Mar 21, 2017 @ 21:10 | PUFFER is a “pop-up” robot that folds into a small, smartphone-sized weight and crawls into narrow places where rovers can’t fit. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California has developed Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot (PUFFER), inspired by origami. The PUFFER is a project, sponsored by Game Changing Development (GCD) program, […]
Nov 4, 2016 @ 18:39 | New high-resolution images taken by a NASA orbiter show ExoMars Schiaparelli parts module and its landing site in colour on the Red Planet. Schiaparelli arrived in the Meridiani Planum region on Mars on 19 October, while its mothership began orbiting the planet. The Trace Gas orbiter will make its […]
Nov 4, 2016 @ 16:52 | On Oct 27th Curiosity’s Mast Camera (Mastcam) found odd-looking rock, called “Egg Rock”. It contains iron, nickel and phosphorus, plus lesser ingredients, in concentrations still being determined through analysis of the spectrum of light produced from dozens of laser pulses at nine spots on the object. Laser-zapping of a globular, golf-ball-size object […]
Oct 20, 2016 @ 03:34 | Prior to atmospheric entry at 14:42 GMT, contact via the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), the world’s largest interferometric array, located near Pune, India, was established just after it began transmitting a beacon signal 75 minutes before reaching the upper layers of the Martian atmosphere. However, the signal was […]
Sep 8, 2016 @ 02:38 | NASA has set a new launch opportunity, beginning May 5, 2022, for the InSight mission to Mars. InSight’s primary goal is to help us understand how rocky planets formed and evolved. NASA is moving forward with a spring 2018 launch of its InSight mission to study the deep interior […]
Aug 5, 2016 @ 17:37 | The main objective of Yutu moon rover mission was to achieve China’s first soft-landing on the moon, as well as to explore the surface. China’s State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND) announced on August 3 that its Yutu moon rover, or Jade Rabbit, has […]
Jul 24, 2016 @ 16:08 | by Ms Ashley Lovell | The new white paper led by Professor Yang Gao on behalf of the UK-RAS Network, presents the technical roadmap of space RAS (robotics and autonomous systems) for the coming decades where space robots are hoped to be able to offer a range of biomimetic mobility […]
Jul 21, 2016 @ 18:46 | NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is now selecting rock targets for its laser spectrometer — the first time autonomous target selection is available for an instrument of this kind on any robotic planetary mission. Using software developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, Curiosity is now frequently choosing multiple […]