NASA Wants to Build Robotic Pit Stops for Satellites
NASA has a big satellite problem: The damned things keep breaking.
Articles tagged "satellite"
Let's Visit Venus with This New NASA Rover
We've all been basking in Mars love for the last few days, and good. Landing the most sophisticated Mars rover ever built on the red planet earned Science some well-deserved headlines this week, and helped rekindle our somewhat lapsing national love
Brazil's NASA Says Amazon Deforestation is Way Down
Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) has just announced that data from its satellite monitoring system shows that deforestation in the Amazon is down a hefty 23% this year, which is good news for those who appreciate the planet's lun…
A Short History of Long-Term Thinking, for Our 50,000 Year Time Capsule
h4. In the year 2014, a space capsule named KEO will be launched into orbit with support from UNESCO and the European Space Agency. Its destination is the planet Earth, 50,000 years from now. Consider it an upgrade to the message-in-a-bottle Golden…
Good Technology: The Satellite Sentinel Project Watches Over Sudan
h4. *There are first world problems like, "should you go for sushi or bánh mi when you get lunch with your ex?" or "which of the six parties happening this weekend is really worth going to?" And there are third world problems, like the lack of clean…
