A short,low resolution video captured the final minutes of Mars rover Curiosity's descent onto the planet.At the beginning of the clip the 15-foot wide heat shield can be seen separating from the capsule carrying the rover. The images ...
Tags: Mars, Gale Crater, supersonic parachute, rover's imaging systems
Computerworld - NASA announced Friday morning that it's on track to once again launch astronauts into space from U.S. soil within five years. As part of its strategy to launch astronaut-carrying spacecraft again, NASA has inked deals ...
Tags: NASA, SpaceX, Boeing, Charles Bolden
IDG News Service-Following a four-month beta period,Rackspace has started offering its hosted servers and databases using the open source OpenStack suite of cloud software. That OpenStack has been pressed into production use just two ...
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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 ...
Tags: Rackspace pencils, UK, OpenStack, infrastructure-as-a-service platform
Fully charged:Lockheed Martin's Stalker Wireless power transmission,a notion whose principles were pondered by Nikola Tesla and Arthur C.Clarke amongst others,may soon be put to practical use as a means to extend the flying time of ...
Tags: Wireless power transmission, extend the flying time of UAVs
IDG News Service - Ask any Silicon Valley entrepreneur about their startup and they'll usually tell you the sky is the limit. For some, it's not just the limit but the goal. Combining advances in electronics and new sources of funding with ...
Tags: Silicon Valley, SkyCube, Kickstarter, DeBenedictis
Latest Introduction Meets Demanding Military 810G Durability Standards, Offers Sunlight-Readable Screen and Assorted Wireless Connections and Security Options FREMONT, CA, July 13, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- GammaTech Computer Corp., a ...
Tags: Computer, notebook, tablet, fully rugged tablets
Emcore PV cells rack up 100th satellite deployment 12 Jul 2012 High-end solar cell maker says another 120 Emcore-powered satellites are already under contract. Satellite power The one-hundredth satellite to generate its primary power ...
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Sentinel aims to go asteroid hunting 11 Jul 2012 The first privately funded deep-space mission will map the inner solar system and track dangerous asteroids. Watchful eye:Sentinel will track near-Earth asteroids A proposed space ...
Cyanobacteria bloom on Lake Erie, turning bright green near the surface. Satellite image taken Oct. 9, 2011. NASA MODIS data processed by R. Stumpf, NOAA. One summer day two years ago, Danny and Laura Jenkins' black Labrador retriever ...
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Fifty years ago this week a Delta rocket roared into space carrying a payload that sparked a revolution in the way the world communicates. On board the rocket, launched on July 10, was Telstar, the first telecommunications ...
Tags: Telecom Satellite, Telstar, US, communications
The first Lockheed Martin Orion capsule scheduled for a ride to space has arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space centre,Florida. At present,the capsule is little more than a pressure vessel.The next two years will be spent populating it with ...
Tags: Space Centre, Capsule, ULA, SLS
The new FX-USB fiber optic extender from SmartAVI is now manufactured in the U.S.A. and securely delivers USB 2.0 to up to 1,500 feet from the source and has an integrated 4-port hub at the receiver. NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA, July 01, 2012 ...
Tags: SmartAVI, USB Fiber extender, fiber optic cable, UTP
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's laser scanner suggests 22%of matter on floor of Shackleton crater could be frozen water. Pole hole:Shackleton crater at the moon's South Pole.NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter(LRO)spacecraft has ...
Tags: LRO, Laser Inspection, NASA, Shackleton crater, Moon Crater, laser scanner
European Extremely Large Telescope'approved'12 Jun 2012 European Southern Observatory(ESO)council votes for provisional go-ahead of project to build the world's largest telescope. A project to build what will be by far the world's ...