News tagged with unmanned surface vessel

Unmanned vessel could soon be working for Navy

Technology that sent unmanned aircraft over Iraq and Afghanistan soon could be steering unstaffed naval boats for such dangerous tasks as minesweeping, submarine detection, intelligence gathering and approaching ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Singapore navy testing unmanned mine-hunter: report

The Singapore navy is testing an unmanned underwater vessel capable of detecting and destroying mines as part of its modernisation plans, a report said Saturday.

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created May 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Venus, the planet of broken dreams

When Venus next week eclipses Earth, an event that will not occur again for more than a century, millions of skygazers may have romantic thoughts about our closest neighbour and its twilight beauty.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

NRL tests robotic fueling of unmanned surface vessels

Engineers from the NRL Spacecraft Engineering Department (SED) successfully demonstrate the robotic fluids transfer from a stationary platform to an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) in wave heights greater than ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Future NASA mission to sun 'a life's dream' for some

The chest-high rack of electronics Justin Kasper is assembling in a Massachusetts office park will fit in a shoe box before he's done.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 10

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

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Russian Mars probe meets inglorious end in Pacific

Russia vowed Monday to expose the officials responsible for the failure of a Mars probe that the military said crashed into the Pacific Ocean after orbiting the Earth for more than two months.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Uncertainty grows over Russia Mars probe crash site

Uncertainty about where a doomed Russian Mars probe might crash back to Earth grew Friday when the Roscosmos space agency changed its prediction thousands of miles (kilometres) from the Pacific to the Atlantic ...

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created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 8

A chronology of China's space programme

China on Tuesday launched an unmanned spacecraft to carry out a key docking mission, taking its next step towards the goal of building its first space station by 2020.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

China spacecraft launches on key mission

China launched an unmanned spacecraft on Tuesday to carry out a key docking mission, taking its next step towards the goal of building its first space station by 2020.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 11

Scientists to develop deep ocean seismic network

(AP) -- The Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been awarded a $1 million grant to develop a deep sea seismic network.

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created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Earth-bound asteroids come from stony asteroids, new studies confirm

Researchers got their first up-close look at dust from the surface of a small, stony asteroid after the Hayabusa spacecraft scooped some up and brought it back to Earth. Analysis of these dust particles, detailed ...

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created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast


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