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By Dan on October 28, 2009
Watch this awesome video of NASA’s Ares 1-X rocket doing a test launch from Kennedy Space Center, Florida on October 28th, 2009.
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| Tagged blast off, launch, nasa, rocket, test
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By Dan on June 4, 2009
Having been embedded in a rut of floury sand for several weeks now, NASA’s Mars Rover has successfully used its microscopic imager to shoot a collage of her underbelly.
Posted in Space and NASA
| Tagged mars, nasa, news, rover, sand, space, Space and NASA, spirit, stuck in sand
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By Dan on May 29, 2009
NASA is currently planning on imaging the underbody of the immobile rover to see just how badly Spirit is trapped in the sand.
Posted in Space and NASA
| Tagged astrobotics, mars, nasa, news, opportunity, rover, sand, space, Space and NASA, spirit, stuck in sand
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By Dan on May 23, 2009
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, will collect data about the moon in support of future manned missions.
Posted in Space and NASA
| Tagged astrobotics, Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, moon, nasa, satellite, space, Space and NASA, video
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By Dan on May 21, 2009
Stuck Spirit Mars Rover receives good news about her middle wheel. Diagnostics indicate it may not be jammed after all. Opportunity snaps a picture of herself.
Posted in Space and NASA
| Tagged astrobotics, mars, nasa, news, opportunity, rover, space, Space and NASA, spirit, update
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By Dan on May 16, 2009
Earlier this month, Spirit, one of NASA’s Mars rovers, became stuck in deep sand. NASA engineers are working to find the best method of freeing the aging rover.
Posted in Space and NASA, robot news
| Tagged astrobotics, nasa, rover, sand, space, Space and NASA, spirit, stuck in sand
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By Dan on May 14, 2009
Crew from Atlantis carefully docked to the Hubble Space Telescope via the space shuttle’s robotic arm on Wednesday. A series of spacewalks are planned to repair and renew the aging telescope.
Posted in Space and NASA
| Tagged hubble, mission, nasa, repair, space, Space and NASA, sts-125, telescope
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By Dan on April 13, 2009
NASA’s Moon rover, Scarab, will drill and test the Moon’s surface
Posted in Space and NASA
| Tagged astrobotics, moon, nasa, rover, scarab, Space and NASA, video
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By Dan on March 31, 2009
NASA’s ARES is a Martian UAV designed to fly at one mile above the surface of Mars. ARES has a 6.5 Meter wingspan and will provide very high resolution images of the Martian surface. Once flying above Mars, ARES will stream video in real time and take atmospheric samples to check for the presence of biological gases on Mars.
Posted in Space and NASA
| Tagged ares, atmosphere, gases, life, mars, nasa, rover, stream, uav
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By Dan on March 6, 2009
Astrobotic Technology Inc. and Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute have found a way to use riding lawn-mower sized construction robots to prepare our Moon’s surface for a NASA outpost. The goal of the project was to figure out how to reduce the disruption of Moon dust when outpost rockets land or take off. Since the Moon [...]
Posted in Research, Space and NASA
| Tagged astrobotics, cmu, construction, moon, nasa, robot, Space and NASA
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