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- The invisible frontier of our solar system
- On October 19, NASA will launch a new spacecraft named IBEX, short for 'Interstellar Boundary Explorer.' Its mission, which will last about two years, is to refine what the Voyager spacecraft experienced in 2004 when 'an invisible shock formed as the solar wind piles up against the gas in interstellar...
- Tags: Earth, Spacecraft, NASA, Orbit, Solar System, IBEX, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Images: Messenger nears close encounter with Mercury
- On Monday, NASA's Messenger spacecraft will be the first visitor to Mercury in almost 33 years. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Spacecraft, NASA, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-01-11
- Finding leaks in a spacecraft
- With financial support from NASA, Iowa State University ISU engineers have developed a sensor to quickly find leaks in a spacecraft. This sensor locates an air leak by listening to the noise generated by the air rushing out of the leak and includes an array of 64 elements that detects...
- Tags: Leak, Spacecraft, Iowa State University, NASA, Sensor, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- NASA to test-fly 'Orion' spacecraft next fall
- NASA to test-fly 'Orion' spacecraft next fallMisuse of a proud name for a space-going klugeMaybe it's a petty gripe, but I wish they'd called the thing something else. "Orion" will always be the name of the bold concept authored by Freeman Dyson and Ted Taylor in the late 1950s...
- Tags: ORION, spacecraft, NASA
- Discussion threads 2007-08-01
- Photos: Asteroid hunters leaving/returning to Earth
- While NASA plans to launch its Dawn probe to visit two asteroids, a Japanese spacecraft, loaded with asteroid dirt, limps toward home.
- Tags: dirt, spacecraft, NASA, Earth, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-06-27
- Photos: Searching for Earth-size planets
- At an open meeting at the SETI Institute, scientists discuss NASA's plans to use the new Kepler spacecraft to search for Earth-size planets orbiting stars.
- Tags: photograph, Earth-size, spacecraft, NASA, scientist
- Image galleries 2007-04-13
- Photos: Best photos of Saturn--and the winners are
- NASA asked people to vote for the best image taken by the Cassini spacecraft as it nears two full years on its visit to the ringed planet. Mars rovers' photo contest winners
- Tags: image, NASA, spacecraft, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-01-24
- Photos: Saturn's greatest hits
- NASA is promoting a contest to choose the best image taken by the Cassini spacecraft nears two full years at Saturn.
- Tags: Saturn, spacecraft, image, NASA
- Image galleries 2006-12-28
- Photos: NASA spacecraft set to monitor sun
- Twin spacecraft will be the first ever to measure explosive solar storms in 3D.
- Tags: NASA, spacecraft, monitor, 3D
- Image galleries 2006-10-25
- 'Stereo' views of the Sun
- NASA's STEREO mission will be launched in 2006 with the goal of imaging the sun and the solar winds in 3-D. According to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory APL, two identical spacecrafts will be placed in different orbits to provide us with...
- Tags: Stereo, orbit
- Blog posts 2005-11-11
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- UK plans lunar phone network
- The UK is planning mission to put a satellite in orbit around the Moon which could one day enable lunar colonists to use mobile phones to communicate with each other A UK-led mission to put a satellite in orbit around the Moon which could one day enable lunar colonists...
- Tags: Phone, Mission, Phone Network, Orbit, Satellite, British National Space Centre, Network Technology, Networking, moon, NASA, network, communications, Natasha Lomas silicon.com
- News items 2008-12-05
- News to know: Mumbai attacks, Microhoo, Holiday shopping, HDTVs
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jennifer Leggio: Mumbai attack coverage demonstrates good and bad maturation point of social media Social media marketing opportunism during tragedy = fail Oliver Marks: Mumbai Attacks...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Attack, Digital Video, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Open Source, Personal Technology, Internet, Security, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- NASA and DoE team on dark energy research
- NASA and DoE team on dark energy researchCongrats JDEM.........but if you don't terraform Mars soon, none of this new information is going to do anyone much good, now is it?Seems like a stupid response? Not so....1. We breed too much and we grow too little food and we use the...
- Tags: team, human race, NASA
- Discussion threads 2008-11-27
- NASA and DoE team on dark energy research
- NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy DoE have teamed up to operate the future Joint Dark Energy Mission JDEM. As you probably know, recent astronomical measurements have showed that about 72% of the total energy in the universe is dark energy, even if scientists don't know much about it,...
- Tags: Team, Universe, NASA, Energy, WMAP, WMAP Data, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Web Site Development, Team Management, Network Technology, Finance, Internet, Management, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-11-27
- A 1.4-gigapixel camera to detect asteroids
- A 1.4-gigapixel camera to detect asteroidsWhat a waste of an awesome digital cameraThink of the PORN you could produce with this thing. Of course, to display it, you'd need a native resolution monitor... 30 feet tall?Can we get any more childish Jason?ntOH boyhere comes the big 1.. what ya gonna...
- Tags: asteroid, Followed, camera
- Discussion threads 2008-11-20
- (Inside the SF Green Festival)
- Inside the SF Green FestivalPatheticThe fads of the 1970s and they were legion were relatively benign next to this nonsense. I'm going to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 19th century by anti-humanists who would condemn their fellow humans to a subservient role to an infested ball of rock....
- Tags: SF Green Festival
- Discussion threads 2008-11-17
- Images: Mysterious aurora, mighty storms on Saturn
- Although the Cassini probe is working well past its scheduled retirement, the spacecraft is solving and revealing more secrets of the ringed planet. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Spacecraft, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-11-14
- Swarms of small satellites coming soon
- The first satellites were launched about 50 years ago as a way to conquer space. Now, satellites are essential for our civilian and military communications. But they remain large and expensive, some of them costing several hundreds of millions of dollars. This is why researchers from the University of Florida...
- Tags: Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille, Fitz-Coy
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Robotic sensors on Mount St. Helens
- U.S. researchers are developing a new robust wireless communication systems for Mount St. Helens. With the help of a $1.63 million NASA grant, they've developed a dozen of smart robotic sensors which talk to each other and send information to a central information hub, the Johnston Ridge Observatory located atop...
- Tags: Wireless Communication, Sensor, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Roland Piquepaille, NASA
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Aspergers diagnosis could keep 'NASA hacker' out of US prison
- Aspergers diagnosis could keep 'NASA hacker' out of US prisonJustice system problemsThe civilized world considers the US justice system to be extremely harsh. The US has a higher percentage of people in prison than ANY other nation. We have Guantonimo, we have waterboarding, we have unlimited detainment without...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Asperger, NASA
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
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