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The Small Satellites Paving The Way For Low-Cost Exploration Of Deep Space

The Small Satellites Paving The Way For Low-Cost Exploration Of Deep Space

Fast Company — NASA's next Mars mission, the InSight lander, launched May 5. The mission will shed new light on the interior of the red planet, at a cost of more than $825 million. InSight will be followed closely by two small friends that will separate from the upper stage immediately after the lander: cubesats known as Mars Cube One, or MarCO, that measure no more than 36 cm (14 inches) on a side before their solar panels and antennas are deployed. While their job on the InSight mission will be to relay information about the lander as it descends to the planet’s surface, it is NASA’s hope that these two tiny spacecraft can demonstrate a new mode of interplanetary space exploration—one that costs considerably less than the full-scale missions that are the only thing that’s been possible until now.
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How AR And VR Could Help Get Humans To Mars

How AR And VR Could Help Get Humans To Mars

Fast Company — Lockheed Martin has rolled out its MAIA “digital ecosystem,” which combines machine learning with AR/VR to provide more self-reliance to manned space missions.
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How Young Entrepreneurs Are Devising Tech Solutions To Gun Violence

How Young Entrepreneurs Are Devising Tech Solutions To Gun Violence

Fast Company — Technological advances could reduce the number of mass shootings in the U.S., but many obstacles remain. A handful of entrepreneurs around the country—some of them barely older than the high school students who inspired the March For Our Lives—are working on technological solutions to the problem of unnecessary gun violence.
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NASA's Time-Traveling Space Telescope Marks A New Era For Observation And Technology

NASA's Time-Traveling Space Telescope Marks A New Era For Observation And Technology

Fast Company — When the time-traveling orbital observatory known as the James Webb Space Telescope reaches its orbit around the Earth (which NASA hopes will happen sometime in mid-2019), it will radically increase how far we can peer into the past, and, scientists hope, unlock some of the greatest mysteries of our universe.
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How DARPA, The Secretive Agency That Invented The Internet, Is Working To Reinvent It

How DARPA, The Secretive Agency That Invented The Internet, Is Working To Reinvent It

Fast Company — Is the internet becoming obsolete? The government agency that invented the network that runs the world seems to think so. So the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a program aimed at "completely rethinking how to network and compute" by taking advantage of the computing resources that have begun to saturate the world around us in the form of smartphones, tablets, connected vehicles, iInternet of things endpoints, and more.
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How The San Diego Zoo Is Using AI And Drones To Save Polar Bears

How The San Diego Zoo Is Using AI And Drones To Save Polar Bears

Fast Company — Few things are more important to polar bears than ice, which provides the Arctic carnivores with food, migration routes, and places to bear their young. But over the last four decades, there has been less and less Arctic sea ice available, and the summer period of ice melt has grown longer, making survival more difficult for animals who currently number only about 25,000 around the world.
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How U.S. Soldiers Are Using Their "Warhacks" To Transform Combat

How U.S. Soldiers Are Using Their "Warhacks" To Transform Combat

Fast Company — The armed forces need battlefield innovation and adaptability, but are they agile enough to take advantage of it?
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How Software Is Eating The Military And What That Means For The Future Of War

How Software Is Eating The Military And What That Means For The Future Of War

Fast Company — As software-based weapons and information systems start to touch all phases of conflict, military leaders are grappling with a new set of challenges.
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How America's New Cyber Foot Soldiers Are Put Through Their Paces

How America's New Cyber Foot Soldiers Are Put Through Their Paces

Fast Company — Two hours northeast of the sound-canceling "hush houses" of Palmdale, where newly developed jet engines are tested, lies the Army's Fort Irwin National Training Center in the desert south of Death Valley. It’s here that America’s freshest cyber warriors are put through their paces and where troops are trained to use and respond to the new weapons of war: software tools that can disrupt the operations of a tank or an aircraft, take over the controls of a dam, bring down a power grid, or insinuate themselves into a communications channel in order to send a message that appears to come from a fellow soldier or commanding officer but which really emanates from an adversary’s HQ.
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How Veterans Turned Entrepreneurs Are Disrupting The Pentagon's Weapons Program

How Veterans Turned Entrepreneurs Are Disrupting The Pentagon's Weapons Program

Fast Company — A new focus on innovation has led the Department of Defense to launch or support a raft of new programs recently, designed to update its technology both in the back office and on the battlefield. But the fragile innovation infrastructure the Pentagon has managed to build is in danger of collapsing. Silicon Valley would like to help us win the next war. But will the Pentagon let it?
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Wargaming Needs New Recruits to Save Lives

Wargaming Needs New Recruits to Save Lives

How We Get To Next — Done right, wargaming has saved lives. But the discipline is in sore need of younger and more diverse practitioners to fill out a roster that is increasingly “hair-pigment challenged.”
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Basic Training

Basic Training

The New York Times — In 1913, H.G. Wells created a set of miniature wargaming rules that sparked a hobby that has influenced almost everything we think of as gaming today.
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