The European Automated Transfer Vehicle 2 (ATV – 2) met a fiery demise on June 21. A planned end to the huge unmanned robotic spacecraft was recorded faithfully by a special onboard recorder and transmitted back to earth.
TopCoder is working with MIT Space Systems Lab and Aurora Flight Sciences for organising the Zero Robotics competition.
If you are a high school student fascinated with all things space this might just be the opportunity that you were waiting for. What the NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA are offering is the opportunity to design experiments that will actually be tested in space.
The Canadian Government and Bank of Canada have got together to honour the Canadian space program in a unique manner. The new five dollar bill will profile the workhorse of the International Space Station, Canadarm2 and Dexte which were developed by MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associated Ltd.
William Lynn, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defence said that the US would strive to keep its lead in unmanned robotic technology despite the $400 billion reduction in defense spending. The cuts in defence budget are part of the Obama government’s goal of reducing the U.S. deficit over the next 12 years.
The U.S Deputy Secretary of Defence stated that the military would continue to be the leader in using unmanned robotic technology despite cost cutting measures of $ 400 billion in the defence budget. William Lynn, the Deputy Secretary, added that the Pentagon would continue to lead in the cyber security and long-range target striking using missiles, electronic attacks and aircraft.
Carnegie Mellon University and Astrobotic Technology Inc have finished the structural assembly of the lunar landing craft which will deliver the Red Rover robot to the moon in 2014.
Phase Vision, an expert in the measurement of while light, has aided AESIR in developing the latest generation of advanced unmanned autonomous airborne vehicles (UAAVs).
NASA is set to launch a robotic gas station into space along with the last space shuttle. If this unique experiment is successful the way satellites are designed will be changed forever. A satellite usually carries all the fuel it will need for its mission on board and as it is finished the life of the satellite is effectively over.
Energid Technologies Corp has been contracted by NASA to produce a proxy digital simulation for lunar and planetary rovers. The $600,000 deal with the robotics firm is for two years as per the announcement made by the Cambridge company today.
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