News tagged with glider
DARPA releases cause of hypersonic glider anomaly
(AP) -- An unmanned hypersonic glider likely aborted its 13,000 mph flight over the Pacific Ocean last summer because unexpectedly large sections of its skin peeled off, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 21, 2012 |
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US hypersonic glider flunks first test flight
US military scientists lost contact with a hypersonic glider nine minutes into its inaugural test flight last week, a defense research agency said on Tuesday.
Apr 28, 2010 |
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Surfboard-sized drones crossing pacific to monitor sea surface
Hundreds of miles off the California coast, four drones about the size of surfboards and are tossing across the Pacific toward Hawaii, controlled by pilots on shore.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Autonomous sea gliders record sounds of fish emptying buoyancy bladders
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers attempting to map the various types of fish living in the eastern Gulf of Mexico have been using an automated sea glider, which is a small autonomous submarine outfitted with a ...
Mar 28, 2012 |
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Contact lost with hypersonic glider after launch (Update)
An unmanned hypersonic glider developed for U.S. defense research into super-fast global strike capability was launched atop a rocket early Thursday but contact was lost after the experimental craft began ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 11, 2011 |
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ONR helps undersea robots get the big picture
Scientists have successfully transitioned fundamental research in autonomy to undersea gliders, demonstrating in recent sea tests how the new software, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), can ...
Dec 03, 2011 |
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Robotic boats to travel across Pacific Ocean
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last Thursday, November 17, four unmanned Wave Gliders left the coast of San Francisco and began a 300-day journey across the Pacific Ocean. The vehicles, which are self-propelled and remotely ...
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Nissan's new concept car 'feels like flying' (w/ Video)
Nissan unveiled Thursday a futuristic concept car that tilts to the side when going around bends to make drivers feel like they are gliding through the air.
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Colugos glide to save time, not energy
Gripping tightly to a tree trunk, at first sight a colugo might be mistaken for a lemur. However, when this animal leaps it launches into a graceful glide, spreading wide the enormous membrane that spans its legs and tail ...
Jul 28, 2011 |
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Glider robot a sleek ocean explorer
The sea was heaving, the skies gray. The captain of the research ship was worried about the weather. About 120 miles off the coast of Spain, three Rutgers University scientists had a narrow window of opportunity to find and ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 27, 2009 |
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Seaglider sets new underwater endurance and range records
(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Washington Seaglider operated for 9 months and 5 days in the Pacific Ocean, an endurance record more than double what any other autonomous underwater vehicle has accomplished ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2009 |
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Liquid Robotics launches quartet on epic swim across Pacific
(PhysOrg.com) -- Four self propelling robots, called Wave Gliders,from the company Liquid Robotics were launched last week from San Francisco for a 33,000 nautical mile journey. The robots took off from the St. Francis Yacht ...
Nov 26, 2011 |
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Caltech oceanographer tests new technology at the bottom of the Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- The field of study of Andrew Thompson, assistant professor of environmental science and engineering at Caltech, presents not only theoretical challenges but logistical ones as well. That's ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2012 |
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Yellow submarine to try again for Atlantic glide
(AP) -- A second try is about to get under way at sending a little yellow submarine gliding across the Atlantic Ocean to collect scientific data from beneath the waves.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 19, 2009 |
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Revolutionary tool will methodically track ocean populations
Oceanographer Chuck Greene envisions a day when he will be able to observe the ocean the way a meteorologist observes the weather -- with continuous streams of data that allow him to see changes as they happen ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 06, 2012 |
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