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One giant leap: Rosetta and the space mining frontier
Kris Zacny
24 Nov 2014
The Rosetta mission’s dramatic rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko captured the attention and imagination of the world earlier this month. It was thrilling to see an ambitious 10-year pr...
Google commits $1.36 billion for NASA facility, to house their robotics, space and flight technologies
Frank Tobe
12 Nov 2014
Google subsidiary Planetary Ventures has committed to a 60-year $1.16 billion lease of the 1,000 acre Moffett Field Naval Air Station. The agreement includes an additional $200 million to refurbish th...
Touchdown! Rosetta’s Philae makes first ever landing on a comet
Ioannis K. Erripis
12 Nov 2014
UPDATE: ESA's Rosetta mission has soft-landed its Philae probe on to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The signal confirming the successful touchdown arrived on Earth at 16:03 GMT (17:03...
Antares orb-3 accident
Ioannis K. Erripis
29 Oct 2014
A very unfortunate incident for NASA and the commercial orbital transportation services program took place yesterday. The Antares rocket that was about to send the Cygnus spacecraft on the ISS explode...
UAE starts process of building Arab region’s first Mars probe | Gulf Business
Hallie Siegel
21 Oct 2014
The UAE has taken the “first practical steps” towards its mission of sending the Arab world’s first unmanned probe to Mars, the UAE’s VP and PM and Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid A...
ESA confirms primary landing site for Rosetta | ESA News
Robohub Editors
15 Oct 2014
ESA has given the green light for its Rosetta mission to deliver its lander, Philae, to the primary site on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 12 November, in the first-ever attempt at a soft touchdown o...
NASA 3D prints rocket injector, initial tests successful | NASA News
Hallie Siegel
29 Aug 2014
Engineers just completed hot-fire testing with two 3-D printed rocket injectors. Certain features of the rocket components were designed to increase rocket engine performance. The injector mixed liqui...
Mars Opportunity Rover sets off-world driving record | NASA News
Hallie Siegel
28 Jul 2014
From a NASA press release:
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2004, now holds the off-Earth roving distance record after accruing 25 miles (40 kilometers) of driving. ...
Curiosity’s Martian anniversary selfie is a sign of the times
Hallie Siegel and Ioannis K. Erripis
26 Jun 2014
NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover captures a selfie to mark a full Martian year - 687 Earth days - spent exploring the Red Planet. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Robots, selfies and remote connectedne...
Robot selfies, and the road to self-recognition
Oliver Bendel
09 Jun 2014
People take selfies with smartphones and digital cameras (or even with flying robots), and share them on social media, blogs, microblogs and image platforms for social purposes, and though selfies m...
SpaceX unveils its next generation Dragon V2
Ioannis K. Erripis
29 May 2014
Tonight at 7PM PT SpaceX will reveal Dragon V2 -their next generation spacecraft designed to carry astronauts to space.
UPDATE: read our de-briefing of the presentation below...
Extreme-environment robotics under development at Keio University
DigInfo TV
20 May 2014
At Keio University in Japan, the Ishigami Laboratory, in the Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, is investigating robotic mobility systems. The main mission of thi...
Back on Earth, Part 3
Jim Haas
16 Apr 2014
Special thanks again to "NateFan", whose comment inspired today's comic.
I hope the characters referenced from NASA are good sports, I figured they'd crack up over Nate's "findings" regarding facia...
ROS goes to space!
Robohub Editors
13 Mar 2014
As part of a resupply mission to the International Space Station, ROS will board a SpaceX Rocket on March 16 and, barring inclement weather, will launch into space. According to a blogpost by Brian Ge...
Robonaut doctor to practice in space
Daniel Faggella and TechEmergence
12 Mar 2014
Astronauts all know how important it is to stay healthy in space. Weightlessness alone can cause a number of physiological changes including muscle atrophy, loss of blood volume and bone loss. Most as...
Back on Earth, Part 2
Jim Haas
07 Mar 2014
In the comments below, tell me, what questions would researchers want answered about Nate's experiences on Mars? I'll select the best and make comics out of them (showing how Nate answers) in the next...
Back on Earth
Jim Haas
28 Feb 2014
I guess all those other Mars rovers just landed in the wrong spot? I had this idea yesterday to try something a little different. In the comments below, tell me, what questions would researchers want ...
