Other applications include the safe removal of space debris and spacecraft maintenance Space innovators at the University of Surrey and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) are... Read more
The first private-sector flight to the International Space Station will open up myriad opportunities for science Next month, SpaceX, an aerospace company in Hawthorne, California, is schedul... Read more
Having trouble getting the lid off that pickle jar? Well, perhaps the Human Grasp Assist device can help. Designed through a collaboration between GM and NASA – and also known as Robo-... Read more
Repairing and refueling satellites robotically may seem rather mundane Repairing and refueling satellites robotically may seem rather mundane, especially when compared with moon landings, Ma... Read more
Armies of robots could nimbly be crawling up towers and skyscrapers Like something straight out of “Star Wars,” armies of robots could nimbly be crawling up towers and sky... Read more
The historic handshake between man and machine A NASA robot built to ease the daily lives of astronaut in space greeted its human commander with a hearty handshake Wednesday, along wi... Read more
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Over | NASA, ISS from Michael König on Vimeo. Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the Internation... Read more
A cargo carrier designed for low Earth orbit could provide a cheap route to the red planet. Dragon, the privately built space capsule intended to haul cargo and astronauts to the Inte... Read more
Real Steel or Dumb Metal? Right from the start let’s agree that the argument of humans or robots is getting close to being a dead heat in some areas. With advances in artificial... Read more
Pssst, do you wanna buy a satellite? No, really – do you? Well, Zac Manchester would like to sell you one. Not only that, but he claims that the thing could be built and launched into... Read more
A manned Shuttle replacement based on the X-37B robot space plane When the Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down for the final time on July 21, 2011, it looked as if the notion of a manned spa... Read more
The first SLS unmanned developmental flight is targeted for the end of 2017 With the curtain coming down on the Space Shuttle Program, NASA has set its sights on the future with the announce... Read more
Unmanned commercial spacecraft will soon begin making trips to the International Space Station Despite the grounding of NASA’s storied space shuttle fleet, American spaceships are expe... Read more
A group of Cornell-developed, fingernail-sized satellites may travel to Saturn within the next decade, and as they flutter down through its atmosphere, they will collect data about chemistry... Read more
Should the astronauts living on the International Space Station (ISS) ever need to evacuate, the plan is that they will be able to board the station’s resident escape spacecraft, which will... Read more
