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‘Killer robots’ will be nothing like the movies show – here’s where the real threats lie

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Ghost Robotics Vision 60 Q-UGV. US Space Force photo by Senior Airman Samuel Becker By Toby Walsh (Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney) You might suppose Hollywood is good at predicting the future. Indeed, Robert Wallace, head of the CIA’s Office of Technical Service and the US equivalent of MI6’s fictional …

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Russia launches three satellite deployment missions in one week

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A Finnish pilot submitted this spectacular photo of the Soyuz rocket’s exhaust plume at sunrise after launch Oct. 10 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. Credit: Tuomas Syrjäniemi All three of Russia’s major rockets — the Soyuz, Proton, and Angara — launched last week on missions to deploy a Russian navigation satellite, an Angolan …

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Failure of Japan’s Epsilon rocket blamed on attitude control system

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A Japanese Epsilon rocket lifts off Oct. 12 with eight small satellites. Credit: JAXA Engineers investigating the Oct. 12 launch failure of a Japanese Epsilon rocket have traced the problem to the attitude control system on the second stage, Japan’s space agency said Tuesday. The solid-fueled launcher took off from Japan’s Uchinoura Space Center in …

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SpaceX launches European TV broadcasting satellite

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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket streaks into a moonlit sky over Cape Canaveral in this long exposure photo. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography An Airbus-built communications satellite rocketed into orbit early Saturday from Cape Canaveral on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 launcher, bound for a high-altitude perch in geostationary orbit to …

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Live coverage: SpaceX counting down to late-night launch from Cape Canaveral

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Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The Falcon 9 rocket will launch Eutelsat’s Hotbird 13F geostationary communications satellites. Follow us on Twitter. SFN Live A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set for blastoff at 11:26 p.m. EDT …

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SpaceX Crew Dragon returns to Earth with on-target splashdown

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STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION SpaceX’s Dragon Freedom spacecraft splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls Three NASA astronauts and a European flier boarded their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, undocked from the International Space Station and plunged back to Earth Friday, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean east of Jacksonville to …

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SpaceX launch to deploy first in new generation of Airbus-built satellites

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Eutelsat’s Hotbird 13F communications satellite. Credit: Airbus The first in a new line of Airbus-built communications satellites is stowed for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Friday night from Cape Canaveral, ready for a mission to beam hundreds of TV channels to Eutelsat customers across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. The Hotbird …

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NASA targets Nov. 14 for next Artemis launch attempt

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NASA’s Space Launch System moon rocket inside the Vehicle Assembly Building. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky The next launch attempt for the NASA’s Artemis 1 moon rocket is scheduled just after midnight Nov. 14 after a hydrogen leak and Hurricane Ian thwarted tries to launch the unpiloted test flight to the moon in August and September, space …

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Space station astronauts ready for return to Earth

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NASA astronaut Bob Hines (left), Jessica Watkins (top), European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti (bottom), and Crew-4 commander Kjell Lindgren (right) aboard the International Space Station in July. Credit: NASA Four astronauts are preparing to ride a SpaceX Dragon crew capsule from the International Space Station back to Earth on Thursday to close out a …

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