One way to win the predictions game is to make a lot of guesses and remember just the winners. Here at IEEE Spectrum, we play a harder game. We told you what to expect in 2013, and now we are 'fessing up to our misses, as well as bragging ...
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Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier, one of the biggest single contributors to world sea-level rise, is melting irreversibly and could add as much as a centimetre (0.4 inches) to ocean levels in 20 years, a study said Sunday. The glacier ...
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The $100-billion International Space Station will be extended by four years, or until at least 2024, allowing for more global research and scientific collaboration, NASA said Wednesday. The orbiting outpost, the largest space lab ever ...
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Today the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Collaboration announced that BOSS has measured the scale of the universe to an accuracy of one percent. This and future measures at this precision are the key to determining the ...
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India on Sunday successfully launched its first rocket using domestically produced booster technology after several previous missions had failed, taking another step forward in its ambitious space programme. The Indian-made ...
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A wall-crawling robot inspired by the gecko has taken a small but important step towards a future in space, scientists said on Thursday. The tiny legged prototype could be the forerunner of automatons which crawl along the hulls of ...
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Gaia, the European Space Agency's long-awaited space observatory, is set to launch on Thursday from the agency's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The €700 million mission is designed to pin down the three-dimensional positions and ...
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The European Space Agency’s Swarm expedition was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on 22 November, on a mission to study how the Earth’s magnetic field and ionosphere vary in time and space. It started sending back data four ...
AVX Corporation, a leading manufacturer of passive components and interconnect solutions, will deliver a presentation entitled "Commercial vs. Hi-Rel Qualification Method Comparison" at the 2013 Microelectronics Reliability & Qualification ...
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AVX has revealed that the European Space Agency have approved their high-reliability TES Series low ESRLow Equivalent Series ResistanceLow Equivalent Series ResistanceLow Equivalent Series Resistance tantalum chip capacitors. Having ...
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Russia will resume launches of the Proton-M space rockets on Sept. 15, the operating company said Wednesday. "The International Launch Service's Proton return-to-flight mission will be the Astra 2E satellite for the (satellite operator) ...
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There's a "lump in the learning curve" for some organisations to overcome in the adoption and use of NoSQL databases. That's what James Tomkins, Met Office Portfolio Technical Lead, told Computing while discussing the organisation's use of ...
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After three years, OpenStack has grown into a true enterprise proposition, according to Rackspace VP of Technology and Products, Nigel Beighton, with a user community growing as the technology matures into a viable option for data centre ...
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ATA Engineering has recently been named the winner of the 2012 George M. Low award, NASA's premier quality and performance award recognizing contractors that share the space agency's commitment to technical and managerial excellence. As ...
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The Electronic Packaging business unit of SCHOTT technology group of Mainz, Germany and Tesat-Spacecom GmbH of Backnang, Germany (a manufacturer of systems and equipment for telecoms via satellite) have developed a hermetically sealed ...
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