China International Industry Fair, an annual world-famous fair, takes place at National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) from November 3 – 7, 2015. Industrial robots manufactured by domestic companies, a prototype Mars ...
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The lead scientist for NASA's Mars rover exploration team (Steve Squyres) has announced that recent images beamed back by the Opportunity rover show a rock sitting in a place nearby where there wasn't one just twelve days prior. The image, ...
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and its recent tracks from driving in Gale Crater appear in an image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Dec. 11, 2013. Excerpts from ...
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Ten years after NASA landed two rovers on Mars on a 90-day mission, one rover is still exploring, and the project has generated hundreds of thousands of images from the Martian surface. Now the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) and silicon-on-insulator (SOI), has shipped its 2 billionth UltraCMOS chip (shipped to ...
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity made its third short trip this week as part of a long trek that could take as much as a year. Curiosity, an SUV-sized rover carrying 10 scientific instruments, drove 135 feet on Tuesday. The first two drives ...
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NASA engineers have brought a long-running Mars rover out of stand-by mode after the robot ran into trouble last month. The Mars rover Opportunity is back up and running, according to Guy Webster, a spokesman for NASA. "Confirmation has ...
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The day’s events will include discussion of near-shoring and the creation of innovation “hubs” across the nation. Government officials from across the country—Gov. Bill Haslam (R-Tenn.); Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D - ...
The invention of the rolling bearing, in the form of wooden rollers supporting, or bearing, an object being moved is of great antiquity, and may predate the invention of the wheel. Though it is often claimed that the Egyptians used roller ...
After a computer glitch sidelined NASA's Mars rover Curiosity late last month, another problem has it down again. NASA reported that Curiosity put itself into safe mode on Saturday after a software bug caused a command file to fail a ...
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The NASA Mars rover Curiosity is running again after engineers put it to sleep for a day this week to protect it from a powerful solar storm. On Tuesday, the sun unleashed what appeared to be a major blast of radiation and solar wind, ...
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is out of safe mode and back on active status after computer trouble had sidelined the vehicle for nearly a week. The space agency reported that Curiosity is now running on its backup computer system, known as ...
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A computer problem onboard the Mars rover Curiosity has forced NASA scientists to put the rover into safe mode while they try to bring a backup system online and try to figure out what is wrong with the main computer. "We are doing ...
At the opening ceremony of this year’s CeBit trade show, Tom Enders, CEO, EADS, presented a futuristic Mars Rover, which EADS subsidiary Astrium is working on with the European Space Agency (ESA). However, the main point he made was ...
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The security-enhanced version of the Dell Latitude 10 is available now. Computerworld - WASHINGTON -- Government likes its things to go a distance. There's the Mars Rover, the Washington Monument and, now, a Dell tablet with an optional ...
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