Onboard visual state estimation can save your quadrotor from a crash—and doesn’t need GPS to do it.
A fragment of a large, long-period comet was most likely responsible for the impactor that killed off the dinosaurs.
Changing literally everything to get emissions to zero.
“Without innovation, we will not solve climate change. We won’t even come close,” Gates says. Anderson Cooper reports for 60 Minutes. https://cbsn.ws/3qnNDyG
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Instead of firing missiles, planes may carry and launch unmanned drones that will be able to shoot their own missiles to search and destroy targets.
Aerospace giant Northrop Grumman is wasting no time in this competition.
Just two days after DARPA named it as one of three competitors for the LongShot contract, the company released an image of its concept for an air-launched unmanned aircraft system (UAS), Aviation Week reported.
Imagine an unmanned aircraft, speeding ahead of its launch aircraft, that itself can fire multiple air-to-air intercept missiles that can seek out and destroy.
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Neil Tyson is a man to listen to!!
Astrophysicist that I have learned much from.
Check out his documentary series: COSMOS.
Using the pressure of the sun’s rays to propel spacecraft, solar sails will allow future unmanned missions to be longer and cheaper while reaching the outer solar system—and possibly beyond.
#Moonshot #Space #BloombergQuicktake.
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Thanks to the rise of commercial spaceflight, anyone with a little luck will be able to fly into space, all to serve a good cause.
Definitely watch it for the sense of isolation when our technology bubble evaporates and for the “comb jelly” space alien.