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Starman Driving his Tesla in Space - LIVE !
Live coverage of SpaceX Elon Musk's Starman Driving a Tesla in Space after Successful Heavy Falcon Launch. Source: YouTube
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Ground Control to Major Tom - Starman Drives his Tesla to Mars
The first Falcon Heavy rocket built by the private spaceflight company SpaceX soared on its maiden voyage today (Feb. 6) — a historic test flight that also sent a car toward Mars and included two confirmed booster landings. Billed as the world's most powerful booster since NASA's
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NASA Awards $1M Contract to Human Automation Teaming Solutions
NASA has awarded Human Automation Teaming Solutions Inc. (HATS) a $1 million contract for a yearlong effort to develop R-HATS technology that will reduce the number of human operators needed to manage complex systems. By allowing the seamless sharing of tasks and responsibilities between automation and human, a single
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DARPA’s XS-1 Phase B
Since the dawn of the Space Age, space vehicles have predominantly shared one major limitation - their fundamentally single-use, disposable nature, and the high mission expenses that inevitably entails. While for a time NASA's shuttle fleet changed that, its retirement a little over four years ago, coupled with
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BAE Systems is Developing a Pilotless Plane
Engineers at BAE Systems have already launched a series of test flights in which the high-tech prototype flies by itself using computers while being monitored by operators sitting 15,000ft below it. BAE, which hopes it can open the door to unmanned flights in commercial travel, has transformed a
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Tech Inspired By Nikola Tesla Charges Drones In Mid-Air
Everything that flies must eventually land. Unless, say, it’s an all-electric drone that can recharge while in flight. Researchers at Imperial College London have demonstrated a way to transfer electricity wireless to a flying drone. Even better: they did so building on a concept pioneered by Nikola Tesla.
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Amazon Patents Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Assistant
Amazon has received a patent that covers the systems required to build a pocket-sized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that responds to voice commands.The patent application published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office says Amazon’s technologies are supposed to enable miniature drones that are “smaller, lighter,
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Heliceo Offers World First in Geomatics
The DroneBox is the most cost-effective solution on the market for aerial, terrestrial and aquatic surveying work.
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Quadruped Robot that can Back-Flip and Climb Fences
A new robotics startup has launched a sprightly little quadruped robot that is able to scale fences, manipulate door handles, turn back flips, climb stairs and jump up and down while keeping its balance, almost like a robot version of Jiminy Cricket. The Minitaur is a four-legged robot measuring
Lighter Than Air
Hovercraft Technology on Hybrid Airship
Hovercraft can travel over land, water and ice. The technology behind the Hybrid Airship, the cargo-hauling ship of the skies, allows this hybrid craft to travel virtually anywhere.What is a hovercraft? It’s part boat, part airplane and part helicopter. While it may look a bit odd, how
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UAV-Based SATCOM and Navigation Jammers
Belarus' KB Radar Design Bureau has developed satellite communications and navigation jamming systems that can be mounted on tactical-level unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The Touman-2 has been designed to jam the downlink and transmission signals for equipment that uses Inmarsat, Thuraya, and Iridium satellite communications infrastructure, while
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Royal Navy Tests Unmanned Speedboat on Thames Ahead of Unmanned Warrior
The UK Royal Navy has tested an unmanned speedboat on the River Thames ahead of a naval drone exercise off the UK coast this autumn. To the delight of tourists, Tower Bridge swung open to let through the sleek, low-slung craft, known as Mast (Maritime Autonomy Surface Testbed).Accompanied