Mission to Mars, Part 8
Jim Haas
21 Feb 2014
The mission to Mars concludes now that Nate is back on Earth, but do you think the adventure is really over? Learn more about Nate's wacky life at his Website....
Mission to Mars, Part 7
Jim Haas
17 Feb 2014
Stay tuned next week for the exciting conclusion of Nate's "mission to Mars" experience. As always, remember you can see more at Nate's Website....
Mission to Mars, Part 6
Jim Haas
07 Feb 2014
I want to thank Robonaut for being a great sport and being willing to appear in this week's comic! When I got done with last week's comic, for fun I sent a tweet to Robonaut asking him to join Nate ...
Mission to Mars, Part 5
Jim Haas
31 Jan 2014
We all know that the first thing we'd want to do on a planet with low gravity is a Michael Jordon dunk.
As always, remember you can see more at Nate's Website....
Mission to Mars, Part 4
Jim Haas
24 Jan 2014
As always, remember you can see more at Nate's Website....
Mission to Mars, Part 3
Jim Haas
17 Jan 2014
As always, remember you can see more at Nate's Website....
Watch Zero Robotics SPHERES Challenge live
Ioannis K. Erripis
17 Jan 2014
NASA, MIT and DARPA will host the Fifth Annual Zero Robotics SPHERES Student Challenge today at 7:30am (EST). The event will take place at MIT's campus in Cambridge, Mass. where student teams from the...
GLXP Update: Penn State Lunar Lions now in #3 spot
Robert Morris
07 Jan 2014
What are they putting in the water in the Keystone state? It turns out that Penn State Lunar Lions team announced plans to get launched to the moon as well. They have made a deposit for a ride in ...
Video: Panel discussion celebrating 10 years of the Mars Exploration Rover
Robohub Editors
06 Jan 2014
Tuesday, Jan. 7, 10:30AM - 12PM Eastern Time: NASA and the Smithsonian team up to facilitate two panel discussions on Mars robotic and human missions. Held in NASM's Moving Beyond Earth gallery, par...
Mission to Mars
Jim Haas
03 Jan 2014
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday break! As always, remember you can see more at Nate's Website....
China’s moon landing and rover tip of iceberg
Frank Tobe
20 Dec 2013
Yutu (“Jade Rabbit”), China's rover-like robot was soft-landed on the moon earlier this month. China's plans to become a global leader in robotics and space exploration are just beginning to be s...
Soft robotics in space
Alan Winfield
14 Dec 2013
Space robotics is understandably conservative. When the cost of putting a robot on a planet, moon or asteroid runs into the billions we need to be sure the technology will work. And with very long pro...
Google Lunar X Prize leader board: Barcelona Moon Team schedules launch ahead of Astrobotic, Moon Express, and Team Indus
Robert Morris
09 Dec 2013
The private space race is on! With the $40M at stake from the Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP) leading other private and pseudo-private investment, this is a real race. I, for one, love racing. By foot, ...
CubeSats: Launching education into space
Hallie Siegel
06 Dec 2013
Three Cubesats were deployed November 19, 2013 from a Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (SSOD) attached to the Kibo laboratory’s robotic arm. Image Credit: NASA.
Four more student-built CubeSat rese...
Air, water, energy and food in a nutshell: Space exploration as driver for sustainable robotic agriculture
Nikolaus Correll
04 Nov 2013
University of Colorado's robotic plant growth is demonstrated at the Kennedy Space Center. Source: NASA.
Targeting a sustainable presence of humans in outer space will require solving air, water, ...
NASA closes most of its doors due to US Congress shutdown, but Jet Propulsion Lab continues operating
Hallie Siegel
02 Oct 2013
We had hoped to be sharing highlights with you this week from NASA's Asteroid Initiative Idea Synthesis Workshop, which was scheduled to run this September 30 to October 2 at the Lunar Planetary Ins...
NASA to host workshop exploring ideas for protecting Earth from asteroids | NASA News Release
Robohub Editors
04 Sep 2013
NASA has chosen 96 ideas it regards as most promising from more than 400 submitted in response to its June request for information (RFI) about protecting Earth from asteroids and finding an asteroid h...
SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully completes 100m lateral maneuver before returning to launchpad
Robohub Editors
14 Aug 2013
Yesterday SpaceX's Falcon 9 test rig (code name Grasshopper) successfully completed a 100m lateral maneuver, beginning at an altitude of 250m, before returning to the center of the pad from which it w...
