LiDAR VNS System Should Make Docking Spacecraft At ISS
Easier
For the past two years, NASA engineers and contractors have
worked together to develop a technology that would make it easier
for future space vehicles to dock to the International Space
Station. Their solution, the Vision Navigation Sensor (VNS) will be
tested on the STS-134 mission scheduled for July.
AIA tells ANN that the nation's top 100 student rocketry teams
will compete in the final round of the Team America Rocketry
Challenge (TARC). The finalists include teams from 30 states and
the U.S. Virgin Islands who qualified after months of preparation
from a field of 669 squads and thousands of students.
NASA's Global Hawk Completes First Scientific Flight
The first of five scientific flights by NASA's Global Hawk
autonomous UAV scheduled this month was completed successfully on
Wednesday. The aircraft flew just over 14 hours high above the
Pacific Ocean on an atmospheric study mission ... dubbed
GloPac.
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