NASA Drone Aids California Firefighting Effort
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A Predator B unmanned aircraft, outfitted with imaging equipment that can see through smoke, is flying over Southern California to help fight the area's raging wildfires.
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Pentagon video released Tuesday showed the dramatic rescue of two U.S. helicopter pilots after their aircraft went down amid insurgent fire.
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NASA crews Thursday shipped to California the first bits of recovered scientific data from the Genesis probe crash in Utah&#39;s west desert earlier this month, according to a NASA news release.
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Thousands of firefighters aided by aircraft worked Friday in fierce heat to keep two big wildfires from gaining a foothold in the heavily populated San Bernardino Mountains, where millions of trees killed by drought and bark beetles could provide explosive fuel.
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BOCA CHICA KEY, Fla. -- Drones are better known for their role in pursuing military targets, but scientists here are poised to launch them into the raging vortexes of hurricanes.
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The space agency taps Lockheed Martin and MD Robotics to build robotic technology it may use to repair the ailing Hubble Space Telescope. By Amit Asaravala.
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NEW YORK -- A New York City Police Department helicopter with an ultra-sensitive radiation detector affixed to its tail whipped through a wintry sky over Lower Manhattan last month, hunting block by block through the concrete canyons of Wall Street for a black SUV containing the components of a h...
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Although GPS and computer modeling technology can be used to help track the wildfires raging in California, the blazes are burning so fiercely that IT is playing little role in putting them out.
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MOJAVE, California -- A Southern California aerospace team took a big step toward capturing the $10 million Ansari X Prize Wednesday, but not without surviving a scary moment when the pilot found himself in a rapid spin as he roared across the threshold
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It's a frustrated commuter's escapist fantasy: literally lifting your car out of a clogged highway and soaring through the skies, landing just in time to motor into your driveway. NASA and Boeing are planning to make this fantasy a reality.
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Firefighters tightened their grip on a massive forest fire in northern California on Friday, with calm weather assisting efforts to contain the blaze, US Forest Service officials said.
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UC Berkeley is working on a helicopter that can guide itself through cities. Will automated traffic reports be next?
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Unmanned aerial vehicles and other remote-controlled weapons are part of a high-tech arsenal the U.S. military is developing to help minimize casualties in battles with insurgents.
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An unmanned Nasa jet screamed into the record books high over the Pacific Ocean by reaching speeds of almost 7000 mph, brightening hopes that humans might one day be able to fly across a continent in minutes instead of hours.
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A new vehicle capable of hovering 10ft off the ground and carrying passengers may go on sale in California later this year.
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NASA is working to solve a potentially dangerous vibration problem in its next generation of launching vehicles.
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LOS ANGELES An unmanned NASA jet that set a speed record of almost seven-thousand miles per hour was built by a Tennessee company.