All the stories tagged with space
Swarming robots could be used to search for life on mars
03/21/2011, An engineer from the University of Southampton, UK recently wrote a paper in which he mentioned that the best way for robots to explore mars would be to send swarms of rolling, jumping robots. These Jollbots, as they were called, [...]
Japan to send tweeting robot to space
02/17/2011, The Japanese Space Agency is planning to send a humanoid robot into space along with some astronauts for a space mission in 2013. The humanoid robot will be used to provide companionship for the astronauts on their long and lonely [...]
iRing wheels for lunar rover prototype
01/03/2011, Some smart folks over at the McGill University in Montreal, Canada, have actually decided to go ahead and reinvent the wheel as part of the Lunar Exploration Light Rover (LELR) project. The aim of the project is to build a [...]
Google Sends The Nexus S Into The Skies
12/14/2010, The folks over at Google seem to enjoy performing all sorts of wacky experiments and now they’ve set up seven Styrofoam beer coolers, each containing the Nexus S that you’re so hyped up about and lifted it to the edge [...]
Laser Powered Helicopter Paves The Way For Space Elevators
09/03/2010, There’s something about lasers that seems to appeal to everybody, and now LaserMotive has managed to use a few watts of laser power to keep a 22-gram model helicopter hovering for about an hour. While we can easily think of [...]
Ikaros solar sail deployed successfully
06/14/2010, Japanese scientists could very well have toasted champagne among each other as they celebrated the successful deployment of their solar sail known as Ikaros. This 200-sq-m (2,100-sq-ft) membrane has been attached to a small disc-shaped spacecraft which was sent to [...]
Now Even Satellites Are Getting Into Twitter
05/14/2010, We already know that an astronaut beat us to the punch in sending the first tweet from space, and now it seems that even Satellites are hopping on the addictive Twitter bandwagon. The Nakasuka Lab at the University of Tokyo [...]
NASA uses seabed as underwater lab
05/06/2010, NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston recently announced that they will be participating in the NASA Extreme Environment Missions Operation (NEEMO) mission which is aimed at simulating conditions on other planets, just in case the earth is no longer a [...]
X-37B Robotic Space Plane Demonstrator To Launch On April 19
03/16/2010, If you have an interest in space related goodies and robots, then the news that the X-37B robotic space plane is scheduled for launch on April 19th from Florida is certainly good news for you. The X-37B is a demonstration [...]
Twitter from space
01/22/2010, Shortly after Bill Gates jumped aboard the Twitter bandwagon, along comes news that mankind has made the firt tweet from space. Yes sir, NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer who is on board the International Space Station, earlier sent a Twitter message [...]
