Malaysia explores collaboration with China in UAV technology
11 Sep
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Malaysia explores collaboration with China in UAV technology

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Technology tamfitronics SHANGHAI: Malaysia continues exploring the field of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone technology through collaboration with China, focusing on the exchange and sharing of expertise and technology. Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said that the collaboration between MARA Aerospace & Technologies Sdn Bhd and the third-largest UAV technology company in China, Honeycomb Aerospace Technologies (Beijing) Co Ltd, will enable Malaysia to locally develop such a technology. He said that the technology is widely used in agriculture and border areas and this collaboration will allow Malaysia to develop UAV technology to meet local and international market demands. For a start, the company will transfer the technology to the University Kuala Lumpur Malaysian Institute of Aviation Technology (UniKL MIAT), Sepang, to train students in UAV production. Next month,...
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NASA Explores Industry, Partner Interest in Using VIPER Moon Rover
10 Aug
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NASA Explores Industry, Partner Interest in Using VIPER Moon Rover

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NASA Space Technology As part of its commitment to a robust, sustainable lunar exploration program for the benefit of all, NASA issued a Request for Information Friday to seek interest from American companies and institutions in conducting a mission using the agency’s VIPER Moon rover.VIPER, short for Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, was designed to map the location and concentration of potential off-planet resources, like ice, on the South Pole of Earth’s Moon. NASA announced July 17 its intent to discontinue VIPER, and to pursue alternative methods to verify the presence of frozen water at the lunar South Pole, but could contribute the VIPER rover as-is to an interested partner.From July 17 to Aug. 1, NASA accepted expressions of interest from the broader community in using the existing VIPER rover system. The Request for Information...
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Webb Explores Stellar Inhabitants of NGC 6440
02 May
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Webb Explores Stellar Inhabitants of NGC 6440

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Top Stories Tamfitronics NGC 6440 is a conventional wide, obscured and contemptible globular cluster fashioned and orbiting at some stage in the bulge of our Milky Manner Galaxy.This Webb image reveals NGC 6440, a globular cluster located 27,625 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / P. Freire / M. Cadelano / C. Pallanca.NGC 6440 is located approximately 8,470 parsecs (27,625 light-years) away in the constellation of Sagittarius.Furthermore incessantly known as C 1746-203 or GCl 77, this globular cluster changed into once came across by the German-born British astronomer William Herschel on Would possibly maybe even just 28, 1786.NGC 6440 has an obvious magnitude of about 10, with a diameter of about 6 arcminutes.“Globular clusters fancy NGC 6440 are roughly spherical, tightly packed, collections of old...
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