MMS Narrated Orbit Viz: Unlocking The Secrets of Magnetic Reconnection

In March 2015, NASA will launch four identical spacecraft to study how magnetic fields around Earth connect and disconnect, explosively releasing energy - a process known as magnetic reconnection.

The Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission will provide the first three-dimensional views of this fundamental process that can accelerate particles to nearly the speed of light.

MMS uses Earth's protective magnetic space environment, the magnetosphere, as a natural laboratory to directly measure reconnection.

Reconnection is a common processes in our universe; occurring in space near Earth, in the atmosphere of the sun and other stars, in the vicinity of black holes and neutron stars, and at virtually any boundary between space plasmas, including the boundary between our solar system's heliosphere and interstellar space.

To study the phenomenon, MMS will fly directly through known areas of magnetic reconnection near Earth, which requires a fairly detailed orbit plan. Watch this video to learn more where MMS will fly and why.

In the video you'll see that, during the first phase of the mission, which lasts about one year, MMS will focus on reconnection sites on the sun-side of Earth, where the orbit will extend out toward the sun to around 47,500 miles, the equivalent of 12 Earth radii.

The second phase will focus on reconnection in Earth's night-side magnetotail, during which time the MMS orbit will extend away from Earth to almost 99,000 miles, the equivalent of 25 Earth radii.

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Red Bluff softball beats Foothill to advance to 7th straight section final

By Rich Greene

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RED BLUFF >> The 2014 Lady Spartans kept their own streak alive to continue Red Bluff High School's streak.

The Lady Spartans won their 22nd consecutive game Tuesday, beating Foothill 8-4 in a Northern Section Division-III semifinal game.

The win puts Red Bluff into a section title game for the seventh consecutive season. They've won three of those, the last coming in 2012.

If they want to make it four titles in eight years, they'll have to beat the team that last handed them a defeat all the way back on April 4 - Enterprise.

The Lady Hornets beat Paradise Tuesday to set up the showdown in Redding scheduled for Saturday.

Meanwhile Red Bluff was in a nail-biter against Foothill despite the 8-4 score.

The Lady Cougars battled back all afternoon and attempted to do so again in the bottom of the fourth when their cleanup hitter Emily Harvey came to the plate as the tying run with the bases loaded and one out.

Harvey got under a Hailee Nichols pitch enough to scare the Red Bluff faithful, but Cheyanne Grannes cradled it into her glove in left field for the second out.

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NASA Television Coverage Set for Next Space Station Crew Launch

NASA Television will broadcast prelaunch activities for the next three crew members flying to the International Space Station, followed by extensive live coverage of their launch and docking to the orbital laboratory Wednesday, May 28.

Expedition 40/41 Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA, Soyuz Commander Max Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency will launch to the space station in a Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:57 p.m. EDT (1:57 a.m. May 29, Baikonur time).

NASA TV coverage begins at 3 p.m. and will include video of the prelaunch activities leading up to and including the crew members boarding their spacecraft.

The crew is scheduled to dock to the station's Rassvet module less than six hours later, at 9:48 p.m. NASA TV coverage of docking begins at 9 p.m.

Expedition 40 Commander Steve Swanson of NASA and Flight Engineers Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos will greet the new crew when the hatches open at about 11:25 p.m. NASA TV hatch opening coverage begins at 11 p.m.

Wiseman, Suraev and Gerst will remain aboard the station until mid-November. Swanson, Skvortsov and Artemyev will return to Earth in mid-September, leaving Suraev as Expedition 41 Commander.

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NASA says it doesn't need Russia to run space station

Computerworld - Less than a week after Russia threatened to stop its work on the International Space Station (ISS), NASA's chief said work on the orbiter will continue on with, or without, Russia's cooperation.

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, speaking to a group of reporters in Berlin on Monday, said no single nation is indispensable and the U.S. space agency fully intends to continue its work with the space station through at least 2024 as expected .

Bolden "was saying the five major partner countries that make up the International Space Station have an inter-related relationship," said a NASA spokesman in an email to Computerworld. "No single nation can end the ISS partnership."

While Bolden said that no one country can shutter the space station, Russia has been playing a critical role.

The U.S., along with other nations, have depended on Russia to ferry astronauts back and forth to the space station since NASA retired its fleet of space shuttles in 2011.

To lessen the partners' dependence on Russia, NASA is aiming to launch astronauts from U.S. soil again by 2017.

Bolden's remarks this week were another stage in the escalating conflict between the U.S. and Russia over their partnership to operate and maintain the space station, along with Europe, Japan and Canada.

The trouble started in April when NASA announced that because of Russia's aggressive actions in Ukraine, the U.S. was scaling back its work with Russia's space agency. At the time of the announcement, NASA was working on a list of projects it might cancel or exclude Russia from participating in. The space agency has not specified what those projects are.

NASA, though, made it clear that it would work with the Russian Federation to continue the safe and continued operation of the space station.

