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SpaceX delivers for rival OneWeb with sunset launch from Kennedy Space Center

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Watch a replay of our live coverage of the launch here. SFN Live Forty more OneWeb internet satellites rocketed into orbit from Kennedy Space Center at sunset Thursday, the company’s first launch with SpaceX after suspending flights on Russian rockets earlier this year. Following a spectacular sunset blastoff at 5:27 p.m. EST (2227 GMT) …

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Looking beyond “technology for technology’s sake”

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“Learning about the social implications of the technology you’re working on is really important,” says senior Austen Roberson. Photo: Jodi Hilton By Laura Rosado | MIT News correspondent Austen Roberson’s favorite class at MIT is 2.S007 (Design and Manufacturing I-Autonomous Machines), in which students design, build, and program a fully autonomous robot to accomplish tasks …

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OneWeb readies for 15th launch, and first with SpaceX

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Forty OneWeb satellites mounted on a dispenser before encapsulation inside a SpaceX payload fairing. Credit: OneWeb OneWeb’s broadband network will get a boost from SpaceX, which operates its own internet constellation, with the launch of 40 satellites on top of a Falcon 9 rocket set for Thursday from Kennedy Space Center. The 40 satellites are …

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Russia launches two Soyuz rockets on military space missions

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A Russian Soyuz rocket lifts off Nov. 28 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome with a Glonass navigation satellite. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense Russia launched two Soyuz rockets Nov. 28 and Nov. 30 from the country’s northern cosmodrome, hauling a Glonass navigation satellite and a military spy satellite into orbit. The two launches from neighboring launch …

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Estimating manipulation intentions to ease teleoperation

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Teleoperation is one of the longest-standing application fields in robotics. While full autonomy is still work in progress, the possibility to remotely operate a robot has already opened scenarios where humans can act in risky environments without endangering their own safety, such as when defusing explosives or decommissioning nuclear waste. It also allows one to …

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Artemis 1 capsule beams back spectacular farewell views of the moon

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The Orion spacecraft captured this stunning view of a crescent Earth and the limb of the moon after completing the return powered flyby maneuver for the Artemis 1 mission Monday. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now Flying just 80 miles (130 kilometers) off the lunar surface, NASA’s Orion capsule fired its main engine Monday to …

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Chinese crew back on Earth after six months on Tiangong space station

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From left to right: Commander Chen Dong, astronaut Liu Yang, and astronaut Cai Xuzhe after landing on the Shenzhou 14 spacecraft. Credit: China Manned Space Agency Three Chinese astronauts landed Sunday after 182 days on China’s Tiangong space station, completing the busiest mission yet for the country’s human spaceflight program. The astronauts performed three spacewalks …

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Astronauts prep to install new solar array outside International Space Station

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NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio will put on their spacesuits Saturday and head outside the International Space Station for a spacewalk to install and unfurl a new roll-out solar array recently delivered by a SpaceX cargo ship. Cassada and Rubio, both on their first flights to space, are scheduled to begin the spacewalk …

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Watch live: Orion capsule set to leave lunar orbit today

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Continuing a “drama-free” test flight, NASA’s Orion spacecraft is set to fire its main engine Thursday to leave a distant orbit around the moon, heading for a flyby close to the lunar surface next week to swing onto a trajectory to bring it back to Earth for splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 11. …

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The Utah Bionic Leg: A motorized prosthetic for lower-limb amputees

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The Utah Bionic Leg is a motorized prosthetic for lower-limb amputees developed by University of Utah mechanical engineering associate professor Tommaso Lenzi and his students in the HGN Lab. Lenzi’s Utah Bionic Leg uses motors, processors, and advanced artificial intelligence that all work together to give amputees more power to walk, stand-up, sit-down, and ascend …

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