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University of North Dakota Offers First-of-its-Kind Undergraduate Degree in UAS Operations

In a timely and innovative move, the University of North Dakota (UND)—offering the nation's first and only fully accredited undergraduate degree in unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operations—has formed the nation's first UAS Research Compliance Committee in anticipation of federal plans to regulate related privacy issues.

15 Nov 2012

NASA, ESA to Control an Educational Rover Using Experimental Interplanetary Internet

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully have used an experimental version of interplanetary Internet to control an educational rover from the International Space Station. The experiment used NASA's Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) protocol to transmit messages and demonstrate technology that one day may enable Internet-like communications with space vehicles and support habitats or infrastructure on another planet.

9 Nov 2012

New Navigation Method for Space Robots Earns Top Honors for Research Students

Months of dedication and hard work in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) paid off tonight for three students named National Finalists in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology, the nation's premier research competition.

5 Nov 2012

NASA's Curiosity Rover Takes Steps to Understand Martian Atmospheric Changes

NASA's car-sized rover, Curiosity, has taken significant steps toward understanding how Mars may have lost much of its original atmosphere.

3 Nov 2012

Mars Rover Team Participates in Space Frontiers Lecture Series at Rice University

For starters, here are three things you probably don’t know about the latest Mars rover, the car-sized rover that landed on the red planet in August:

3 Nov 2012

Autonomous Flying Robot Maneuvers around Obstacles

Cornell researchers have created an autonomous flying robot that is as smart as a bird when it comes to maneuvering around obstacles.

1 Nov 2012

Searchable, Crowdsourced Map of the Global Robotics Industry

Robotics AlleyTM, a robotics industry public-private initiative based in Minnesota, has unveiled the world’s first searchable, crowdsourced map of the booming global robotics industry. Already populated with more than 1,300 robotics-related organizations from around the world, TheRoboticsMap.com integrates best practices from open-source intelligence gathering and crowdsourcing to build a flexible, ever-expanding map of robotics organizations, including manufacturers, suppliers, research organizations and university robotics departments.

1 Nov 2012

Teleconference Update on NASA Curiosity Rover's Mission to Mars' Gale Crater

NASA will host a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. PDT Tuesday, Oct. 30, to provide an update about the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater.

31 Oct 2012

Curiosity Expedition Finds Similarity between Cuatro Ciénegas in Mexico and Gale Crater on Mars

Millions of years ago fire and water forged the gypsum rocks locked in at Cuatro Ciénegas, a Mexican valley similar to the Martian crater where NASA's Rover Curiosity roams. A team of researchers have now analysed the bacterial communities that have survived in these inhospitable springs since the beginning of life on Earth.

31 Oct 2012

SpaceX's Dragon Space Station Reenters Earth

NASA Television will provide live coverage of the release and departure of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft from the International Space Station on Sunday, Oct. 28. Coverage will begin at 6 a.m. CDT and conclude approximately three hours later after Dragon has left the vicinity of the orbiting laboratory.

29 Oct 2012