News - 2013 Archive - Page 2

Jim Erickson, of Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), said that the rover Curiosity had previously stored samples for when the rover had time to look at them.

A Brookings Institution study prepared by USAF Colonel Bradley Hoagland found that there is an insufficient number UAV pilots to keep up with the demand. This is attributed to a “high rate of attrition” and the “intense tempo of operations.”

Dan Caron, a technology and engineering teacher at Bedford High School, has been named Civil Air Patrol's Aerospace Education Teacher of the Year. This is a national-level award that recognizes a teacher member for outstanding accomplishments in aerospace education and for possessing the attributes expected from our country’s teachers. Caron...

A Chinese Long March-4C rocket launched from northern Taiyuan Space Center carrying three secretive, experimental satellites: SY-7, CX-3 and SJ-7. The SY-7 wields a robot-manipulator arm developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Back in 2007, China conducted an ASAT or Anti-satellite test against one of its own satellites. The...