KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM (With Misan) Part 11: MUN LANDING!
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The Space Flight Awareness (SFA) program recently recognized Barrios Technologys MAPI employee Dana Tobeck with the prestigious SFA Honoree Award for her dedication and commitment to the ISS Program.
Tobeck, a Principal Project Controls Specialist, was recognized for her leadership in establishing work plan and management systems. Tasked with organizing how MAPI tracks over 40,000 contract-delivered products and service units for each Statement of Work (SOW) element, Tobeck developed a measurement system along with training for MAPI management that ensures quality Annual Work Plans (AWPs) and provided management insight into work variances. She personally working with each supervisor to ensure her approach was consistently applied across the organization. For FY2015, Tobeck utilized lessons learned to improve tracking, partnering, and review processes. She reduced the size for the FY2015 AWP by 45%, and initiated earlier interactions with the NASA customer. The improved process allowed the AWP product to be provided to the NASA customer one month early and eliminating approximately three months of coordination effort between 45 NASA points of contact and 27 MAPI personnel.
Tobeck has worked in the space industry for over 15 years on various NASA programs. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Houston as well as a graduate degree from Texas A&M University.
The SFA Honoree Award is one of the highest presented to NASA and industry. To qualify, the individuals must have contributed beyond their normal work requirements to achieve significant impact on attaining a particular human space flight program goal; contributed to a major cost savings; been instrumental in developing modification to hardware, software, or materials that increase reliability, efficiency, or performance; assisted in operational improvements; or been a key player in developing a beneficial process improvement.
The SFA Program is a NASA managed motivational program geared at ensuring that every employee involved in human space flight is aware of the importance of their role in promoting astronaut safety and mission success in the critical, challenging task of flying humans in space by communicating and educating the government and industry workforce about human space flight.
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The private space travel company Virgin Galactic is more committed than ever to its commercial spaceliner business as it recovers from a tragic SpaceShipTwo crash that killed one test pilot and injured another last year, company founder Sir Richard Branson wrote Friday (Jan. 2).
In a blog postreflecting on the Oct. 31 SpaceShipTwo crash, Branson wrote that he initially had doubts about whether it was wise to proceed with SpaceShipTwo's development in the wake of the tragic test flight. But ultimately, he and the company decided to move forward.
"As I traveled from my home to Mojave that Friday evening, I found myself questioning seriously for the first time, whether in fact it was right to be backing the development of something that could result in such tragic circumstances," Branson wrote in the blog post.
"In short was Virgin Galactic, and everything it has stood for and dreamt of achieving, really worth it? I got a very firm answer to that question immediately when I landed in Mojave. From the designers, the builders, the engineers, the pilots and the whole community who passionately believed and still believe that truly opening space and making it accessible and safe is of vital importance to all our futures." [SpaceShipTwo Crash Investigation in Photos]
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo spaceliner is designed to carry eight people (two pilots and six passengers) on roundtrips to suborbital space for $250,000 per seat. The spacecraft is designed to be launched from a high-altitude carrier plane called WhiteKnightTwo. Branson, a British billionaire, founded the company in 2004.
The Oct. 31 SpaceShipTwo accident killed co-pilot Michael Alsbury and seriously injured pilot Peter Siebold after the vehicle broke apart and crashed during a test flight over California's Mojave Desert. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) opened an investigation into the crash, which will take months at the least to complete.
In November, NTSB officials reported that SpaceShipTwo's unique "feathering" system on its tail, which is designed to be used during re-entry, had deployed prematurely during the flight, apparently by Alsbury. At the time, Siebold was unaware of the feathering system's early deployment, according to a preliminary NTSB report.
Branson's blog post also said Virgin Galactic's customers who paid up to $250,000 apiece for a seat displayed an "outpouring of support" in the days following the crash. However, multiple media reports have stated that some customers have requested refunds since the crash, including the United Kingdom's Princess Beatrice.
Virgin Galactic has pushed back the first flight date for its space tourism business many times over the years, but prior to the crash, Branson had estimated it would happen in late 2014 or sometime in 2015. The company is currently building a second SpaceShipTwo vehicle, which would be the next in line for flight tests once it is completed.
The company has not released an estimated start time since, but Branson's blog post said Virgin will show "unwavering commitment to safety and a renewed sense of purpose."
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Technology Innovations Spin NASA #39;s SMAP into Space. It #39;s active. It #39;s passive. And it #39;s got a big, spinning lasso. Scheduled for launch on Jan. 29, 2015, NASA #39;s Soil Moisture Active Passive...
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It's active. It's passive. And it's got a big, spinning lasso.
Scheduled for launch on Jan. 29, 2015, NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) instrument will measure the moisture lodged in Earth's soils with an unprecedented accuracy and resolution. The instrument's three main parts are a radar, a radiometer and the largest rotating mesh antenna ever deployed in space.
Remote sensing instruments are called "active" when they emit their own signals and "passive" when they record signals that already exist. The mission's science instrument ropes together a sensor of each type to corral the highest-resolution, most accurate measurements ever made of soil moisture -- a tiny fraction of Earth's water that has a disproportionately large effect on weather and agriculture.
