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ESI to Develop Robotic Technologies for Space Exploration

Engineering Services (ESI) has received CAD$3 million worth contract from the Canadian Space Agency to build archetypes of control stations, investigation tools and a robotic arm. Later these robotic technologies will be included in the land-based archetypes of Martian and lunar rovers.

From Engineering Services Inc. (ESI) 28 Oct 2010

Team FREDNET Receives ILDD Contract for Robotic Lunar Mission

Team Frednet, an open-source non-profit organization, has declared that it has received Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) contract from NASA offering the highest government procurement value of $10.01 million.

27 Oct 2010

Astrobotic Wins NASA’s Award to Develop a Moon Mining Robot

Astrobotic Technology has declared that it is one of the six global organizations to obtain NASA’s Phase II Small Business Innovation Research award for developing a robot to excavate water and methane from the poles of moon.

From Astrobotic Technology, Inc 22 Oct 2010

NASA Offers ILDD Contracts for Developing Future Robotic Lunar Missions

NASA has offered Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) contracts worth $30.1 million to six companies for procuring technical information for enhancing the efficiency of robotic vehicles and conducting uninterrupted future robotic landing missions to the moon.

19 Oct 2010

Storming Robots Team to Compete for the ZERO-Robotics Challenge

Storming Robots team has been chosen to contend at the ZERO-Robotics program, a science, technology, engineering, and math education program of MIT/NASA, which involves student-teams to develop software for programming Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) aboard the International Space Station.

13 Oct 2010

NASA to Conduct Final Review of Humanoid Carrying Discovery Mission

NASA has declared that it will conduct the final preview of its Discovery space shuttle mission during a sequence of news briefings to be held at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on October 21. Press reporters will be allowed during this session.

5 Oct 2010

Ball Aerospace Supports NASA/ESA Joint Robotic Mars Mission

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. has reported that it will offer significant support for NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) joint future robotic Mars mission.

28 Sep 2010

MDA to Assist CSA in Developing Robotic Mars Rover

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd, a global supplier of essential information solutions, has made a $6 million agreement with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) by providing innovative technological solutions for supporting CSA’s Exploration Surface Mobility program.

From MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. 24 Sep 2010

KinetX Commemorates Robotic Spacecraft’s First Comet Encounter

KinetX, Inc. sponsored a NASA conference which was held at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. in honor of the 25th centenary of the ISEE-3/ICE spacecraft’s interception with the Giacobini-Zinner comet.

22 Sep 2010

Microrobots Probe Environmental Risks

Engineers at Harvard University are researching on the development of microscopic aerial robots that could someday help to investigate environmental risks like forest fires and to perform rescue operations etc.

8 Sep 2010