how satellites can be built and maintained through assembly and repair in orbit.

9 Dec 2013

NASA Debuts Human Exploration Rover Challenge for Students

NASA is debuting a new engineering design challenge to engage students worldwide in the next phase of human space exploration. The NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge is a more complex follow-on to the successful NASA Great Moonbuggy Race.

2 Dec 2013

Moon Express Software Successful in Free Flight Test of NASA's ‘Mighty Eagle’ Prototype Robotic Lander

Moon Express, a commercial lunar enterprise, announces a successful free flight test of its lunar lander software on NASA's "Mighty Eagle" prototype robotic lander.

27 Nov 2013

Honeybee Robotics Develops Two Unique Flight subsystems for DARPA On-Site Assembly Program

Honeybee Robotics Spacecraft Mechanisms Corporation today announced it has begun developing flight models of its unique telerobotic end effectors for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Phoenix on-orbit satellite assembly program. Phase II of the project, which intends to lead up to design, assembly and validation of the flight units, builds on work the company started in July 2012.

From Honeybee Robotics 25 Nov 2013

Aerospace Robotics News

Lockheed Martin, AeroVironment Partner to Develop Integrated Solutions for UAS Markets

NASA Curiosity Team to Likely Drive Rover Westward

Climbing, Gecko-Like Robot by SFU Researchers Can be Useful in Space

AERIAL ASSIST Game Revealed by Dean Kamen to Nearly 70,000 High-School Students

The Liverpool Robotic Telescope Offers New Insight into Energetic Cosmic Explosions

Lockheed Martin Selected by Mars One for Mission Concept Study for its Mars Lander Software

Energid to Provide Robotic Control and Simulation Software for DARPA's Phoenix Program

NASA Debuts Human Exploration Rover Challenge for Students

Moon Express Software Successful in Free Flight Test of NASA's ‘Mighty Eagle’ Prototype Robotic Lander

Honeybee Robotics Develops Two Unique Flight subsystems for DARPA On-Site Assembly Program

What This Drone Detected Over Greenland Has Climate Scientists Rethinking Everything

NASA’s Perseverance Captures Rare Dust Devil Collision on Mars

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover is Testing Spacesuit Materials on Mars

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