Astrobiology on the cheap
The deliciously named O/OREOS (Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses) project will use cheaper nanosatellites to study the effects of space living on organic molecules. Paul Gilster of Centauri Dreams has the details. Keeping space missions separate can be a difficult challenge when so many satellites are launched on a single rocket. Take O/OREOS (Organism/Organic Exposure…
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…
An Aid Worker’s First-Hand Account of Haiti’s Enormous Technical Challenges
Pierre Petry is a World Food Program senior ICT specialist. He’s currently positioned in Haiti, and has passed along his first-hand experiences trying to help a country with virtually no telecom infrastructure left in the aftermath of the recent earthquake. I was in Cap-Haitien sub office located in the north of the country giving the…
