News tagged with unmanned vehicle

Darpa to develop mobile millimeter-wave backhaul networks

Providing high-bandwidth communications for troops in remote forward operating locations is not only critical but also challenging because a reliable infrastructure optimized for remote geographic areas does ...

Technology / Telecom

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Researchers devise new means for creating elastic conductors

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new method for creating elastic conductors made of carbon nanotubes, which will contribute to large-scale production of the material for use ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Surfboard-sized drones crossing pacific to monitor sea surface

Hundreds of miles off the California coast, four drones about the size of surfboards and are tossing across the Pacific toward Hawaii, controlled by pilots on shore.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New research to help safer emergency aircraft landings

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) aviation researchers are developing an information system to help Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) make safer emergency landings and better enable their wider commercial use.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

NASA studies vegetation canopy water content, soil moisture

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists seeking insight into the role vegetation plays in water fluctuation between soil and the atmosphere recently conducted research using specialized sensors during a series of NASA ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An unmanned aerial vehicle that uses wind power like a bird

Queensland University of Technology PhD student Wesam Al Sabban is a genius and has the medal to prove it!

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 3

NASA unmanned aircraft measures low altitude greenhouse gases

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, NASA researchers have demonstrated the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to collect very low altitude airborne measurements of greenhouse gases at several sites in California and ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

No landing date yet for Air Force's mystery craft

A secretive unmanned space plane is staying in orbit a little longer.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 4

China launches two satellites: state media

China placed two satellites in orbit on Sunday, including a spacecraft that will collect and relay data for disaster relief efforts, state press reported.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 9

A labor saving way to monitor vast rangelands

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have found that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a tool used by the military, may be suitable for keeping an eye on changing land-use patterns across vast tracts of western ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Patented method transforms digital cameras for aerial color infrared photography

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and David Linden, a technical consultant currently serving as a chief scientist at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) in McLean, Va., have jointly ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

China to launch space station's first module

China said Tuesday it will launch its Tiangong-1 space module later this month, marking its first step towards building a Chinese space station.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 7

Texas-based defense contractor hacked by Anonymous

(AP) -- A Texas-based defense and aerospace firm says one of its top officials has had his email account broken into by the hacking group Anonymous.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Lockheed Martin develops maple-seed-like drone

The seeds that drop from maple trees each fall, whirring softly to the ground like silent one-winged helicopters, are the inspiration for a new kind of flying machine that could be useful for military information-gathering.

Electronics / Robotics

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 39

US looks for answers after hypersonic plane fails

Pentagon scientists on Friday acknowledged they were puzzled by the failed flight test of an experimental hypersonic plane and said they were trying to understand what went wrong. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 12, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 58