Japan’s first H3 rocket lifts off on an ill-fated test flight with the ALOS 3 Earth observation satellite. Credit: JAXA Japan’s first H3 rocket, designed to launch satellites and resupply space stations, fell back to Earth Monday (U.S. time) after its second stage engine failed to ignite five minutes into the new launcher’s inaugural test …
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Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket rolls out to Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral. Credit: Relativity Space / Trevor Mahlmann Forecasters from the U.S. Space Force predict mostly sunny conditions at Cape Canaveral during a three-hour launch window Wednesday afternoon for the first flight of Relativity Space’s Terran 1 rocket. The three-hour launch window opens …
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Japan’s H3 rocket rolls out to its launch pad at the Tanegashima Space Center before a second launch attempt March 6 (U.S. time). Credit: JAXA After an electrical problem kept Japan’s first H3 rocket on the ground during a launch attempt last month, ground teams wheeled the new hydrogen-fueled launcher back to its firing stand …
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There are a lot of factors to consider when you are designing a palletizing cell. Even small decisions that you make during the design phase of deployment can significantly affect the performance of the robot, including the all-important cycle time. Palletizing cell layout has a very clear impact on cycle time. Placing the components of …
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 2-7 mission. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with 51 more Starlink internet satellites from California on Friday after a delay of several days to wait for liftoff of a higher-priority crew mission from Florida. NASA, …
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The arrival of the four-man crew on SpaceX’s Dragon Endeavour spacecraft — wearing blue flight suits — temporarily raised the size of the space station crew to 11 people. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now SpaceX’s Dragon Endeavour spacecraft linked up with the International Space Station Friday, delivering two NASA astronauts, an Emirati astronaut, and …
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon Endeavour spacecraft lift off at 12:34 a.m. EST (0534 GMT) Thursday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Thursday from Kennedy Space Center with a four-man crew heading for a six-month stay on the International Space Station, including the …
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STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket stands on pad 39A awaiting liftoff on the Crew-6 mission. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky Running three days late because of a last-minute technical glitch, a four-man space station crew, including a Russian cosmonaut and the first Arab to be assigned to a long duration spaceflight, …
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The final episode of our RoboHouse Interview Trilogy: ‘The Working Life of the Robotics Engineer’ interviews Srimannarayana Baratam. Sriman, as he is also called, co-founded the company Perciv.ai just two months after graduating. Rens van Poppel explores his journey so far. Perciv.ai claims that AI-driven machine perception could become affordable to everyone. When was this …
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Watch our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 6-1 mission at 6:13 p.m. EST (2313 GMT) on Feb. 27 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Follow us on Twitter. SFN Live SpaceX is set to launch the first batch of …
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