Tag: NASA
Apple lands former Curiosity Mars rover engineer for self-drive project
Apple has continued its process of poaching key staff from its rivals, this time with the hire of a senior self-driving vehicle engineer from...
US government announces 10 drone pilot schemes – omits Amazon, DJI
The US has announced 10 pilot schemes to test unmanned aerial technologies and explore drones' potential to help communities and businesses throughout America. Chris...
Uber partners with NASA, US Army on air taxis
UPDATED Frictionless travel giant Uber has announced partnerships with NASA, the US Army, and OEMs at its Elevate annual conference in LA this week....
Uber Elevate: Air-taxi service still grounded by earthbound problems
Uber’s annual Elevate conference kicks off in Los Angeles today, at which the company will provide further details of its 'UberAIR' plans to take...
Research: NASA to explore Mars with swarm of robot bees
Researchers have proposed a swarm of collaborative robots as a better means of exploring Mars. Malek Murison reports.
Mars is a long way away. At...
Researchers on ISS set to explore manufacturing in space
With the safe arrival of SpaceX’s thirteenth resupply mission, the ISS now has research kit and new sensors on board with which to pilot...
SpaceX launches 12th resupply mission to International Space Station
At 12:31 EDT on August 14th, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission, CRS-12, is...
NASA tests drone traffic control system across the US
US space agency NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are working together on an air traffic control system for commercial drone services.
The concept...
NASA looks to bring IoT to space with wireless comms test
US-based machine-to-machine (M2M) communications company Digi International will today test a program for wireless communications within satellites and payloads from the International Space Station...