AI SpaceFactory Wins NASA's 3D-Printed Extraterrestrial Habitats Challenge
AI SpaceFactory bests Penn State in a one-of-a-kind competition to see whose innovative building techniques could someday allow humans to live on Mars or the moon
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New Memory Device Can Take the Heat
A new memory device based on gallium nitride can operate at 300 degrees Celsius
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How NASA Will Use Robots to Create Rocket Fuel From Martian Soil
Engineers are building a prototype of a robotic factory that will create water, oxygen, and fuel on the surface of Mars
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AI Learns to Guide Planetary Rovers Without GPS
Deep learning could help robotic rovers figure out their location on the moon and Mars
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Space Explorer Hayabusa2 Prepares to Land on a Diamond-Shaped Asteroid 900 Meters Wide
After traveling 3.2 billion kilometers, the Japanese space probe will attempt to park, pick up samples of the asteroid, then return to earth by 2020
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Don Eyles: Space Hacker
This programmer saved the Apollo 14 mission with a few dozen keystrokes
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Making Radio Chips for Hell
Mixer IC works at 500 degrees Celsius, so it can take the heat on the surface of Venus, inside a natural-gas turbine, or in the bowels of a 6-kilometer-deep oil well
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3 More Documentaries for Engineers
California Typewriter, AlphaGo, and The Farthest
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Bats, Blimps, and Giant Camera Chips: 2018’s Top Tech Quick Hits
A dozen intriguing tech projects to look for in the coming year
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China Promises the Moon
The next step may be the first-ever soft landing on the lunar far side