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Since soldiers often have to go through all kinds of places during a mission, and since they can't be expected to carry around a truckload of supplies, DARPA is thinking of giving them pack mules.
Not just any pack mules, though, but robotic ones. Mules that are essentially quadropod machines.
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9 February 2012
08:33 GMT |
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Experts with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) say that they want to create a new type of telescope technology, one that would enable them to complete Phoenix. The latter is a project that seeks to reclaim and reuse old satellite parts for creating new spacecraft.
These new vehicles would b... |
21 January 2012
05:27 GMT |
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Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation, which is working under a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract to develop the Membrane Optic Imager Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE) telescope, announces the completion of the Preliminary Design Review (PDR).
This is a critically important milestone fo... |
13 December 2011
03:12 GMT |
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The United States may soon become capable of striking any country on the globe within less than an hour, thanks to the successful completion of a new test flight. The maneuver involved a hypersonic aircraft that has been under development for many years.
The original concept was managed by the US Defense Advanced R... |
18 November 2011
09:19 GMT |
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The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency(DARPA) came to the conclusion that the networks which encapsulate the most sensitive information the United States has to offer are highly vulnerable in front of cyberattacks, so they decided to have a meeting to discuss the ways in which this infrastructure can be best p... |
8 November 2011
03:37 GMT |
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Experts with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are currently considering a new proposal for delivering satellites into space. The approach would rely on using airplanes for the job, rather than regular rockets.
The Pentagon agency is constantly on the look-out for new options on strengthening... |
8 November 2011
03:16 GMT |
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency of the United States Department of Defense orientated towards the development of futuristic gadgets, has announced that it is a few years away from launching its innovative prototype of car which flies and resists the attack of small fire weapons. As soon... |
27 October 2011
07:41 GMT |
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One possible method of fighting against debris clogging up Earth's low orbit would be to cannibalize defunct satellites for components that are still active, valuable, and operational. These parts could then be assembled into new spacecraft, a new proposal says.
The US Department of Defense's (DOD) Defense... |
21 October 2011
02:59 GMT |
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A group of Christian thinkers gathered over the weekend at the 100-Year Starship Symposium organized by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) said that finding alien life forms would be a great challenge to the very perceived existence of God.
Most of the world's religions would be affecte... |
3 October 2011
03:47 GMT |
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Speaking at the 100-Year Starship Symposium held over the weekend, researchers drew attention to some of the challenges associated with multi-generation, long-term space exploration. One of these issues is human reproduction, since the spacecraft's population would have to be replenished in space.
Reaching an... |
3 October 2011
03:26 GMT |
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Investigators at the Brown University are hard at work in developing new approaches to healing damage caused in the human brain by adverse events such as injuries and stroke. They received a grant to finance their research less than a year ago, and they are already making important progress.
The university receive... |
19 September 2011
14:21 GMT |
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On August 11, engineers and scientists with the US Air Force and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) tested a hypersonic aircraft that was supposed to break all speed records. Though the test failed, the aircraft apparently managed to reach a top speed of Mach 20.That is the equivalent of 20 time... |
19 August 2011
08:00 GMT |
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A test flight that took place yesterday, August 11, on the western coast of the United States, ended in failure for the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The organization was testing its new hypersonic aircraft prototype, a vehicle built to travel at Mach 20.If successful, the project could ... |
12 August 2011
10:20 GMT |
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Officials at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announce plans to carry out a new test flight of an unmanned bomber, the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2). The design calls for the creation of a spacecraft/aircraft platform that is capable of using scramjet technology to travel at s... |
11 August 2011
08:09 GMT |
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As many know by now, the American space agency and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency are engaged in the earliest stages of a project that aims to build a starship within a century. Now, DARPA is calling for more proposals to be discussed later on. This is yet another step in the $1 million 100-Year Sta... |
17 June 2011
07:10 GMT |
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A special branch of the United States military and the American space agency are working together on making interstellar space travel possible within the next century or so. As part of this initiative, they collaboration is now calling for proposals on the technologies that should be pursued to this end.
