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Professor Ivan Getting working in his laboratory.

For GPS, Also Thank Ivan Getting; He Got "the Damn Thing Funded"

19 Apr

The FCC’s Big Problem with Small Satellites

10 Apr

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An Altaeros mobile broadband 'SuperTower'.

Soaring ‘SuperTowers’ Aim to Bring Mobile Broadband to Rural Areas

4 Apr

Illustration: MCKIBILLO

Fiber Lasers Mean Ray Guns Are Coming

27 Mar

Flock of birds in flight

Cosmonauts Prepare to Bring the 'Internet of Animals' Online

21 Mar

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Casting a $20 Million Mirror for the World’s Largest Telescope

6 Jan

Photo: DARPA

Robot Mechanic Could Prevent Satellites From Becoming Space Junk

29 Jul 2017

Brown cardboard box with two wheels attached sitting on rocky dirt surface

NASA Tests Origami-Inspired Robot That May One Day Explore Mars

13 May 2017

A Gyroscope Jetpack for Astronauts

23 Nov 2015

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Andy Weir on The Martian, Mars, and the Movie

2 Oct 2015

U.S. Navy Readies a Full-Scale Railgun for Sea Trials

13 Mar 2015

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Features

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Zipline Expands Its Medical Delivery Drones Across East Africa

2 Jan

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China Promises the Moon

1 Jan

Illustration: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Inside DARPA’s Mission to Send a Repair Robot to Geosynchronous Orbit

8 Mar 2017

Photo-illustration: Edmon de Haro

Autonomous Air Taxis Will Take Off in 2017, but Won’t Go Far

30 Dec 2016

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Commercial Spaceflight Hits a Milestone

30 Dec 2016

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A Parallel Air Traffic Control System Will Let Delivery Drones Fly Safely

29 Dec 2016

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Amateur satellite watcher Mike Coletta is keeping an eye out for possible SpaceBee transmissions.

Why Did Swarm Launch Its Rogue Satellites?

20 Mar

Photo showing the Vineyards owned by Ernest and Julio Gallo

The Nexus Linking IBM, California Wine, and Climate Modeling

13 Mar

Color image of the icy moon Europa

SXSW 2018: Looking For Life on Europa, Enceladus, and Titan

12 Mar

Applications and Evolution of EMP/HEMP Filter Technologies

On Sept. 21, 2017, engineers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, lowered the thermal protection system – the heat shield – onto the spacecraft for a test of alignment as part of integration and testing.

SXSW 2018: How NASA's Parker Solar Probe Was Engineered to Take the Heat

10 Mar

Rendering of 4 of Swarm Technologies' SpaceBee satellites in space.

FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites

9 Mar

A camera equipped radio controlled quadcopter drone flying over a silhouetted man.

Can the U.S. Military Combat the Coming Swarm of Weaponized Drones?

6 Mar

Lockheed Martin HELIOS system

Lockheed Martin to Develop Laser Weapons for U.S. Navy Destroyers

2 Mar

Photo-illustration: Stuart Bradford

Photovoltaics in Satellites

22 Feb

A scene from “Slaughterbots,” a video produced by the Future of Life Institute to illustrate the dangers of autonomous weapons

Debating Slaughterbots and the Future of Autonomous Weapons

1 Feb

NICER Payload onboard the International Space Station

What If GPS Stood for “Galactic Positioning System”?

1 Feb

Illustration: John MacNeill

New Antennas Will Take CubeSats to Mars and Beyond

25 Jan

Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel Corporation on Volocopter’s first passenger flight.

CES 2018: Intel's CEO Becomes First Passenger in an Air Taxi

9 Jan

Photo: Natilus

Cargo Industry Tests Seaplane Drones to Deliver Freight

27 Dec 2017

Photo of a rocket as it moves slowly toward the pad at the Wenchang Space Launch Center, in China’s Hainan Province.

Ad Astra Diplomacy

20 Dec 2017

Conceptual illustration of interstellar asteroid 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua) as it passed through the solar system after its discovery in October 2017. The aspect ratio of up to 10:1 is unlike that of any object seen in our own solar system.

How We Could Explore That Interstellar Asteroid

29 Nov 2017

Photo of Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, in Western Australia.

Far From Radio Interference, the Square Kilometre Array Takes Root in South Africa and the Australian Outback

28 Nov 2017

Yates Electrospace Corporation’s “Silent Arrow” glider drones resembles a sleek missile with extendable wings.

Marines Plan New Test Flights for Battlefield Delivery Drones

27 Nov 2017

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