Russia, however, turned up the heat.

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NASA Partners with Rolls-Royce on Braze Joint Technology Testing

The Innovative Technology Partnerships Office or ITPO at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center inGreenbelt, Marylandis pleased to announce the signing of a Reimbursable Space Act Agreement between Rolls-Royce,Indianapolis, Ind., to collaborate on the development of braze joint performance prediction methods for critical structures subjected to complex loading conditions.

Through this partnership Rolls-Royce will establish a braze Failure Assessment Diagram (FAD) that can be used to define acceptable stress combinations and margins of safety of braze joints and braze repair structures. NASA will receive verification of its FAD methodology for failure prediction of structural brazed joints on real industrial applications.

Rolls-Royce will use the "Methodology of Evaluating Margins of Safety in Critical Brazed Joints," developed at Goddard by Dr.Yury Flomto help in the performance prediction of brazed joints at NASA Goddard.

"I hope that recognition of this methodology by one of the leading aerospace companies such as Rolls-Royce will help to improve our ability to design and build more reliable critical brazing structures," stated Dr. Flom. "Critical brazed structures are structural components in spacecraft, jet engines, power generators, nuclear power generation systems, automobiles, medical devices such as implants, pace makers, etc. Failure of such components could cause multimillion dollar losses of equipment and possibly human lives."

The automotive and aircraft industry may benefit from this technology as it could be used to design and manufacture components for use in automobile radiators and space radiators, aluminum engine blocks and pistons, heat exchangers for gas-turbine applications, all-metal honeycomb sandwich panels for fabrication of aircraft structures, jet engines in commercial and military aircrafts, thrust chambers in rocket engines; and for other electronic components, probes and thermionic devices, space vehicle assemblies and various miscellaneous applications.

"This fundamental research between Rolls-Royce and NASA will further enhance the brazing technology for the joining and repair of gas turbine engine components in aerospace applications," says Dr.Ray Xu, Senior Specialist at Rolls-Royce."

"This agreement with Rolls-Royce offers a fantastic opportunity for NASA Goddard to partner with an organization that has a wide-range of unique research and development activities," saidDennis Small, Technology Transfer Manager in NASA Goddard's ITPO.

For more information on NASA Goddard's Innovative Technology Partnerships Office, please visit: http://itpo.gsfc.nasa.gov/.

For more information on Rolls-Royce, please visit: http://www.rolls-royce.com/

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U. students develop medical apps, award-winning video game

U. students develop medical apps, award-winning video game

By Elenor Heyborne, KSL.com Contributor

May 20th, 2014 @ 11:11am

SALT LAKE CITY The Princeton Review ranks the University of Utahs Entertainment Arts and Engineering program (EAE) among the top five schools in the nation for both undergraduate and graduate programs. So, it is no surprise when the program turns out winning student teams of video game design and production or that it can successfully cross in to the medical world by building innovative therapeutic apps.

The Utah Science and Technology Research initiatives (USTAR) digital media team supports the EAE program with two researchers, Craig Caldwell and Cem Yuskel, to develop and accelerate technology commercialization of digital media research and tools.

A team of 13 students from the Entertainment Arts and Engineering: Master Game Studio were winners of the annual Independent Games Festival student showcase. Along with eight other teams, they were chosen from a pool of 350 game entries across the world. The showcase winners games were playable on the Expo show floor at the recent Game Developers Conference held in San Francisco.

The U. was represented by their team Hack n Hide. The team entered their game Cyber Heist which is a two person co-op game in which the duo plays the role of two post graduate students breaking in to a futuristic department of education to eliminate records of student debt.

The idea for the game came when Hack n Hide realized that between the 13-team members (nine engineers, two producers, a designer and an artist), they had a combined total of more than $750,000 in student debt. The game was developed to play on a computer platform; however, one of the players can play on a tablet device.

Early on, we decided that we wanted to create this game not only for different game-play styles, but also for different devices and platforms as well, said Christopher Rawson, lead engineer for Hack n Hide. We developed it with tablets in mind so you can play the hacker interface on your iPad.

Cyber Heist is centered on creating trust between the two players who are different player-types; one is more strategy oriented (the hacker) and the other plays a first person stealth game. The "hacker", who has a blueprint of each level of the department of education, communicates to the stealth player where to go, the position of guards, what doors to bust through and how to avoid detection.

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:: 21, May 2014 :: PRECISION ENGINEERING INDUSTRY TO GEAR UP FOR HIGH VALUE-ADDED MANUFACTURING WITH HELP FROM A*STAR …

PRECISION ENGINEERING INDUSTRY TO GEAR UP FOR HIGH VALUE-ADDED MANUFACTURING WITH HELP FROM A*STAR-NUS JOINT LAB COLLABORATION

A*STAR SIMTech and NUS Faculty of Engineering have launched two joint labs in Natural Fibre Composites and Large Format Machining to boost R&D in manufacturing and support the local industry needs. New scholarships are being provided to develop talent for these labs.

