Laser Ground Stations Slash Costs for Moon and Mars Data
… And NASA’s latest moonshot is hardly alone in that technological distinction. …
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Do Robots Need Legs? What If You Gave ChatGPT a Body?
… Genesis Engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are field-testing advanced capabilities for potential future Moon and Mars rovers . …
Lasers From Space Promise Fiber Speed for the World’s Unconnected
… In 2023, NASA tested a record-breaking 200 Gbps laser link between a ground station and NASA’s Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator 3 satellite in low Earth orbit . …
The Tiny Turbine That Kick-Started the U.S. Wind Industry
… A month or so later, he’d installed it in a cabinet near Heronemus’s office and wired it to an anemometer on Orchard Hill. …
How Karen Panetta Became Bewitched by Engineering
… Her simulator has been adapted for several industrial uses, including by NASA to help design spacecraft. …
Engineering Is Critical to Boosting Food Security
… We’re talking about sensing, communications, computation, automation , and sustainability all working together.” Although not formally trained as an agriculture scientist, Verboncoeur’s first involvement with smart agriculture was as an undergraduate at University of Florida in 1985-86, where he he… …
Inside the Stealth Satellite Lifeline Beating Iran’s Internet Blackout
… I remember using Yahoo Mail with its 4 megabytes of storage, reading news from around the world, and learning about the Chandra X-ray telescope from NASA’s website. …