As can be expected, all functions on the rover, and on the spacecraft that brought it to its destination 350 million miles from Earth, are controlled by software. This article discusses some of the precautions the JPL flight software team took to improve its reliability.
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Fundamental Physics of Space - Technical Details - 0 views
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NASA - Exploration of Near Earth Objects (NEO) Objectives Workshop [Explore NOW] - 3 views
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good to see what they come up with there ... assume that our JPL friends are there also
Asteroid Watch - jpl.nasa.gov - 0 views
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AsteroidWatch, a new NASA website about NEO for the public...
JPL Press Release on GTOC2 - 0 views
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JPL Robotics: News - 0 views
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CLARAty is an integrated framework for reusable robotic software. It defines interfaces for common robotic functionality and integrates multiple implementations of any given functionality.
NASA Next Mars Rover Mission: new landing technology - 3 views
JPL is also developing a crucial new landing technology called terrain-relative navigation. As the descent stage approaches the Martian surface, it will use computer vision to compare the landscape...
NASA investigates sending CubeSats to Phobos and back - 3 views
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NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Program provides funding to study a small number of highly advanced spaceflight concepts, with the goal of understanding the technological possibilities which will guide the development of future space missions. Under this program, a JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) researcher has proposed the use of a pair of CubeSats for an autonomous mission to retrieve samples from Phobos, Mars' larger moon.
NASA Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing on Mars - 2 views
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HIRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) images show flows lengthen and darken on rocky equator-facing slopes from late spring to early fall. The seasonality, latitude distribution and brightness changes suggest a volatile material is involved, but there is no direct detection of one.
Mars Code | Communications of the ACM - 1 views
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Interesting read if you're interested on the kind of coding that goes into something like the Curiosity rover. :) btw.. nice fill-packet being sent by Curiosity: "Elvis has Spirit. The answer is 42....END\r\n"
Evolution of AI Interplanetary Trajectories Reaches Human-Competitive Levels - Slashdot - 4 views
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"It's not the Turing test just yet, but in one more domain, AI is becoming increasingly competitive with humans. This time around, it's in interplanetary trajectory optimization. From the European Space Agency comes the news that researchers from its Advanced Concepts Team have recently won the Gold 'Humies' award for their use of Evolutionary Algorithms to design a spacecraft's trajectory for exploring the Galilean moons of Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto). The problem addressed in the awarded article (PDF) was put forward by NASA/JPL in the latest edition of the Global Trajectory Optimization Competition. The team from ESA was able to automatically evolve a solution that outperforms all the entries submitted to the competition by human experts from across the world. Interestingly, as noted in the presentation to the award's jury (PDF), the team conducted their work on top of open-source tools (PaGMO / PyGMO and PyKEP)."
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We made it to Slashdot's frontpage !!! :)
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Congratulations, gentlemen!
Voyager I has officially entered interstellar space - 2 views
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NASA JPL presentation on how and when Voyager exited the Heliosphere about a year ago - fascinating!
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NASA doing a great job here - very good presentation at a perfect abstraction level. I recommend watching the whole record.
NASA's Juno Gives Starship-Like View of Earth Flyby | NASA - 1 views
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nice movie
Study finds link between the atmospheric rivers and climate - 1 views
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Atmospheric rivers, short-lived wind tunnels are created in the upper troposphere and carry vast amounts of water. They 'fuel' from the tropical Pacific reservoir and cause heavy precipitation events and even floods to mid-latitude land, as soon as they encounter the Sierra mountains. The new finding is that two inter-hemispheric climatic oscillation modes allow for their creation, as soon as they are found in a certain phase combination.
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Could we conceivably control these like we're thinking to do with taifuns? :)) Would be geoengineering at its finest
SpaceX founder files with government to provide Internet service from space - 0 views
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Elon Musk is moving forward with space based internet service...
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Facebook announced they are ready to test of of their High Altitude Platform element, a drone of the size of a Boeing 737. See the new here http://phys.org/news/2015-07-facebook-ready-giant-drone-internet.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter. It seemed interesting for me that they are developing also a reliable optical communication between this element and scattered ground stations. -
Nice link, that thing is huge and I would love to see a drone that size fly. Also, Facebook's Aerospace Team? :)
Robots to the Rescue!: JPL's RoboSimian and Surrogate Robots are here to Help - 3 views
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Robots to the Rescue!: JPL's RoboSimian and Surrogate Robots are here to Help
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Also many other interesting videos of the Karman Lectures
Asteroid 2010 KQ: Probably a Rocket Body - 2 views
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Asteroid or Space Debris, same battle ?
Principal Investigator Proposal Title Organization City, State, Zip Code
Atchison, Justin Swarm Flyby Gravimetry Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD 21218-2680
Boland, Eugene Mars Ecopoiesis Test Bed Techshot, Inc. Greenville, IN 47124-9515
Cash, Webster The Aragoscope: Ultra-High Resolution Optics at Low Cost University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0389
Chen, Bin 3D Photocatalytic Air Processor for Dramatic Reduction of Life Support Mass & Complexity NASA ARC Moffett Field, CA 94035-0000
Hoyt, Robert WRANGLER: Capture and De-Spin of Asteroids and Space Debris Tethers Unlimited Bothel, WA 98011-8808
Matthies, Larry Titan Aerial Daughtercraft NASA JPL Pasadena, CA 91109-8001
Miller, Timothy Using the Hottest Particles in the Universe to Probe Icy Solar System Worlds John Hopkins University Laurel, MD 20723-6005
Nosanov, Jeffrey PERISCOPE: PERIapsis Subsurface Cave OPtical Explorer NASA JPL Pasadena, CA 91109-8001
Oleson, Steven Titan Submarine: Exploring the Depths of Kraken NASA GRC Cleveland, OH 44135-3127
Ono, Masahiro Comet Hitchhiker: Harvesting Kinetic Energy from Small Bodies to Enable Fast and Low-Cost Deep Space Exploration NASA JPL Pasadena, CA 91109-8001
Streetman, Brett Exploration Architecture with Quantum Inertial Gravimetry and In Situ ChipSat Sensors Draper Laboratory Cambridge, MA 02139-3539
Wiegmann, Bruce Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System (HERTS) NASA MSFC Huntsville, AL 35812-0000