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Twenty robotics teams, ranging from university students to small businesses, are currently taking part in NASA Sample Return Robot Challenge for a cash prize of $1.5m.

Drives have been a key technology for industrial engineers for many years but Matt Handley of Mitsubishi Electric thinks they can be underappreciated. Here he highlights some of the interesting facts about them.

Space debris is the collection of objects travelling at up to 17,500 mph in orbit around Earth, including spent rocket stages, old satellites, fragments from disintegration and more. According to NASA, there are more than 20,000 pieces of debris larger than 10cm and 500,000 pieces of debris larger than 1cm being tracked, as well as the many millions of pieces of debris that are too small to be tracked.

STI Electronics will exhibit in Booth #527 at the 2015Space & Missile Defense Symposium, scheduled to take place 10th to 13th August, 2015 at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, AL. Company representatives will discuss STI’s Engineering Services and Training Resources divisions.

Radiation hardened (rad hard) multiplexers, claimed to offer the industry’s highest signal chain accuracy and timing performance, have been introduced by Intersil. The ISL71840SEH and ISL71841SEH provide outstanding ESD protection.

A range of new road safety technology research projects that are being developed to reduce the number of accidents caused by drivers who are stressed, distracted and not concentrating on the road ahead has been revealed by Jaguar Land Rover.The Jaguar Land Rover 'Sixth Sense' research projects utilises advanced technology, from sports, medicine and aerospace, to monitor the driver's heart rate, respiration and levels of brain activity to identify...

NuWaves Engineering announced that it has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from NASA to develop and prototype a miniature linear and high-efficiency C-band PA to provide communication range extension for a variety of NASA missions and applications, including unmanned aircraft systems integration into the National Airspace System.

NASA's groundbreaking science mission to retrieve a sample from an ancient space rock has moved closer to fruition. The Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission has passed a critical milestone in its path towards launch, and is officially authorised to transition into its next phase.

The foundry division of ams AG, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS and the Space Research Institute (IWF) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) have jointly presented the very promising results of highly accurate measurements of the Earth’s magnetosphere from space, as part of NASA’s ‘Magnetospheric Multiscale’ mission launched in March 2015.

After extraordinary findings and technological innovations, a NASA spacecraft launched in 2004 to study Mercury will impact the planet’s surface, most likely on 30thApril 2015, after it runs out of propellant.NASA’sMErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging(MESSENGER) spacecraft will impact the planet at more than 8,750mph on the side of the planet facing away from Earth, out of view of engineers.