News briefs for the week take a look at the top 5 impacts of robotics on construction industry in 2022, TUGBOT: two-wheeled logistics robot that can “pull anything”, Kodiak Robotics’ $50 million payday from the Department of Defense, HITBOT’s indoor harvesting technique, and too few robot assistants for the mobility impaired. How robots impact construction …
SES’s first two O3b mPOWER satellites stacked on top of another, ready for encapsulation inside SpaceX’s launcher fairing at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Credit: SpaceX The first two spacecraft in an 11-satellite refresh of SES’s Medium Earth Orbit O3b internet constellation are poised to ride a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket into space from …
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The Surface Water and Ocean Topography, or SWOT, satellite during solar array deployment testing at Thales Alenia Space’s factory in Cannes, France. Credit: Thales Alenia Space A French-built satellite equipped with an innovative U.S.-made radar instrument is buttoned up for blastoff aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Friday from California, kicking off a mission to …
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Particles of coolant leak from Russia’s Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft outside the International Space Station. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now A Russian Soyuz crew ferry ship docked to the International Space Station spewed particles of an unknown substance, presumably coolant fluid, into space Wednesday night, forcing two Russian cosmonauts to call off a planned spacewalk …
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket stands on its launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, awaiting liftoff with the U.S.-French SWOT mission. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX has delayed the launch from California of a Falcon 9 rocket with a U.S.-French environmental monitoring satellite from Thursday to Friday, allowing more time to review the source of moisture …
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A European Ariane 5 rocket blasts off from Kourou, French Guiana, on Tuesday with Europe’s MTG-I1 weather satellite and Intelsat’s Galaxy 35 and 36 communications satellites. Credit: ESA–M. Pedoussaut A European Ariane 5 rocket fired off a launching stand Tuesday in tropical South America with the vanguard of a modernized series of weather satellites to …
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The MTG-I1 satellite is integrated with its Ariane 5 rocket at the Guiana Space Center. Credit: Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/P. Baudon The first in a new generation of European weather satellites is set for launch Tuesday on a mission that promises to improve the timeliness and precision of weather forecasts for Europe and Africa, sharing a ride …
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NASA’s Orion spacecraft descends under three. orange and white main parachutes. Credit: NASA NASA’s Orion spacecraft parachuted to a gentle splashdown in the Pacific Ocean Sunday west of Baja California, ending an unpiloted test flight to the moon that spanned 25-and-a-half days and 1.4 million miles, proving out a new rocket and capsule to carry …
Artemis 1 back on Earth after near-flawless 25-day moon mission Read More »
EDITOR’S NOTE: Watch a replay of our live coverage of the launch here. SFN Live A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral early Sunday with a commercial Japanese robotic moon lander and a NASA hitchhiker micro-payload called Lunar Flashlight that will seek out signs of water ice hidden in the permanently dark floors …
Japanese moon lander, NASA hitchhiker payload launched by SpaceX Read More »
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION A camera on one of the Orion spacecraft’s four solar array wings captured this view of a crescent Earth on Saturday, Dec. 10, the Artemis 1 mission’s final full day in space. Credit: NASA Closing out a 25-day voyage around the moon, NASA’s Artemis 1 spacecraft closed in …
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