To enable the mission to meet its accuracy needs while covering the globe every three days or less, SMAP engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, designed and built the largest rotating antenna that could be stowed into a space of only one foot by four feet (30 by 120 centimeters) for launch. The dish is 19.7 feet (6 meters) in diameter.
"We call it the spinning lasso," said Wendy Edelstein of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, the SMAP instrument manager. Like the cowboy's lariat, the antenna is attached on one side to an arm with a crook in its elbow. It spins around the arm at about 14 revolutions per minute (one complete rotation every four seconds). The antenna dish was provided by Northrop Grumman Astro Aerospace in Carpinteria, California. The motor that spins the antenna was provided by the Boeing Company in El Segundo, California.
"The antenna caused us a lot of angst, no doubt about it," Edelstein noted. Although the antenna must fit during launch into a space not much bigger than a tall kitchen trash can, it must unfold so precisely that the surface shape of the mesh is accurate within about an eighth of an inch (a few millimeters).
The mesh dish is edged with a ring of lightweight graphite supports that stretch apart like a baby gate when a single cable is pulled, drawing the mesh outward. "Making sure we don't have snags, that the mesh doesn't hang up on the supports and tear when it's deploying -- all of that requires very careful engineering," Edelstein said. "We test, and we test, and we test some more. We have a very stable and robust system now."
SMAP's radar, developed and built at JPL, uses the antenna to transmit microwaves toward Earth and receive the signals that bounce back, called backscatter. The microwaves penetrate a few inches or more into the soil before they rebound. Changes in the electrical properties of the returning microwaves indicate changes in soil moisture, and also tell whether or not the soil is frozen. Using a complex technique called synthetic aperture radar processing, the radar can produce ultra-sharp images with a resolution of about half a mile to a mile and a half (one to three kilometers).
SMAP's radiometer detects differences in Earth's natural emissions of microwaves that are caused by water in soil. To address a problem that has seriously hampered earlier missions using this kind of instrument to study soil moisture, the radiometer designers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, developed and built one of the most sophisticated signal-processing systems ever created for such a scientific instrument.
The problem is radio frequency interference. The microwave wavelengths that SMAP uses are officially reserved for scientific use, but signals at nearby wavelengths that are used for air traffic control, cell phones and other purposes spill over into SMAP's wavelengths unpredictably. Conventional signal processing averages data over a long time period, which means that even a short burst of interference skews the record for that whole period. The Goddard engineers devised a new way to delete only the small segments of actual interference, leaving much more of the observations untouched.
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In December, NASA reported that its Mars rover Opportunity, which has been working the surface of Mars for over 10 years, was experiencing continuing Flash memory problems. As a result, the project team decided to operate the rover without using the non-volatile Flash storage system. Instead, they had to rely on the volatile random access memory (RAM) for temporary storage of telemetry and rover data. NASA said at the time that its longer term plan was to implement a strategy to mask off the troubled sector of Flash and resume using the remainder of the Flash file system in normal operations.
The fault, thought to be due to the robots age, has resulted in the six-wheeled vehicle resetting unexpectedly.
According to the BBC, NASA now believes it has found a way to hack the rovers software which will enable it to disregard the faulty part. NASA project manager John Callas told Discovery News how his team intended to solve the issue.
Callas explained that the rover has two key types of memory volatile and non-volatile. Non-volatile memory remembers information even when powered down. This makes it perfect for longer term storage. Volatile memory is more like PC RAM data is lost when power is lost or turned off.
Opportunitys memory fault means that it cannot save telemetry data to the flash memory. It then writes it to the volatile memory instead and any data is lost when the rover powers down.
Callas describes this problem as amnesia. Essentially, each time it powers down it forgets what it has done. The problem was relatively minor and benign at first but is now becoming much worse. NASA now reports that the fault is causing the rover to reset itself. On occasions, it even stops communicating with mission control altogether. The rover keeps attempting to save data to the flash memory but repeatedly fails. As a consequence, its software keeps forcing the rover to reboot time and time again and to forget what the previous command instructed it to do. Callas likens this to your car stalling every five minutes on a family day out. The situation took a turn for the worse when Opportunity failed to communicate with mission control over the Christmas period.
NASAs hack involves persuading the rovers software to ignore the faulty part of its flash memory and to write to the healthy hardware instead. The fix will probably take around two weeks. Longer term prospects for Opportunity are not great, however, and its life on Mars may be coming to an end. Callas believes that it could suffer terminal failure at any time. Nevertheless, the rover has lasted much longer than its expected three months on the Red Planet. In its ten years on Mars, Opportunity has roamed over 26 miles across the surface of Mars surface. The data it has gathered has provided vital understanding of the biological make-up of Mars.
The team would dearly love to keep the mission going a little longer. Callas says that the most exciting part of the mission is still ahead. The rover is only about 650 meters away from Marathon Valley, so-called because, if the rover ever makes it there, it will have exceeded the length of a marathon while on Mars. Marathon Valley contains a variety of clay minerals from a time when Mars held pH-neutral water on its surface. The Valleys geology could give fascinating clues to the potential for life on the ancient Mars environment. Whatever happens though, Opportunity already holds the current off-world record forarover.
