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Today we’re joined by Gokul Swamy, a Ph.D. Student at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. In the final conversation of our ICML 2023 series, we sat down with Gokul to discuss his accepted papers at the event, leading off with “Inverse Reinforcement Learning without Reinforcement…
Russia's first mission to the Moon in nearly half a century crashed over the weekend, days before its scheduled landing, prompting a new wave of commentary abut the state of Russia's space program. Daniel Duchaine cautions that, even with the failure of Luna-25, other, more worrisome aspects of its…
In some respects, it's never been easier to get smallsats into orbit, even though the options for doing so are limited. Jeff Foust reports that, for most smallsat operators today, it's a choice between hitching a ride with SpaceX or buying a launch from Rocket Lab.
Some in the space community say we're ready to send humans to Mars now. Isabella Cisneros argues it's time for a Red Planet reality check because of serious, often overlooked technical, societal, and other challenges such efforts face.
Space advocates have used a wide range of historical analogies over the years to justify their support for space development. Bob Werb offers a new one to explain what the public needs to know to better appreciate and support space activities.
For some people, inaccurate science can ruin a science fiction story. Jeff Foust reviews a book that used good examples from sci-fi to teach concepts associated with spaceflight.