space earth
RSS space earthMobiles on the moon? Nasa prepares trial for takeoff
News Director of space science at the BNSC, David Parker, said the early lunar system will be comparable to the "satellite phone network of the 1980s and 1990s on earth". During the MoonLite mission a lunar orbiter would use the technology to transmit... [19 Feb 2008]
Photos: Virgin goes Galactic for SpaceShipTwo
Photo It's covered in windows with 18-inch diameters so that Virgin Galactic travellers will be able to have a full view of space and the Earth below them as they experience zero gravity. The original SpaceShipOne, which flew to space three times in 2004... [24 Jan 2008]
Simulation of TCP for Orbiting Spacecraft Through the TDRS Satellite System
White Paper NASA engineers have designed an interface system that connects the Space Shuttle and Space Station communication system to the Internet on Earth. Simulations of the behavior of the modified TCP protocol over the Space Station or Space Shuttle links... [14 Jan 2008]
Ordnance Survey opens up mapping code
News The best of Google Earth From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. The spokesman said: "Our longer term plan is if lots of people do take a liking to Open Space and there's lots... [14 Dec 2007]
Photos of the year
Photo Photo credit: Google Earth, Nasa and Space Telescope Science Institute silicon.com talked to Graham Linehan, writer and director of tech-flavoured sitcom The IT Crowd this October, to ask him about his inspiration for the show's characters. [13 Dec 2007]
Performance Evaluation of TCP Based Applications Using Double Constellation Geo/Leo Architecture
White Paper Satellite systems based on the use of geostationary (GEO) or Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations suffer from their intrinsic limitations in terms of coverage or flexibility. Traffic requirements concerning broadband services are expected to be... [04 Dec 2007]
Photos: The best of Google Sky
Photo The Google Sky application lets users navigate space in a similar way to Google Earth - with constellations drawn out and labelled to help cyber star gazers. Photo credit: Google Earth, Nasa and Space Telescope Science Institute [28 Nov 2007]
Google DoubleClick deal: EU ramps up scrutiny
News The best of Google Earth From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. In making the decision to push the $3.1bn deal into an extended investigation, the Commission cited concerns... [14 Nov 2007]
'Sentinels' to help fight climate battle?
News Speaking at a panel discussion in Westminster, professor Alan O'Neill, director of the National Centre for Earth Observation, said: "I think that the GMES could be a critical contribution to an earth information system. [12 Nov 2007]
Vint Cerf gazes at interplanetary web
News Internet visionary Vint Cerf has predicted that in the coming decades, scientists will have developed an interplanetary web, or a common set of communications protocols that will allow sensors on spacecraft, satellites and planets to transmit... [25 Oct 2007]
In brief: Top wi-fi, zombie attack, paradise lost, malware costs
News Back on Earth, and blazing an entirely different trail, Lesley Cowley, CEO of web names company Nominet, has scooped the First Woman of Technology 2007 award, organised by the CBI. Nasa is blaming a power feed for "potentially catastrophic... [15 Jun 2007]
Google Earth takes a dive
News Google Earth has also used images from the European Space Agency's satellites to showcase stunning pictures of natural disasters. Google Earth maps of the seabed in UK waters have been released by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA). [29 May 2007]
NASA's World Wind Puts the Planet at the Fingertips of Internet Users Anywhere
White Paper Using the Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Visual C# .NET, and Microsoft DirectX, World Wind enables anyone with a PC and a broadband Internet connection to take a virtual tour of the earth, seeing three-dimensional images of the planet... [31 Mar 2007]
Redmond research lab shows what's cooking
News Microsoft research head Rick Rashid said the project does for space what MSN's Virtual Earth does for our planet. Researcher Curtis Wong demonstrated the technology for attendees, zooming out from Microsoft's Redmond campus to view Earth and then... [07 Mar 2007]
Earth Animations for Education From NASA
White Paper A person must have seen the beautiful images of Earth from space taken by NASA astronauts and satellites. By viewing a series of images one after another like frames of a movie, the person can watch changes to the Earth as they happened and can... [01 Feb 2007]
