Why have satellite makers and astronomers beaten a path across Essex? To get to the best image sensors in the world, probably. E2V not only made the CheMin and ChemCam image sensors within NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, it is also the ...
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IDG News Service-Japan's space agency said Friday that sensitive information on a new long-range rocket project may have been stolen by a computer virus. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency,or JAXA,said it found evidence that a single ...
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Finalists for the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Best Partnership Award (announced in London on 22 November) included a laser engineering research partnership involving Compound Semiconductor Technologies Global Ltd (CSTG) of Hamilton ...
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NASA scientists may be holding onto a"really interesting"discovery on Mars that could be historic. John Grotzinger,NASA's principal investigator for the Mars rover Curiosity mission,said last week that the agency is getting exciting ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon.com's cloud services division, has claimed that more than 300 government agencies and 1,500 education institutions in the US are now using AWS for a wide variety of uses including "big data" analytics, ...
Computerworld - A robotic arm onboard the International Space Station reached out and grabbed hold of the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship today, attaching the commercial craft to the station. The station's Canadarm captured the spacecraft at ...
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Romanian national Manole Razvan Cernaianu,known online as TinKode,received a two-year suspended prison sentence for hacking into computer systems owned by Oracle,NASA,the U.S.Army and the U.S.Department of Defense and was ordered to pay ...
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Bill Moggridge, the British industrial designer credited with inventing the modern laptop, has died from cancer at the age of 69. In 1979 Moggridge designed the Grid Compass, the first computer to attach a keyboard to a folding screen. ...
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The nearside of the Moon will never resemble your Granddad's back forty, but agriculture remains the key to living and working off-world. All the mineral ore in the solar system can't replace the fact that for extended periods on the Moon ...
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The Mars rover Curiosity is on a mission to deliver what scientists hope will be groundbreaking scientific research that wouldn't be possible without robotics,according to a NASA chief engineer. "It's critical to this mission,"said Louise ...
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Computerworld-NASA has decided to take a much deeper look inside Mars to try to figure out why the Red Planet evolved so differently from Earth. The space agency announced late on Monday that it will launch a new mission in 2016,named ...
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Simulating the Mars mission Computational curiosity Landing system IT has been key to successfully landing the rover robot Curiosity, on Mars earlier this week. Mars missions in the past have not had a great track record. But the landing ...
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Rackspace is formally launching its OpenStack open-source infrastructure-as-a-service platform in the UK in mid-August. Further reading IT skills gap has led to a'talent war',says Rackspace CEO Rackspace CTO:Oracle and SAP are starting ...
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Arianespace is probably best-known as the launch services operator for the European Space Agency, and thus closely associated with Ariane rocket operations from Europe's spaceport at Kourou, French Guiana. The firm, founded in 1980 and ...
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The European Space Agency(ESA)has formally declared that the Envisat environmental and remote sensing satellite mission is now over,following the satellite's 8 April loss of contact and subsequent failure to reestablish it. The attempt at ...
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