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- Students to design, create and launch satellite
- Students at the University of Leicester have started a project working towards launching their very own satellite into Earth's orbit. Over twenty undergraduates from their Physics and Astronomy department at the university are working on the project, named "Plume", helped along by a neighbouring engineering company Magna Parva by donating...
- Tags: Orbit, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-06-14
- Galaxies Galore Screensaver (exe)
- 14 out of this world images of galaxies captured by the Hubble space telescope. The Hubble Space Telescope HST is a telescope in orbit around the Earth, named after astronomer Edwin Hubble. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Astronomer, Orbit, Hubble Space Telescope
- Software downloads 2008-01-30
- First reflected light from an exoplanet
- European astronomers have for the first time ever been able to detect and monitor the visible light that is scattered in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, HD 189733b, which is also known as a 'hot Jupiter,' and orbits a star slightly cooler and less massive than the Sun located about...
- Tags: Planet, Orbit, Team Management, Productivity, Web Site Development, Management, Internet, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-27
- What will we find in the next 50 years of space exploration?
- What will we find in the next 50 years of space exploration?the matter on Earth comprises only 4 percent of... the universeIsn't that just a tiny bit much? Maybe 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000004% or a little less?Myself, i hopethey run into the Orion women. ;-)RE: What will we find in...
- Tags: Cable, Shuttle, rocket, space exploration, orbit, shuttle, gravity
- Discussion threads 2007-09-20
- Photos: Voyagers--strange visitors to other planets
- It was thirty years ago when the first Voyager spacecraft left Earth. The ships have returned closeup views of four planets--and aren't finished yet.Voyager 2 launched on Aug. 20, 1977, and Voyager 1 followed on Sept. 5, 1977, for what was originally a five-year mission to study Jupiter...
- Tags: Earth, Moon, Data, Photograph, Voyager 1, Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter', Io, Great Red Spot, It', nnTriton, Here', Cassini, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-08-28
- 50 ways to kill an asteroid
- 50 ways to kill an asteroid2d thoughtsmany of the arguments/plans i've seen, only deal w/ 2 dimensional possibilities, whether on paper or in movies. noneseems to talk effectively about all possible vectors in relationship to earth. this is one reason, it occurs to me, that it has been,...
- Tags: asteroid, orbit
- Discussion threads 2007-03-09
- Solar System Wallpaper (zip)
- Solar System Wallpaper is a program that shows the positions of the planets in their orbits on the user's desktop wallpaper. Every time it is run, it shows the current locations of the planets and their orbits, as seen from above north of the Solar System. Even the background image...
- Tags: Planet, Orbit, Solar System Wallpaper, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2006-08-15
- Solar System 3D Simulator (exe)
- Solar System 3D Simulator is a software application that generates a realistic solar system model and planets in 3 Dimension on the PC using advanced physics formulas. It can display the planets and their orbits, the sun and the moon. The nine planets including planet earth and their detailed physical...
- Tags: 3D, Planet, Orbit, Solar System 3D Simulator, Telecom & Utilities
- Software downloads 2006-01-03
- '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
- Photos: Twinkle, twinkle little satellite
- Small enough to hold in one hand, CubeSats prove you don't have to be big to get a steady gig in orbit.
- Tags: Network technology, orbit, satellite
- Image galleries 2005-09-14
- Photos: Twinkle, twinkle little satellite
- Small enough to hold in one hand, CubeSats prove you don't have to be big to get a steady gig in orbit.
- Tags: Network technology, orbit, satellite
- Image galleries 2005-09-14
Additional Resources
- DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...
- Shortly after I posted my diatribe on my problems with my DIRECTV HD receivers and the company's horrible customer service, I was contacted by Stuart Sweet, a moderator on a popular Satellite TV forums site, DBSTalk. Apparently, my post had created quite a stir and I was asked to register...
- Tags: Digital Video Recorder, DirecTV, Satellite, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- DISH Network launches satellite, promises more HD channels
- In order to offer more HD channels, satellite providers apparently need more satellites. So if you're a satellite subscriber who thrives on HD, now's your time to cheer. (And not because you think they're going to launch comedian and spokesman Frank Caliendo, at right, into space.) ...
- Tags: Network, Dish Network, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Dishing It Out
- There may soon be just one satellite radio company. Now, the stars seem to be aligning for there to be just one satellite TV company, as well. First, in radio. The FCC is close to making a decision that will let Sirius Satellite Radio Inc acquire arch-rival...
- Tags: AT&T Corp., DirecTV, Satellite, Satellite Television, Liberty Media Corp., John Malone, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Satellite TV, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Can we trust our GPS devices?
- In recent years, we have become increasingly dependent on applications using the Global Positioning System GPS, such as railway control, highway traffic management, emergency response or commercial aviation. But in a very short news release, the American Geophysical Union AGU warns us that we can't always trust our GPS gadgets...
- Tags: Satellite, Occultation, GPS, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- A UMan robotic arm
- Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a mobile robotic arm which can manipulate objects by 'seeing' its environment through a digital camera. This robotic arm, dubbed UMan, or UMass Mobile Manipulator, can 'approach unfamiliar objects, such as scissors, garden shears and jointed wooden toys -- and learn...
- Tags: Environment, UMan, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Attacks on NFC mobile phones demonstrated
- Yesterday, Collin Mulliner of the trifinite.group, a group of computer experts researching insecurities in wireless communications, has released the slides as well as the research tools he came up with in order to demonstrate various attacks and vulnerabilities in Near Field Communication mobile phones, a technology that will change the...
- Tags: Phone, Contactless Payment, Mobile, Malware, Cell Phone, Attack, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Security, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Does Larry Ellison have the best SaaS strategy?
- Software as a service sounds deceptively simple: Host an application, charge folks monthly and customers come running because they don't have to implement software. The reality: SaaS is rocket science and few do it truly well. This perception vs. reality SaaS gap bonked me over the head...
- Tags: Strategy, Software-as-a-service, NetSuite Inc., Larry Ellison, SaaS Trajectory, Software As A Service (SaaS), Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Profits-strapped Sun continues decade-long pitch to developers on Java dominance
- Leading up to the JavaOne developers conference, Sun Microsystems posted an embarrassing quarterly profit loss, is making OpenSolaris more open than ever, bringing the OpenSolaris platform value to the Amazon Web Services cloud, and is still using variations on the projectile theme to send T-shirts into the international crowd of...
- Tags: Developer, Sun Microsystems Inc., NetBeans Ecosystem, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- A professor deals with political climate around climate change
- I am NOT a scientist but I have two brothers who are. My father was a phycsics professor. I even admit to knowing and liking folks who are in the sciences, regardless of their reputation among certain politico-business factions in America. In the interest of dialogue, I...
- Tags: Food, Science, Humans, Trite, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-27
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