ESA and NASA / SOHO This image of a coronal mass ejection (CME) was captured on April 20 as the CME was headed in the direction of Mercury. The large bright spot on the left is Venus. By Denise Chow Space.com Two NASA spacecraft are safe and sound after the sun unleashed three intense back-to-back solar eruptions in their direction, scientists say Continue reading
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NASA Probes Near Sun Safe from Triple Solar Eruption
Two NASA spacecraft are safe and sound, after the sun unleashed three intense back-to-back solar eruptions in their direction, scientists say. NASA’s Messenger spacecraft in orbit around Mercury and the Stereo-A, which studies the sun from Earth orbit, suffered no damage from the passing solar storms. On April 20, the sun fired off a solar eruption that sent huge wave of plasma and charged particles, called a coronal mass ejection (CME), toward Mercury. Continue reading
Tech hosts artificial intelligence competition
HOUGHTON – An artificial intelligence competition held Saturday at Michigan Technological University put an impressive display of human intelligence on display. Tech’s Husky Game Development Enterprise and Women in Computing Science student organizations hosted more than 50 teams of (mostly) programmers in an all-day (9 a.m. Continue reading
Aldec Presents at Military & Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices Symposium (MAPLD)
HENDERSON, Nev.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Aldec, Inc., together with Microsemi, The Boeing Company, Northrop Grumman Corporation and other leading vendors, is scheduled to present at the Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices Symposium (MAPLD) in San Diego, CA from April 9-12, 2013. MAPLD event will showcase leading research in the field of programmable devices for use in military and aerospace applications. Aldec will present on two separate Design and Verification topics that continue to provide a high level of interest from the military and aerospace community. Continue reading
Incest Party: Taiwan Hardware Show – Shanghai World Travel Fair 2013 | The Oxford Murders – Video
Incest Party: Taiwan Hardware Show – Shanghai World Travel Fair 2013 | The Oxford Murders Incest Party Taiwan Hardware Show Shanghai World Travel Fair 2013 | The Oxford Murders. Uploaded by Ksenia Sobchak on Mar 09 2013. dagger; Taiwan chairman Xi Jinping Kuomintang of China dagger;苹果日报 dagger; NANA Eurooppa Oy roc Apple Daily Apps TAITRA Osaka dagger; TaipeiCPP Communist Party of China Central Discipline Inspection Commission dagger; Beijing Prosecutors Shanghai Court Notary Public AntiNuclear SelfHelp Association httpjapanrussiajimdocom苹果日报 Taiwan Apple Daily … Continue reading
NASA Curiosity rover collects first Martian bedrock sample
Feb. 9, 2013 NASA’s Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample from its interior. This is the first time any robot has drilled into a rock to collect a sample on Mars Continue reading
NASA Curiosity rover drills into Martian rock
NASA’sCuriosity rover has bored a hole in a Martian rock for the first time to collect a sample of bedrock that might offer evidence of a long-gone wet environment, the US space agency has reported. Drilling down 6.4cm into a patch of sedimentary bedrock, Curiosity collected the rock powder left by the drill and will analyze it using its own laboratory instruments, NASA said in a statement on Saturday. This is the first time a robot has drilled to collect a Martian sample Continue reading
NASA's robotic rover Curiosity drills into Martian rock
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For the first time, NASA’s rover Curiosity used its on-board drill to collect a sample of Martian bedrock that might offer evidence of a long-gone wet environment, the U.S. space agency reported on Saturday. Continue reading
NASA's Curiosity Rover Poised to Drill Into Mars
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is sizing up a target rock and flexing its robotic arm ahead of its first-ever drilling activity on the Red Planet, which should take place in the coming days. The 1-ton Curiosity rover pressed down on the rock in four different places with its arm-mounted drill Monday (Jan. 27) Continue reading
NASA to launch ocean wind monitor to space station
Jan. 29, 2013 In a clever reuse of hardware originally built to test parts of NASA’s QuikScat satellite, the agency will launch the ISS-RapidScat instrument to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ocean surface wind speed and direction Continue reading
Health Care and Tech: 1 Big International Opportunity – Video
Health Care and Tech: 1 Big International Opportunity The 2012 mHealth Summit near Washington, DC, was a gold mine for investors looking for health and technology ideas. In the video below, Fool analyst Rex Moore talks with Dr. Patricia Mecheal about the vast opportunities in international health care. Continue reading
Erlang in global radio astronomy – monitoring and controlling custom built hardware at the bit level – Video
Erlang in global radio astronomy – monitoring and controlling custom built hardware at the bit level This is a video of Harro Verkouter's talk at London erlang Factory Lite www.erlang-factory.com In radio astronomy – the field I work in – data processing requirements are so large we have to build custom hardware to actually do it. In the talk I would like to introduce the observation technique we currently use, very long baseline interferometry, and the hardware that is currently being developed for expanding its capabilities. Feeding and controlling this FPGA powered device will require a distributed system also capable of controlling embedded devices remotely over a network Continue reading
How Sandra Noble Helps With HITECH Act EMR Software – Video
How Sandra Noble Helps With HITECH Act EMR Software How Sandra Noble Helps With HITECH Act EMR Software? ElectronicHealthRecordRescue.com How Sandra Noble Helps With HITECH Act EMR Software? Hear from an internist in Marietta, GA Continue reading
Private SpaceX Capsule Lands After Historic Mission to Space Station
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Private SpaceX Capsule Leaves Space Station for Earth Return
A private Dragon spacecraft is headed back to Earth from the International Space Station Sunday (Oct. 28) to wrap up a landmark mission to the orbiting lab: the first commercial cargo flight for NASA Continue reading
NASA aims to trim giant SLS rocket's costs
New and efficient assembly methods should lower the price tag of NASA’s giant new rocket for deep space missions, agency officials say. Engineers at ATK Space Systems in Utah are putting together the solid rocket boosters for NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) heavy-lifter, which is designed to blast astronauts toward near-Earth asteroids, Mars and other destinations beyond Earth orbit. The new boosters are similar to the ones that helped loft NASA’s now-retired space shuttles to orbit Continue reading
NASA Aims to Trim Giant Deep-Space Rocket's Cost
Newly efficient assembly methods should lower the price tag of NASA’s giant new rocket for deep space missions, agency officials say. Continue reading
NASA building a better solid rocket booster for Space Launch System rocket
ScienceDaily (Oct. 2, 2012) The largest and most powerful solid rocket booster ever built for flight is being assembled for NASA’s Space Launch System at ATK Space Systems in Brigham City, Utah, incorporating new cost-savings measures Continue reading
Masten Completes Their Test Objectives; Xaero Not Recovered
Washington D.C. – Today Masten Space Systems conducted a flight test of its unmanned Xaero from the Mojave Air & Space Port to a target altitude of one kilometer to test flight control at high ascent and descent rates. While the vehicle demonstrated better than expected performance through the test, unexpected instability developed during landing and the flight was terminated while the vehicle was well above ground level Continue reading
A DIY Space Suit for the 99 Percent
Cameron M. Smith at home working on his DIY Spacesuit Continue reading