SingaporeThe Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Engineering jointly inked an agreement today to launch two Joint Labs, in the areas of Natural Fibre Composites and Large Format Machining, to move the local precision engineering industry into high value-added manufacturing.

This collaboration builds capabilities and develops technologies to help the complex equipment, aerospace, and marine & offshore clusters. The SIMTech-NUS Joint Labs also serve as platforms to nurture R&D manpower for industry, transforming them into centres of excellence in their respective technical areas to benefit more industry sectors. Twenty PhD scholarships will be provided to develop R&D talent for manufacturing research conducted in the Joint Labs.

Dr Lim Ser Yong, Executive Director of SIMTech said, The Joint Labs with NUS are long-term collaborations to conduct systematic fundamental research on specific research themes to develop advanced manufacturing technology in SIMTech. The Joint Labs in Natural Fibre Composites and Large Format Machining will help to build the foundation of a robust track record in the thematic areas of practical industrial significance, advancing research and honing the skills of R&D manpower for the local manufacturing industry.

Said Professor Chan Eng Soon,Dean, NUS Faculty of Engineering, We are pleased to have this opportunity to help in nurturing a pool of R&D talent contributing to Singapores value-added manufacturing.

Harnessing Materials Science to Boost Manufacturing

Combining expertise in materials science and engineering, and materials processing and manufacturing, is essential in the development of cost effective manufacturing of high performance natural fibre composites for high-tech applications. The use of fibres such as flax, hemp, jute or sisal in the composites industry are currently limited by the availability of a durable semi-finished product or structural component with consistent quality for high-precision and load-bearing applications.

With NUS expertise and SIMTechs experience, the Natural Fibre Composites Joint Lab can contribute to manufacturing R&D and meet the demands for natural fibre market as it is expected to grow with a cumulative annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11 per cent over the next five years, due to the need for light-weight, cost-effective products and push for sustainability[1].

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Roche Diagnostics recognizes Pathology, Inc as Roche Molecular Center of Excellence

INDIANAPOLIS, May 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today the establishment of a strategic alliance with Pathology, Inc. in Torrance, Calif., that designates the company as a Roche Molecular Center of Excellence (MCOE) for the next five years.

Established in 2002, Roche's MCOE program is designed to create an alliance network that enables non-competing regional laboratories across the U.S. to collaborate and capitalize on scientific knowledge in molecular testing and, in turn, help accelerate the advancement of new test methods and technology.

"Roche is very pleased to welcome Pathology, Inc. into the Molecular Center of Excellence alliance," said Whitney Green, senior vice president, molecular diagnostics at Roche Diagnostics Corporation. "We value their expertise in women's health and look forward to working together in implementing molecular technologies in the advancement of personalized medicine."

Pathology, Inc. is one of 35 labs in the U.S. that have received this recognition and joined in this strategic partnership with Roche. "This relationship with Roche will help keep Pathology, Inc. on the leading edge of women's health services and will help ensure that we are supporting physicians and their patients with the most advanced molecular technologies," said Vicki DiFrancesco, president and CEO at Pathology, Inc. "It will also integrally support our mission to help doctors personalize patient care."

As a nationally recognized Roche MCOE, the Pathology, Inc. molecular diagnostics laboratory will offer physicians and patients some of the latest and most advanced molecular technologies, such as Roche's cobas HPV Test, a screening test approved by the FDA for use in helping clinicians assess patients'risk of cervical cancer based on the presence of clinically relevant high-risk HPV DNA.

About Pathology, Inc. Pathology, Inc. is the country's premier full-service independent Women's Health laboratory, providing expertise in reproductive FDA donor testing as well as anatomic, molecular and digital pathology services. Its integrated diagnostic services help doctors personalize patient care to optimally treat disease and maintain health and wellness. The company is committed to providing only the highest level of testing quality and service and working with physicians to provide unique solutions to their most challenging needs.

About Roche Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche is a leader in research-focused healthcare with combined strengths in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Roche is the world's largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and neuroscience. Roche is also the world leader in in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management. Roche's personalized healthcare strategy aims at providing medicines and diagnostics that enable tangible improvements in the health, quality of life and survival of patients. Founded in 1896, Roche has been making important contributions to global health for more than a century. Twenty-four medicines developed by Roche are included in the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines, among them life-saving antibiotics, antimalarials and chemotherapy.

In 2013 the Roche Group employed over 85,000 people worldwide, invested 8.7 billion Swiss francs in R&D and posted sales of 46.8 billion Swiss francs. Genentech, in the United States, is a wholly owned member of the Roche Group. Roche is the majority shareholder in Chugai Pharmaceutical, Japan. For more information, please visit http://www.roche.com or http://www.usdiagnostics.roche.com.

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Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) Precision medicine integrates molecular and clinical research with patient data and outcomes, aiming to place the patient at the center of all elements. In this...

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