Apr
03
2008
Space Truck Executes “Text-Book” Automated Docking at International
Posted by: admin in Tech News TodayAt 10.45 EST this morning, the Jules Verne docked at the International Space Station, with a 7,500-pound cargo containing equipment, supplies, water, food and gases—and no human driver. The AI-assisted landing of the European space truck after a 26-day journey was described as “text-book” and here it is, courtesy of NASA Television. While the Jules-ISS hook-up isn’t the first unmanned docking, anything with an automated system that can track down an object that is moving at 16,777 miles per hour and attach itself with just a 2-centimeter leeway, is pretty damn awesome in Giz’s book. [NASA]
At 10.45 EST this morning, the
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