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Payload Orbital Delivery System for DARPA Phoenix Mission to be Developed by MDA

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. ("MDA" or the "Company"), a global communications and information company, announced today that it has been authorized to proceed with development of a Payload Orbital Delivery system (POD) for the DARPA Phoenix mission. The expected contract value for full development of the flight system is US$6 million.

22 Nov 2013

New Research Report on US DoD Unmanned Aerial Systems Market

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Analysis of the US DoD Unmanned Aerial Systems Market

19 Nov 2013

Swisscube Continues Mission Even After 22,000 Trips Around the Planet

Four years after its launch, Swisscube, the small satellite developed by EPFL’s Space Center, is still in operation. Some of the technological choices made and considered audacious at the time have yielded valuable lessons for building future spacecraft.

19 Nov 2013

Northrop Grumman, HCT Sign MOU for Fourth Annual Unmanned Aircraft Innovation Challenge

Northrop Grumman Corporation and the United Arab Emirates' Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to continue their highly successful science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) partnership known as Innovation Challenge into 2014.

19 Nov 2013

NASA to Launch MAVEN to Explore Martian Atmosphere

On Monday, November 18, NASA is set to launch MAVEN [http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/maven/overview/index.html] (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution), a small scientific satellite, to do some chemical meter-reading in the Martian atmosphere.

18 Nov 2013

Fairfield Aerospace to Develop Command and Control Systems for UAVs

Fairfield Aerospace is making progress raising funds to develop a command and control system for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles enabling them to fly in unsegregated airspace. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are now everywhe...

15 Nov 2013

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Marks 200 Terabit Milestone

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has overhauled understanding of the Red Planet since 2006, has passed 200 terabits in the amount of science data returned. The data returned by the mission alone is more than three times the total data returned via NASA's Deep Space Network for all the other missions managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., over the past 10 years.

12 Nov 2013

Newly Proposed Technology for Utilizing In-Orbit Robots to Capture Malfunctioning Satellites

Using an in-orbit robot to capturing a malfunctioning satellite that is tumbling out of control is currently just a theoretical idea. However, research inspired by nature to be published in the forthcoming issue of International Journal of Mechanisms and Robotic Systems, could take us a small step towards making such science fiction science fact.

6 Nov 2013

Swinburne Robotics Students to Develop Dual Seater Electric Powered Parachute

Swinburne University of Technology is entering the flying electric vehicle research space with work about to begin on building a dual seater electric powered parachute.

4 Nov 2013

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Begins Climbing Solander Point

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover has begun climbing "Solander Point," the northern tip of the tallest hill it has encountered in the mission's nearly 10 Earth years on Mars.

25 Oct 2013