Chandrayaan-1 gets back to work

" A day after landing India’s first probe instrument on the surface of the moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was on Saturday getting ready to activate eight other scientific instruments on board the country’s first unmanned lunar spacecraft,...

Chandrayaan successfully orbiting the moon

After a successful launch this is the icing on the cake for Indian Lunar Mission. ISRO has managed to place Chandrayaan in the Lunar mission. It is noteworthy that India has joined a select league of nationa like...

Railway turns to feline 'stationmaster' for help

" KINOKAWA, Japan -- In times of need, Japanese say they can even ask the cat for help. In this town in western Japan, people look to Tama, a nine-year-old cat working as master of an unmanned train station.The...

UN Claims Georgian Spy Drone Shot Down By Russians, Government Denies it

Between the results of investigations by the Georgian military and the United Nations, along with video of the clearly Russian-made fighter that destroyed it, it seems surprising that the Russian government...

Vulture - The Unmanned Aircraft Able to Stay in the Air for 5 Years

""The aircraft is able to fly over a single area, communicating or performing analysis for years at a time" - this is the statement of a DARPA representative> DARPA plans to create am UAV, which would be able...

Indian train hits crowd on tracks

A tragedy in India."At least 16 people have been killed in western India after a high-speed train ran into them, railway officials say. The victims were hit by the train as they walked in the dark on the tracks...

Unmanned aerial vehicles for law enforcement operations

" The Miami-Dade Police Department is experimenting with using unmanned aerial vehicles for law enforcement operations. Earlier attempts by other agencies to use unmanned drone aircraft have been shot down by the FAA. Miami-Dade and the Houston Police Department were...

Germany To Send Craft to Moon

Maybe they can take some pictures of the original moon landing site and put the conspiracy theories to rest."Germany hopes to put an unmanned space craft into the moon's orbit in the early part of the next decade, a senior German official said on Wednesday. The lunar orbit...

Solar plane flies into the night

"A lightweight solar-powered plane has smashed the official world record for the longest-duration unmanned flight. UK defence firm QinetiQ, which built the Zephyr unmanned aerial vehicle, said it flew for 54 hours during tests. The researchers believe it is the first time a...

X-48B flight a milestone for program

"Looking like something out of a Batman movie, a small, unmanned experimental aircraft is taking to the skies over the Antelope Valley. Continuing the tradition of X planes that dates back to 1947 at Edwards Air Force Base, Boeing Phantom Works is flight-testing a...

Unmanned helicopter rescue service for Mount Everest

"Unmanned helicopter rescue service for Mount Everest February 7, 2007 One of the many problems of climbing a mountain as tall as Mount Everest, is that once you’re up there, there’s not much help available if things go wrong. Most helicopters are not designed to operate...

New problem for drifting ship

"A 4,500-tonne ship adrift in the North Sea has managed to avoid hitting a gas platform - but is on course to collide with another rig, the Coastguard said. The vessel, Vindo, broke down near the Murdoch platform, 75 miles from Theddlethorpe St Helen in Lincolnshire. The...

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