Space Robot Will Repair Ships and Bring Satellites to Fiery Doom
Meet Justin, the space robot. He’s clever, agile, wired to a human for control (of the robot, not the human) and he’s a possible solution for fixing orbiting satellites in the post-Shuttle era. If they’re dead, he can even fire them to their doom. Justin’s the product of ongoing research by the Institute of Robotics…
Space & Spaceflight
Kit Eaton - Fast Company
NASA Wants to Use a Web of GPS Sites to Predict Tsunamis
NASA researchers have successfully completed the first demonstration of a prototype tsunami prediction system. Using global and regional real-time data from hundreds of GPS sites, the system can quickly assess large earthquakes and accurately predict the size of resulting tsunamis. The new system, developed by Y. Tony Song and his colleagues at NASA’s Jet Propulsion…
Tech News
Laurie J. Schmidt - PopSci