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Instagrams user base just surpassed 300 million, but its not surprising given that social networks are where most of us share our photos. With that in mind, Polaroid is jumping into game with the launch of Polaroid Blipfoto. But unlike Instagram, Facebook, Flickr, etc., Blipfotos online journal lets you upload only one photo a day. The idea isnt about sharing ridiculous amounts of selfies and food porn, but to document the one memorable event from your day.
A study found that we are posting about 1.8 billion new images each day, thanks to the proliferation of smartphone cameras, and that number is only going to get higher. Unfortunately, most of those photos are noise, since were just snapping at anything we see. Blipfoto is about editing; it brings us back to film photography or early days of digital, when we had limited storage capacity. Its telling you to stop for a moment, go through your days photos, and pick out the one that youll want to remember in the future.
Blipfoto itself isnt new, and its already being used around the world. Founder Joe Tree started the idea as a personal journal where he would upload one photo a day and write a small caption. That spawned into a service that has seen 5 million images uploaded from170-plus countries a small fraction compared to Instagram, but its popular particularly in Europe. Tree met Polaroid CEO Scott Hardy at a conference in 2013, and started the conversation for apartnership that would help bringBlipfoto intoits next phase.
[Polaroid and Blipfoto]were both trying to achieve quite similar things and there was a lot of parallels in what we both stood for, Tree says in a video to Blipfoto users. We can achieve so many more of our future by working together thanindividually. It takes us a huge step closer to our mission of trying to be a place where the world tells its stories.
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Polaroid is rebranding the service as well as re-launching it in the U.S. to expand Blipfotos footprint, possibly increasing the user base by leveraging the Polaroid brand. (As you may know. Polaroid no longer makes things, but licenses its brand; the rebranding of Blipfoto is just part of Polaroids strategy for its namesake, which has become more valuable than the old products it was known for.) Part of the new service is a redesign and free apps for iOS and Android, but users (called Blippers) can continue to use the Web portal. The service is free and ad-free, and the site will also host photo competitions and community discussions. The service also encourages users to support one another, whether its photography tips or weeding out trolls. In someways, the service recalls how Polaroid instant cameras were used in the past.
Of course, asking people to share only one photo is easier said than done, but Blipfoto isnt meant to replace the more popular services; its designed to complement them. You can continue to use the other sites as a dumping ground of sorts, but the idea with Blipfoto is that in the future, you can look back to your photos and spark the memories that made a particular day special, which is the idea of photography to begin with.
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Back in November 2014, Twitter announcedthat it would belaunching a native video servicein the first half of 2015 as part of its bigger strategy to position itself as a media platform. Now some more details have been uncovered about how this will work.
The TwitterVideo Player will host videos of up to 10 minutes with no limit on file size, initially supporting mp4 and mov files.There will be no ability to edit videos or schedule them within the player at least in its first iteration. And, pointedly, the Twitter Video Player will not support videos hosted on YouTube or anywhere else, just those on its own service.
The details of Twitters native video service were stumbled on by a Twitter usernoodling around, curious about what might live at the http://video.twitter.com?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000618 URL. (Its a restricted access page for now whereyou can request access to publish video content.) An angular JS file provides details about boththeterms of service as well as a FAQ about Twitter Video.
Back in November, Twitter set out its ambitions for what it wanted out of a new video service beyond that of what users can already do with Twitters Vine app, or by watching videos embedded by way of Twitters card feature.
Aside from just watching video more easily on Twitter, you should be able to record, edit and share your own videos natively on Twitter too, wrote Kevin Weil, VP of product. Alongside short looping Vinevideos, we think youll have fun sharing whats happening in your world through native video.
While the Twitter Video Player may be used by advertisers or other commercial partners, for example, Twitter will not allow third parties to sell access to the Video Player, or to embed otheradvertisements, sponsorships, or promotions on it.
Users will have some control over how the video is presented to users in timelines by way of a customised thumbnail. And it looks like while the time limit is 10 minutes, Twitter is hoping for those to be a quality 10 minutes.
In answer to whether there is a video size limit, Twitter writes, At this time we do not have a file size limit when uploading. As such, we are encouraging partners to use the highest resolution source video, to create the most optimal user experience. However, keep in mind that the larger the source file, the longer it will take to upload and process. It encourages users to make the source video bitrate as high as possible, at least 5000k bits, and the audio bitrate should be 128k.Frames per second should be preserved as per the original source material.
The move to expand Twitters video offerings comes at an interesting time for the company, and for the wider market for streamed video. For Twitter, the company has been pushing hard to find formats that bring both more viewers, and more premium advertisers, to its platform. Video has proven to be one of the more attractive formats for keeping users engaged on sites for longer, and its also an advertising format thats far closer to TV than regular internet content thereby appearing more attractive to premium brand advertisers that have traditionally favored TV for the majority of their ad spend.
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