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[/] IEEE.org | IEEE Xplore Digital Library | IEEE Standards | IEEE Spectrum | More Sites Follow on: Advertisement Engineering Topics Special Reports Blogs Multimedia The Magazine Professional Resources Search Aerospace SUBTOPICS: Astrophysics Aviation Military Robotic Exploration Satellites Space Flight Sort by Most: Recent Viewed Commented Layout Type: organic layout grid layout Aerospace Europe's Comet-Chasing Probe Arrives After 10-Year Trek The Rosetta spacecraft will begin triangular maneuvers to prepare for landing 12 Aug Aerospace Robotic Telescope Captures Clear Images of Exoplanet Stars Gigantic robot telescope researches hundreds of targets per night 11 Aug Advertisement Aerospace NASA's Abandoned ISEE-3 Spacecraft To Fly Past Moon The crowd-funded effort to redirect the probe fizzled, but science will continue 7 Aug Aerospace Frank Malina: America's Forgotten Rocketeer How Malina and his unlikely team of researchers and enthusiasts laid the foundation for the U.S. space program 31 Jul Robotics Scholars Say No to FAA's Model Aircraft Regulations Educators voice their objections to new rules for small drones 30 Jul Aerospace Red Planet Seeks a Better Data Plan NASA requests proposals for commercial Mars communications network 29 Jul Geek Life World War I: The War of the Inventors Many of the Great War’s technologies were conceived earlier, but the rigors of battle accelerated their development 28 Jul At Work Mimicking the Super Hearing of a Cricket-Hunting Fly Researchers build a silicon version of nature’s most acute sound-location system 25 Jul Computing Senate Condemns US Air Force ECSS Program Management’s Incompetence Underwhelming executive leadership studiously ignored its own risk mitigation plans, 21 Jul Aerospace Freeman Dyson Predicts the Future IEEE Spectrum asks the celebrated physicist what the next 50 years will hold 18 Jul Aerospace UK: Let's Make a Spaceport! Four years from now England, Scotland, or Wales (but probably Scotland) could be home to Europe's first commercial spaceplane cosmodrome 16 Jul Geek Life Hackaday Prize Competition Gears Up Prevail in this DIY engineering competition and you'll win a trip into space 14 Jul Aerospace Fresh Hope for an Abandoned NASA Spacecraft A citizen group's attempts to fire ISEE-3's thrusters failed, but it might still be possible to bring it home 10 Jul Advertisement Aerospace Boeing Gets $2.8 Billion to Help Build World's Most Powerful Rocket Boeing received a $2.8 billion contract to build the core stage of NASA's huge rocket designed to take humans to Mars 8 Jul Aerospace No Tech Solution for Civilian IED Threat 53,000 civilians were killed by IEDs in the past three years, and military countermeasures don't help 7 Jul Computing Thousands of Bags Miss Flights at Heathrow Terminal 5 Again Awakens bad memories of T5 baggage system meltdown of 2008 3 Jul Robotics North Carolina Set to Outlaw Hunting and Fishing Drones NC State House passes some novel drone regulations 3 Jul Energy NASA Launches Carbon-Tracking Satellite The satellite will provide better intelligence on natural sources and sinks for CO2 2 Jul Aerospace That Toy Is Now a Drone, Says the FAA A Federal Aviation Administration announcement makes video-piloted models subject to regulation 27 Jun Aerospace The Fires of Apollo How the race to the moon played out in the pages of IEEE Spectrum 19 Jun Aerospace U.S. Military Wants Laser-Armed Humvees to Shoot Down Drones The U.S. Office of Naval Research is developing an anti-drone laser weapon for Humvees and future ground vehicles 16 Jun Aerospace Space Station Laser Beams Video Message to Earth The International Space Station used a laser to transmit a 175-megabit video down to Earth in a new space communications demonstration 12 Jun Semiconductors Nanotubes Capture Terahertz Radiation Simple array of nanotubes sense terahertz with no external power needed, could make security scanners cheaper 11 Jun Aerospace Google and Satellite-Imaging Startup Skybox Go From Neighbors to Family Google's $500 million purchase of Skybox will give the search giant faster updates of map images and a path to worldwide Internet access 11 Jun Aerospace Satellites Watch for Warnings of Volcano Eruptions Satellite measurements of a lava lake's temperature could help predict future volcanic eruptions 10 Jun Aerospace Report: NASA Needs Vision, “Horizon” to Get to Mars New study advocates greater international collaboration and bold leadership to return humans beyond low-earth orbit 9 Jun At Work Silicon Valley Luminaries Predict Next Big Thing Contenders include Bitcoin, SMAC (yes, a new acronym), and the coming of age of AI (finally) 6 Jun Aerospace Google Lunar Race Teams Discuss Next Steps, House on the Moon A little red house on the moon? 5 Jun Aerospace Google Aims for Billion Dollar Satellite Fleet to Spread Internet Access Google wants to spread Internet access the globe by investing between $1 billion and $3 billion in possibly hundreds of satellites 4 Jun Aerospace Solar Plane With Global Aims Makes First Flight Solar Impulse 2 makes two-hour inaugural flight in Switzerland 3 Jun Aerospace Apollo 13, We Have a Solution: Part 3 1 Apr 2005 Topics Aerospace At Work Biomedical Computing Energy Gadgets Geek Life Robotics Semiconductors Telecom Connect Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Google+ RSS IEEE Spectrum Contact Us About Newsletters Mobile Site IEEE Partners Advertising & Media Center IEEE Job Site Buyer’s Guide The Magazine Subscribe Now Digital Download © Copyright 2014 IEEE Spectrum Terms & Conditions | Privacy & Security | Nondiscrimination Policy About IEEE Conferences & Events Education & Careers Membership & Services Publications and Standards Societies & Communities