“Twenty robotics teams, ranging from university students to small businesses, are preparing to compete June 8-13 in the fourth running of the NASA Sample Return Robot Challenge for a prize purse of…
Month: June 2015
NASA Uses Crowdsourcing for Open Innovation Contracts
“NASA is turning to the public and crowdsourcing for outside-the-box thinking about human space exploration challenges with a series of 10 new NASA Open Innovation Service (NOIS) Contracts. The first challenges to…
NASA-led Volunteers Map Landslides by Nepal Quakes
“As millions of people regroup from the impact of the earthquakes in Nepal, a team of international volunteers is combing through satellite imagery of the region to identify additional hazardsearthquake-induced landslides. As…
Engaging Citizen Scientists with GPM Observatory
“Every morning at seven, Andrew Welch wakes up, cooks breakfast and checks the rain gauge sitting on a five-foot post in his backyard. He writes down the measurement, sends his kid off…
NASA Announces Education Research Program Award Recipients
“NASA is awarding a total of approximately $11.25 million to universities in 15 states to conduct basic research and technology development in areas critical to the agency’s mission. NASA’s Experimental Program to…
LightSail Team Prepares for Sail Deployment
“LightSail is almost ready for its moment in the sun. This afternoon, mission managers gave the go-ahead for a manual solar sail deployment as early as Tuesday, June 2 at 11:44 a.m….
NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission App
“Learn from NASA leaders, engineers and scientists about NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), a stepping stone along our path to human pioneering of Mars. ARM will be the first-ever robotic mission to…
NASA Issues Opportunities to Advance "Tipping Point" and "Emerging Space Technologies"
“NASA has announced two opportunities for public-private partnerships to achieve the agency’s goals of expanding capabilities and opportunities in space. Through both solicitations, NASA is seeking industry-developed space technologies that can foster…
Using Space Radar To Hear Human Heartbeats in Nepal
“On 24 April 2015 a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal – a nation woefully unprepared to respond to such an event. Nearly 300 aftershocks of magnitude 4.0 or greater have rattled the…
Continuing Medical Education (CME) on ISRO's Telemedicine network
“Indian space programme has multi dimensions, providing significant infrastructure for national development in the vital areas like tele-communication, television broadcasting, meteorological observations and generating timely and accurate data on natural resources management….