DMSP Flight-19’s Due Diligence Defines Anomaly Cause
The anomaly team determined there was a power failure within the command and control system that affected onboard cryptographic equipment.
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DARPA Helping Aircraft To Automatically Avoid Mid-Air Collisions
The integrated sense-and-avoid (SAA) system includes a single optical camera that provides imagery for detection and tracking.
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Orion Spacecraft Support @ NASA’s Stennis Space Center Is All Fired Up
Earlier this fall, Stennis engineers completed a series of tests on a subscale diffuser system.
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KVH’s FOG-Based Inertial Navigation Systems Can Roll + Pitch For Demanding Unmanned + Autonomous Applications
a proven inertial measurement unit incorporating three axes of KVH’s DSP-1750 FOG—the world’s smallest high-performance fiber optic gyro—with three axes of advanced accelerometer technology.<br />
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NASA’s Nodes… Small Satellites To Demonstrate Swarm Communications + Autonom
A first for small satellites, Nodes will demonstrate the ability to receive and distribute commands in space from the ground...
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NASA’s Challenge To 54 Lucky Students…Design, Construct, Test, Launch + Recover Reusable Rocket + Its Payload
The MAV challenge requires teams to develop an autonomous system to insert a sample container into their rocket, launch and safely recover both the sample and the rocket.
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ORS Cuts + Slashes Cost + Time To Launch
This has allowed ORS to reduce spacecraft by more than 60 percent.
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A New System To Manage Low Altitude Drones Is Being Tackled By NASA
“NASA wants to create a system that would keep track of and deliver important information to operators of UAS."—Parimal Kopardekar, Manage, NASA’s Safe Autonomous Systems Operations project.
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Kratos’s EPOCH Adventure w/Japanese Micros… A “Hetero Constellation” Experiment
The EPOCH T&C Server and the EPOCH Client modules provide command and control for the satellites.
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Russia Cancels Resupply Cargo Craft That’s Out Of Control…Unable To Deliver Goods… Spins 360 Degrees Every 5 Seconds
The scheduled rendezvous with the ISS was canceled as Russian officials try to regain control of the craft.
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