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Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2005 |
NASA Project Uses Data Recorder From BiTMICRO Penn State designers used the E-Disk flash drive on their Cosmic Rays Energetics And Mass (CREAM) project, a high-altitude balloon experiment that investigated the composition of ultra high-energy cosmic rays with NASA's Long Duration Balloon (LDB) vehicle technology.   |
Popular Mechanics
April 2008
Joe Pappalardo |
Sat Shot Over as Scientists Turn to Balloons for Space Particles Scientists eager to avoid wait lists to launch satellite instrumentation use balloons to detect condition of cosmic atmosphere. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2005 |
Satellite manages sensors with Maxwell computer The single-board computer will manage payload data for NASA's Glory mission, a three-year mission to investigate the composition of greenhouse gases and effect of solar radiation on the Earth's environment. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2007
Jennifer Bogo |
NASA Mission Statement Q&A: Eyes on Earth Interview with a professor involved in a study to find out how Earth scientists view NASA's shifting priorities and how it may affect the study of the planet. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2011
James Turner |
Balloon-Borne Photography Get a bird's-eye view on a budget |
Geotimes
June 2006
Margaret Anne Baker |
NASA Science: The Sick Man of Federal Research A key contributor to the Ottoman Empire's downfall was its leaders' resistance to changes and reform. The NRC report provides broad recommendations that NASA can follow to improve this disparity. Let's hope that the leaders of NASA remember their world history classes. |
Geotimes
June 2004
Naomi Lubick |
To Mars and Beyond The President's Commission on the Moon, Mars and Beyond presented its recommendations to the administration Wednesday morning, on how to proceed with the president's sweeping plan for future space travel. |
Chemistry World
December 2009
Jon Cartright |
Reading between the lines Since its emergence in the mid 19th century, spectroscopy has become the most important tool in astronomy, and in recent years there has been no end to its new discoveries. |
Popular Mechanics
May 29, 2009
Kyle Roerink |
6 Balloon Records on Par With A Flying Home The ballooning strategy Carl uses in the movie UP, called cluster ballooning, first started in 1937 and is gaining popularity today. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2, 2010
Jennifer Bogo |
X Prize CEO Thinks Obama's 2010 NASA Budget Good for Space The new approach NASA has taken has laid the foundation for the Google, Cisco and Apple computers of space to be born. And, ultimately, lays the foundation for the rest of us to have a chance to get to go to space. |
Popular Mechanics
October 15, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Balloon Rescue 101: Airborne Lessons From A "Missing" Boy The recent case of the missing balloon boy highlights many difficulties of successfully rescuing balloonists. |
Science News
June 2, 2007 |
Science Safari: NOAA's Virtual World Players of the virtual reality game Second Life can now soar through a virtual hurricane at NOAA's new site. |
The Motley Fool
September 29, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Google's Out of This World Google will be teaming up with NASA to build out NASA Research Park, a huge million-square-foot facility within NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. There, the two parties will work together on technology-based research projects. |
National Defense
February 2016
Stew Magnuson |
Planetary Defense: A New Hot Market With little fanfare, NASA in January opened up its planetary defense coordination office with a mandate to identify potential chunks of rock hurdling toward Earth and to stop them if possible. |
Geotimes
March 2005
Joseph Richard Gutheinz |
Marketing an Asteroid Threat NASA would prefer to market its successes, but with a mixed bag of successes and failures lately, they have opted for a new public relations ploy: fear -- whether it be fear of the environment or fear of asteroids. |
National Defense
August 2006
Grace Jean |
Unmanned Surveillance Balloon To Hit the Skies Aeronautics Defense Systems Ltd. has developed an unmanned surveillance aircraft that looks like a balloon but flies like a kite. |
| AskMen.com |
Europe Horns In On Mars By 2016, the U.S. may unite with the European Space Agency for future Mars trips - a move that would mark a significant shift for NASA. |
D-Lib
November 2004
Bonita Wilson |
D-Lib Featured Collection November 2004: Astronomy Picture of the Day The site is mirrored by fourteen other sites throughout the world, which is evidence of the wide appeal of the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) collection of priceless astronomy pictures. Here's the link. |
Wired
September 2000 |
Verge NASA's new helium-filled balloons are going higher and doing more than ever to understand and predict stratospheric ozone loss... |
InternetNews
September 29, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Google is NASA Bound The search giant and the U.S. space agency will work together to combine biotech, infotech, and nanotechnology for better data management. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2000 |
Around the World with a Canon Camcorder The Canon A1 Digital camcorder is used onboard the Space Shuttle, but space is not the only place where you can find scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration using Canon photographic equipment... |
| AskMen.com |
Earth Calling The U.S. space agency, which two years ago broadcast the Beatles song "Across the Universe" into the cosmos, on Wednesday discussed its latest search strategy for life beyond Earth. |
InternetNews
October 27, 2004
Michael Singer |
SGI Takes Off With NASA Supercomputer NASA's "Columbia" uses 10,240 Intel Itanium-2 chips to best IBM's Blue Gene/L and NEC's Earth Simulator. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2008
Courtney E. Howard |
NASA, Intel, and SGI upgrade supercomputer, expand compute capabilities Experts at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington, Intel Corp. in Santa Clara, Calif., and SGI in Sunnyvale, Calif., are working toward significant increases in the computing performance and capacity of the space agency's supercomputer. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2010
John Keller |
Global Hawk UAV Goes to Work for NASA to Monitor Environmental Conditions on Earth NASA is operating two Global Hawk UAVs for environmental Earth observation. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 6, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
NASA Launches Student Site The National Aeronautics Space Administration has launched a Web site aimed specifically at teenagers that gives them access to current NASA spacecraft data, potentially taking school science projects to a new level. |
Scientific American
January 2009
George Musser |
Space Exploration Sticker Shock--Economics at NASA The laws of physics are easy; it's economics that vexes NASA |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
NASA's New Office Wants To Save Earth From Asteroids In a move that could easily double as a plotline in a sci-fi flick, NASA has created a task force that will be charged with scouting for asteroids and other potentially devastating threats to planet Earth. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2007
Sandra Upson |
U.S. Earth-Sensing Satellites Left Out In the Cold The degree of precision needed to forecast hurricanes, and the future accuracy of climate modeling as well, may be in danger if recent trends in Earth-observing satellite programs persist. |
The Motley Fool
April 11, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Countdown to Moon Madness NASA targets 2008 for the next lunar landing. This could be a be a boon to big contractors such as Lockheed Martin, but smaller manufacturers such as Ball Aerospace may stand to gain an outsized share as well. Investors, take note. |
Science News
November 26, 2005 |
From the November 23, 1935, issue Radio enabled scientists to aid stratosphere flyers... Increase in malaria deaths; millions of cases estimated... Sending facsimiles by radio possible soon... |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
August 2009
John McHale |
Human Space Flight Gets Increase in 2010 NASA Budget Request NASA human space exploration programs, such as the Constellation program to return to the moon, receive increases in the 2010 NASA budget request, while space shuttle funding dwindles as NASA officials plan to retire the fleet in 2010. |
Geotimes
March 2004 |
NASA says Mars once drenched in water Scientists from NASA's Mars explorer projects announced today that they had found definitive evidence for "a lot of water" at some point in the planet's history. |
