Curtin Uni student builds ‘folding’ robots as intern with NASA
A Curtin University mechatronics student has successfully completed a six-month research internship with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, learning to build disposable folding robots which may be deployed on future planetary missions.
VIDEO Interview: ASX liftoff hastens Sky and Space Global’s nano satellite dream
James Bond mixes satellites and sex, but Sky and Space Global will encircle the Earth’s equator using 200 nanosats with the help of Virgin Galactic.
VIDEO: Go ogle illegal fishing being tracked from space
Google, Skytruth and Oceana have joined forces to create ‘Global Fishing Watch’, which isn’t to display the best times for fishing on your smart watch but a big data platform leveraging satellite data to visualise, track and share info about fishing activity worldwide - legal or not.