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NASA requests proposals to reduce cost, timeline of Mars Sample Return mission

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This illustration shows a concept for multiple robots that would team up to ferry to Earth samples of rocks and soil being collected from the Martian surface by NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover.Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech NASA is going back to square one when it comes to many aspects of its Mars Sample Return mission in response to …

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Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 23 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral

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A Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch at pad 39A on a mission to deliver another 23 Starlink satellites to orbit. Image: Spaceflight Now. SpaceX is gearing up for the first of two Starlink missions from Cape Canaveral in 48 hours. A Falcon 9 rocket will launch from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space …

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What’s New in Robotics? 22.12.2023

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News briefs for the week take a look at Christmas in Milton Keynes with Santa handing off gift deliveries to reindeer-painted robots, then to the first robot factory ever for rural Indiana’s farmers, then to preventing failures and explosions within industrial storage tanks using wall-climbing robots, to ABB creating a much-needed factory-built homebuilding industry in …

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Russian cosmonauts make spacewalk at International Space Station

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Cosmonaut Dmitri Petelin’s helmet camera captures a view of fellow spacewalker Sergey Prokopyev anchored to the end of a European robot arm attached to the Russian Nauka multi-purpose lab module. Image: NASA TV. A cosmonaut took a test ride on the end of a European robot arm during a six-hour 35-minute spacewalk outside the International …

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