There ar... |
12 May 2011
02:42 GMT |
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Over the past couple of years or so, the threat of space junk and debris has been looming increasingly threatening above our planet, and astronomers have been growing equally as concerned about this. Now, an American agency is trying to set the foundations of a new monitoring network. The US Defense Advanced Research... |
15 April 2011
04:26 GMT |
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The American space agency has a new and simple plan – to become capable of flying among the stars by 2100. Working together with a Pentagon agency, NASA has already began the study phase for the 100-Year Starship project.Flying to other stars is not a very easy task, and there are monumental challenges to be su... |
23 March 2011
09:41 GMT |
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A consortium of government and private organizations and agencies in the United States is gearing up for the second test flight of an aircraft that utilizes a new type of engine. Scramjets have been proposed for years, but actually building one proved to be a lot more difficult than engineers thought. This technology... |
23 March 2011
05:14 GMT |
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The United States Air Force (USAF) launched its second unmanned space plane on Friday, March 5, from California. The flight, which is still surrounded in secrecy, managed to reach orbit successfully. Officials with the Air Force say that the mini-shuttle, as it's called, took off from the Cape Canaveral Air For... |
7 March 2011
02:45 GMT |
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Officials in the United States are currently getting ready for the upcoming launch of the second unmanned X-37B spacecraft. The craft, which many believes acts as a spy plane in orbit, comes shortly after the successful landing of the first X-37B.Officially, it is called the US Air Force X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (O... |
1 March 2011
10:53 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the University of Houston is currently engaged in researching and developing advanced prosthetic devices, that their users could control by the power of their minds alone. The study is being carried out for the Pentagon. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is provid... |
12 January 2011
01:44 GMT |
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A governmental agency recently announced that it's currently pursuing the development of a technology that would see video cameras being endowed with visual intelligence. This would allow the control software to process the information it collects in novel ways.If successful, the new endeavor will see the creati... |
6 January 2011
06:35 GMT |
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The United States Air Force (USAF) may recover its robotic space plane as soon as this weekend, according to an announcement made by officials. The X-37B spacecraft has been circling Earth since April, and it is now scheduled to land in California as soon as Friday, December 3.This was the maiden voyage for the new s... |
1 December 2010
03:26 GMT |
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With the new buzz circling the Internet about the secretive X-37B space plane belonging to the US Air Force, interest in the spacecraft has been boosted to new heights. Some specialists are beginning to wonder whether a robot of this type is actually needed or not. The secretive nature of the X-37B project has fascin... |
30 November 2010
02:54 GMT |
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Some United States Air Force (USAF) officials recently made announcements that led experts to believe that the experimental spy spacecraft that was launched in orbit on April 22 is nearing its mission's end. In the mean time, the unmanned spy plane continues to maneuver in Earth's orbit, changing course and... |
23 November 2010
06:56 GMT |
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As days pass by, it becomes ever more clear that Nvidia is dead serious when it comes down to GPGPU computing, the company just entering into a DARPA founded competition to build a exascale computer chip against the likes of Intel, MIT and Sandia National Labs.Dubbed Echelon, this chip was detailed by Nvidia's c... |
18 November 2010
05:00 GMT |
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Google announcement that it has a team working on testing autonomous vehicles came as quite a surprise for most people, but, while some praised the company for such a bold move, others have asked why would Google do something like this in the first place since it's unlikely to wield it any monetary results in th... |
11 October 2010
10:44 GMT |
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Google may seem an unlikely company to take on the challenge of autonomous vehicles. But when you look at the team the company has put together, it's clear that Google is very much at the forefront of research in the field. "To develop this technology, we gathered some of the very best engineers from the DARPA C... |
11 October 2010
07:02 GMT |
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Over the weekend, Google has unveiled one of its most ambitious projects to date, autonomous vehicles. The technology company has a fleet of seven cars which have clocked in 140,000 miles on public roads in California as well as in more controlled environments. "Our automated cars use video cameras, radar sensors and... |
11 October 2010
06:21 GMT |
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It's no secret that Google is working on a lot of technologies in a number of fields, from green tech to aerospace engineering. You can add a new one to the list, Google has just revealed that it has been working on self-driving cars for the past few years. Lead by Sebastian Thrun, a Google engineer who also hea... |
11 October 2010
04:47 GMT |
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Two days ago, on September 14, officials at the Boeing Company and DARPA signed an agreement that made the corporation the main contractor on developing and flying the Solar Eagle.The project for this unmanned aircraft is part of the Vulture II demonstration program, that is being conducted by experts at the US Defen... |
16 September 2010
10:58 GMT |
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The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has just awarded a team of experts at the Biodesign Institute with a $5.3 million grant or studying the spread of infectious diseases. The work is to be especially focused on doing this on the battlefield, to protect warfighters deployed in operations theaters ... |
14 September 2010
06:51 GMT |
