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Image Credit: metamorworks/Shutterstock.com The success or failure of an autonomous vehicle currently depends on how effectively its driving system can handle split-second decisions in hazardous situations. To make driverless cars safer and more commercially viable, the AUTOVISION Spearhead Project from the Europe-based Graphene Flagship consortium is currently creating a new graphene-based, high-resolution image sensor. It will help to quickly identify obstacles and abrupt road changes, even ...

Robust Software Design Necessary for Multithreaded Software Visual Trace Diagnostics Can Assist in Design Verification Västerås, Sweden, 4 May 2021   * * *   Percepio ® CEO Dr. Johan Kraft will present a selection of best practices in multithreaded embedded software design at the upcoming Embedded Online Conference, 17–20 May. Dr. Kraft will also discuss the concept of visual trace diagnostics and demonstrate how it can be used to analyze multithreaded software design in order to imp...

Wooden satellites: Can space answer NZs productivity question? 13 minutes to read OPINION: On April 14 this year, just two days after the 60th anniversary of the first human space flight by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, more than 100 Kiwis attended the Auckland Aerospace event in Auckland. Since those days of Gagarin and Nasas original Mercury 7 astronauts, humans have extended their reach a fair way, including creating something of a traffic ja...

 It comes as something of a shock to learn that Michael Collins – the US astronaut who manned the Apollo 11 command module orbiting the Moon while fellow astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the lunar surface – died at age 90, on 28 April. The space flight the three had carried out on the backs of a vast cooperative effort – that included thousands of technicians, scientists and engineers – was the first time humans had left Earth to arrive at another entirely diffe...

29 April 2021, 04:04 am This April, NASAs Ingenuity helicopter has successfully finished its third flight to Mars. The team behind this technology considered this as a huge improvement that they have achieved. The demo project needs first to meet all three objectives to rule it out as successful.  While we are surprised by the spacecrafts most recent flight, the Ingenuity team seems to be wanting more discoveries on the red planet. At the time, they wanted to conduct a fourth test flight to fu...

In February, NASA made history with the successful landing of a car-sized robotic explorer on Mars, and its counterpart: a small helicopter that more recently proved powered flight is possible even in the thin atmosphere of Mars. Together this dynamic duo will unlock even more of the Red Planet’s secrets. The Ingenuity helicopter, a technology demonstration, is set to make a second, more complex flight next week. Meanwhile, the Perseverance rover showed that it definitely has MOXIE in more wa...

Perseverance Mars rover makes oxygen on another planet Its mini helicopter Ingenuity made history this week by achieving the first powered flight on another planet. NASAs Perseverance rover keeps making history. The six-wheeled robot has converted some carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into oxygen, the first time this has happened on another planet, the space agency said Wednesday. "This is a critical first step at converting carbon dioxide to oxygen on Mars," said Jim Reuter, associat...

NASAs Ingenuity helicopter completed its first flight on Mars on April 19, 2021 (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA made history on April 19, 2021, by conducting the first controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet. In what is being described as a "Wright brothers moment," the tissue-box-sized Ingenuity gradually ascended to an altitude of 9.8 feet (3 meters) above the surface of Mars and hovered for 30 seconds before gracefully descending to land on its four legs. Since it was imposs...

NASA Ingenuity helicopter will test its limits tomorrow with second flight Following its initial success, NASA is already planning a second flight with its Mars Ingenuity helicopter. The next flight, which will take place tomorrow, April 22, will take Ingenuity farther off the ground and tilt it sideways a bit to fly at an angle. NASA plans to share the results from the test flight on its Mars Perseverance website. On April 19, the Ingenuity helicopter conducted its first flight on Mars, one th...

Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter 22 Apr 2021, 16:45 NASAS Perseverance Mars rover has created oxygen from thin air, paving the way for future manned missions to the planet. The $2billion robot converted carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the US space agency said on Wednesday. Get all the latest Science news Keep up-to-date with the top Space & Astronomy stories All the latest Archaelogy news from dinosaurs to Ancient artefacts 2 ...