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‘Digital twins’ rescued NASA robots lost in space, here’s how

When NASA’s free-flying helpers on the International Space Station drifted into trouble, the solution did not come from a new thruster or a last-minute software patch. It came from a virtual copy of ...
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NASA's Lunar Trailblazer Is Officially Lost in Space -- but Maybe Not Forever

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission is in jeopardy. It launched on Feb. 27 to send a probe to the moon in search of water. But less than a week after launch, NASA lost track of the spacecraft, which may ...
Futurism

Alert: There’s a Lost Spaceship in the Ocean

In science fiction, we often have the trope of a spacecraft becoming lost in space — but what about being lost at sea? That’s what happened this week with an eight-foot-wide experimental spacecraft ...

Lost in space: How ’digital twins’ saved NASA’s robots

Autonomous free-flying robots aboard the International Space Station (ISS) frequently lose their bearings. Without gravity to distinguish up from down, even precision sensors suffer from accumulating ...