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According to NASA chief technologist Robert Braun, the American space agency just received approval for funding destined for eight research projects that senior officials at the organization are simply eager to being completing. Some of these projects include collaborations with the US Department of Defense's (D... |
28 August 2010
05:18 GMT |
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Scientists at DARPA are proposing the development and construction of a new type of construction facility, that could build everything from synthetic blood to tanks at the push of a button. The crew working for the US Defense Advanced Researcher Agency is not known for coming up with realistic projects that make sens... |
27 August 2010
08:37 GMT |
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According to reports coming in from experienced satellite trackers, it would appear that the X-37B robotic space plane has recently moved to a new orbit around the planet. The concept associated with the vehicle was first developed at NASA, but the organization passed on the projects to colleagues at the Defense Adva... |
24 August 2010
05:05 GMT |
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Twelve space vehicles carrying 200 giants nets each, could remove orbiting space junk and make way for a future space elevator, scientists from Star Inc., a company that is receiving funding for the project from DARPA, stated last Friday at the annual Space Elevator conference.DARPA is the research and development pr... |
17 August 2010
09:24 GMT |
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HPC world-class player SGI, along with Intel, recently announced that they are partnering with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in order to come up with a new computing architecture for supercomputing, which essentially means that NVIDIA has its work cut out for it.NVIDIA has long been advocatin... |
16 August 2010
05:08 GMT |
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NVIDIA has been, for some time, going on about the benefits that GPU computing modules can bring to High-Performance Computing applications. Several supercomputers that employ the massive parallel processing capabilities of such solutions have already emerged. Now, apparently intrigued by the possibilities offered b... |
10 August 2010
05:26 GMT |
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With the successful testing of the X-51A Waverider aircraft, the United States Air Force (USAF) is currently trembling in anticipation of the future of warfare. Analysts believe that the recent test flight, which saw that craft break down the world record for the longest hypersonic flight, will allow engineers a soli... |
17 June 2010
07:35 GMT |
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The United States Air Force (USAF) announces that its new experimental aircraft X-51A Waverider managed to break the world record for the longest hypersonic flight ever. The machine, which is powered by a highly-advanced propulsion system known as a scramjet, managed to fly for more than three minutes at Mach 5 on We... |
28 May 2010
06:23 GMT |
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Creating a viable and efficient scramjet engine is not something that can be done easily. Experts from numerous countries have been working for decades on getting working prototypes up and running, but thus far most of their attempts have failed. Apparently, scientists in the United States managed to nail it, as the ... |
18 May 2010
03:42 GMT |
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Today, officials at the leading privately-held space technology company Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) announced that the first Minotaur IV delivery system had been successfully launched for a government contractor. With this successful flight, the Minotaur rocket family's launch record is extended to 17 fla... |
28 April 2010
06:40 GMT |
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The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently announced plans to support the development of a new type of intelligent video cameras that are to be used on robotic devices. The agency says that these instruments could be used to give robots a sense of perception, which should help them make better ... |
19 March 2010
15:01 GMT |
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The Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) is at this point the home of two very important space vehicles, each of which still needs to prove its worth in a first test flight. If the missions are successful, then one of the spacecraft would ensure that uninterrupted access of American astronauts to the Internationa... |
15 March 2010
02:47 GMT |
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Experts at the American space agency, working in collaboration with scientists from General Motors, announce the development of robonauts, robotic helpers perfectly suited for the precise labor required from astronauts working in orbit. The new instruments could be suited for a wide variety of tasks, that could see t... |
6 February 2010
03:29 GMT |
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Scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are currently meeting to discuss the challenges associated with cleaning up the Earth's orbit. The talks are scheduled to take place between December 8-10, in Chantilly, Va, and they... |
9 December 2009
01:40 GMT |
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The vast distances in the Universe constitute the main obstacles in devising and sending out space missions to other stars or planetary systems. Until mankind would have a permanent base on the Moon, from where to send out space explorers, we are doomed to have to launch all probes on rockets that burn massive amount... |
12 November 2009
02:57 GMT |
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When civilian companies manage a breakthrough that allows their spacecraft to go to the Earth's orbit, and then come back to the ground unharmed, they are sure to let everyone know about it. This does not seem to be the case with the United State Air Force (USAF), which develops its X-37B project under the cover... |
24 October 2009
02:17 GMT |
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NASA’s Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) was at its time one of the best places to be, if you were an expert concerned with resolving space-related problems. Originally thought of as a means of scientists working together towards innovating the way we look at space travel, over time, the center became a pl... |
11 August 2009
02:42 GMT |
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