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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - May 2015

May 2015

May 11, 2015

Underwater Robot to Plan its Own Missions

Very soon, there would be a robot that can plan and execute its mission in deep oceans. Developed by researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the robot has its own "cognitive" capabilities.
The new programming approach developed by MIT engineers enables robots perform high-level decision-making to figure out how to achieve these goals.
For example, an engineer may give a robot a list of goal locations to explore, along with any time constraints, as well as physical directions, such as staying a certain distance above the sea floor.
Using the system devised by the MIT team, the robot can then plan out a mission, choosing which locations to explore, in what order, within a given time frame.

May 10, 2015

NASA’s Robotic Eel’ to Explore Europa

NASA is developing a ‘robotic eel’ that could explore the icy water of Jupiter’s moon Europa and power itself with energy derived from local magnetic fields.
The U.S. space agency has selected 15 proposals for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC), a programme that aims to turn science fiction into science fact through the development of pioneering technologies.
One of the selected proposals calls for the use of a soft-robotic rover for missions that cannot be accomplished with conventional power systems.
This rover would resemble an eel with a short antenna on its back that harvests power from locally changing magnetic fields.
The goal is to enable amphibious exploration of gas-giant moons like Europa.

May 09, 2015

Rogue Russian Spacecraft burns up in Earth's Atmosphere

The Russian space agency said that its out-of-control spacecraft has burnt up as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere.
The unmanned cargo ship was launched from Kazakhstan on 28th April, but control was lost soon afterwards.
The Progress M-27M was carrying more than three tonnes of supplies to the International Space Station.

May 08, 2015

Manned Mission to International Space Station Delayed

As per reports from Russian federal space agency Roscosmos the upcoming manned mission to the International Space Station (ISS) would be re-scheduled due to the recent failure of the Progress M-27M cargo craft.
The programme of the next expedition to the ISS on May 26 may be adjusted due to possible postponements of the launch dates of cargo spacecraft and amendments to the ISS flight programme.
The new ISS crew has been preparing for its mission at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

May 07, 2015

Astronomers Discover Farthest Galaxy

Astronomers have set a new distance record by unveiling the farthest galaxy, which may be over 13 billion years old.
An international team has pushed back the cosmic frontier of galaxy exploration to a time when the universe was only 5 percent of its present age, and discovered an exceptionally luminous galaxy, EGS-zs8-1.
The team determined its exact distance from Earth using the powerful MOSFIRE instrument on the W.M. Keck Observatory`s 10-meter telescope in Hawaii. It is the most distant galaxy currently measured.

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