Orbital's Antares rocket makes successful test flight

The Antares launched smoothly from Virginia's Wallops Flight Facility and released a simulated cargo ship. It's slated to follow SpaceX's Falcon 9 as a commercial ISS resupply craft. (Credit: Video screenshot by Tim Hornyak/CNET) After multiple scrubbed launches last week, an Antares rocket finally lifted off the ground from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of Orbital Sciences' bid to transport cargo to the International Space Station.

Hubble captures Horsehead nebula in stunning infrared

This new image puts the famous hydrogen-dust cloud in an ethereal light, revealing the horse rearing its head above cosmic whitecaps. (Credit: NASA) I just re-watched Ridley Scott's " Prometheus," and I think the soundtrack's opening horn melody would go perfectly with this NASA pic.

Arduino meets Wearables: workshop at Codemotion Berlin

After participating to Codemotion Rome last month, from the 9th of May we'll be spending a couple of days at Codemotion Berlin, an innovative tech event engaging developers of all languages and technologies. We're having an Arduino wearables workshop organized together with Kobakant duo (Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson) and focused on the use of Lilypad.

NASA Partner Orbital Sciences Test Launches Antares Rocket

NASA Partner Orbital Sciences Test Launches Antares Rocket WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. -- NASA commercial space partner Orbital Sciences Corporation Sunday launched its Antares rocket at 5 p.m. EDT from the new Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

Robots Podcast #128: Ethical/Social/Legal Issues

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A week of symfony #329 (15->21 April 2013)

A week of symfony #329 (15->21 April 2013) This week, the Symfony 2.3 branch boosted its development activity, specially for the Form component. As a result, and for the first time since a long time, the repository had less than 100 outstanding pull requests.