News tagged with maneuvers


Faster Than The Speed Of Sound: New Control System Has What It Takes To Guide Experimental Aircraft

Faster Than The Speed Of Sound: New Control System Has What It Takes To Guide Experimental Aircraft

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- When a jet is flying faster than the speed of sound, one small mistake can tear it apart. And when the jet is so experimental that it must fly unmanned, only a computer control system can ...


Scientists start to unlock secrets of bird flight (AP)

Scientists start to unlock secrets of bird flight

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 6

(AP) -- For millennia, people have watched the birds and bees and wondered: "How do they do that?" Thanks to high-speed film and some persistent scientists, at least one of the secrets of flight is now revealed. ...





Search results for maneuvers


NASA to televise Jules Verne maneuvers

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 27, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The U.S. space agency said it will televise a series of maneuvers by the European Space Agency's Jules Verne spacecraft next week.


Test Mars Rover Checks Pivoting Technique

Test Mars Rover Checks Pivoting Technique

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The Mars rover team is using a test rover at JPL to assess various extraction techniques that might get Spirit out of the loose soil of "Troy" on Mars.


Rover Tests Evaluating Crabwalk Moves

Rover Tests Evaluating Crabwalk Moves

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

On firm ground, NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers can make crablike moves by turning all four steerable wheels to the same side angle, then rotating the wheels either forward or backward.


Free Spirit: Next Step: Combinations of Basic Moves

Free Spirit: Next Step: Combinations of Basic Moves

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

As the Mars rover team uses testing at JPL to evaluate possible ways to drive Spirit out of loose soil on Mars, the team is finishing tests of individual "building block" maneuvers and is about to begin stringing ...


Longer Tests Beginning

Free Spirit: Longer Rover Tests Beginning

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars rover team members have begun a new phase of testing at JPL -- using longer-duration experiments -- in their preparations for driving Spirit again on Mars.


Mars and Earth Activities Aim to Get Spirit Rolling Again

Mars and Earth Activities Aim to Get Spirit Rolling Again

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's rover project team is using the Spirit rover and other spacecraft at Mars to begin developing the best maneuvers for extracting Spirit from the soft Martian ground where it has become ...


SMART-1

SMART-1 Maneuvers Prepare For Mission End

Space & Earth /

created Jun 26, 2006 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

After 16 months orbiting the Moon, ESA's lunar mission is preparing for the end of its scientific exploration. Last Monday, SMART-1 mission controllers initiated a 17-day series of maneuvers aimed at positioning ...


Mock CPR drills in kids show many residents fail in key skills

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center exposes alarming gaps in training hospital residents in "first response" emergency treatment of staged cardiorespiratory arrests in children, while at the same time offering ...


This image provided by NASA, shows a partial view of Space Shuttle Endeavour

Space shuttle Endeavour readies return to Earth

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The space shuttle Endeavour undocked from the International Space Station on Tuesday to take photographs of the orbiting research facility before final maneuvers to prepare its return home.


Free Spirit Testing Nearing Completion

Free Spirit Testing Nearing Completion

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mars rover engineers at JPL are winding down testing of different escape maneuvers using a test rover in a sand box filled with soil to mimic the Martian surface. It is possible that in early August the first ...



List of search results for maneuvers