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Nasa supercomputer gets rocket power

News Nasa is upgrading its supercomputer to cater for an expected surge in workload associated with future missions and scientific research. Working with Intel and supercomputing specialist SGI, the Advanced Supercomputing facility at Nasa's Ames...

Tags: petaflop, performance, upgrade, supercomputer

[09 May 2008]

India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...

Photo Photo credit: Nasa To celebrate Earth Day, Nasa has released its 10 favourite photos taken by astronauts on the International Space Station. This month silicon.com senior reporter Nick Heath visited India to check out the high-tech goings on in...

Tags: hyderabad, robots, bangalore

[29 Apr 2008]

Photos: Nasa's top 10 on Earth

Photo To celebrate Earth Day this week, Nasa released its 10 favourite photos taken by astronauts on the International Space Station. Photo credit: Nasa Photo credit: Nasa Photo credit: Nasa Photo credit: Nasa

Tags: mountain, volcano, earth, nasa

[24 Apr 2008]

MySQL Case Study: Nasa

whitepaper The NASA Acquisition Internet Service is responsible for providing the general public with information regarding contract opportunities with the revered space organization. A network of servers interconnecting 12 of NASA's field installations, NAIS...

Tags: database management, source, open source, acquisition

[10 Apr 2008]

Air and Water Monitoring for Homeland Security

whitepaper A critical element of homeland security lies in the vitality of the environment, which is primarily defined by the availability and quality of our air and water resources. Homeland security efforts must therefore include advanced understanding...

Tags: anti-hacking, air, water, disaster

[10 Apr 2008]

Defining Threats of Nuclear Terrorism: Part I

whitepaper This webcast explains global developments and the emerging nuclear terrorism threats. It also explains the primary potential nuclear threats.

Tags: anti-hacking, threats, nuclear, developments

[10 Apr 2008]

Defining Threats of Nuclear Terrorism: Part II

whitepaper This webcast explains global developments and the emerging nuclear terrorism threats. It also explains the primary potential nuclear threats.

Tags: anti-hacking, threats, nuclear, developments

[10 Apr 2008]

Defining Threats of Nuclear Terrorism: Part III

whitepaper This webcast explains global developments and the emerging nuclear terrorism threats. It also explains the primary potential nuclear threats.

Tags: network security, threats, nuclear, developments

[10 Apr 2008]

Using NASA's World Wind Component in Your Java Technology Applications

whitepaper World Wind is open-source software, developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that allows the user to zoom from satellite altitude into any place on earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar...

Tags: satellite communications

[28 Mar 2008]

Caption Competition: Space truckin'

Photo Photo credit: Nasa This competition is now closed. The winning caption from reader Lee was: "MTV release a trailer for their new series 'Pimp my Space Wagon'".

Tags: space, moon, address, reader comment

[29 Feb 2008]

Satellite comms to bridge digital divide?

News Satellite tech has been in the spotlight recently following reports Nasa is developing a satellite-based system to put a mobile phone network on the moon. The UN agency for information and communications issues is looking to the heavens to bridge...

Tags: satellite, digital divide, itu, ensuring

[28 Feb 2008]

Photos: Android, high-tech Heathrow, the future of shopping

Photos: Android, high-tech Heathrow, the future of shopping

Photo Nasa and the British National Space Centre intend to test a system to serve a lunar base planned for 2020. Photo credit: Natasha Lomas Hundreds of bags wait to be loaded into the high tech baggage system at Heathrow's brand new Terminal 5.

Tags: heathrow, mobile world congress, android, rfid

[28 Feb 2008]

Mobiles on the moon, Google Android, Facebook fall

News Spring is almost in the air but something else taking off this month was news Nasa is planning to build a mobile phone network on the moon. Clearly current levels of demand for mobile coverage on the big green cheese-wheel in the sky are not...

Tags: mwc, facebook, 419 scam, moon

[28 Feb 2008]

Photos: Lunar mobile phones preparing to soar

Photo In space no one can hear your ringtone - something that could be a blessing from 2012 when Nasa and the British National Space Centre (BNSC) trial a mobile phone network on the moon. The joint Nasa/BNSC MoonLite mission, due to be launched after...

Tags: mobile, nasa, moon, satellite

[25 Feb 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 22.02.08

Round-Up Anyway, the moon it is and the satellite system should ensure a full five-bar signal for lunar colonists living in the base Nasa wants to build at the south pole of the desolate, dusty rock. Nasa and the British National Space Centre are preparing...

Tags: facebook, ebay, sp1, vista

[22 Feb 2008]

Mobiles on the moon? Nasa prepares trial for takeoff

News Even in the cosmos there will be no escaping the ringtone as Nasa and the British National Space Centre (BNSC) prepare to trial a mobile phone network for the moon. The satellite system should ensure a full four-bar signal for lunar colonists...

Tags: moon, space, nasa, message

[19 Feb 2008]

Siemens Case Study: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

whitepaper In August 2002, the Mechanical Systems Division at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), a NASA center managed by the California Institute of Technology, decided to use a single source for all the tools it uses for large-scale projects.

Tags: groupware - workflow

[14 Jan 2008]

Siemens Case Study: Rocketplane Kistler

whitepaper Rocketplane Kistler wanted to build a re-usable space vehicle as cost-effectively as possible to meet schedule targets imposed by NASA to be launched in 2009. The company used a virtual mockup of the entire spacecraft incorporating manufacturing...

Tags: groupware - workflow

[14 Jan 2008]

A History of the Improvement of Internet Protocols Over Satellites Using ACTS

whitepaper These experiments have been jointly conducted by NASA's Glenn Research Center and Ohio University over the last six years. This paper outlines the main results of a number of ACTS experiments on the efficacy of using standard Internet protocols...

Tags: tcp - ip

[14 Jan 2008]

Simulation of TCP for Orbiting Spacecraft Through the TDRS Satellite System

whitepaper NASA engineers have designed an interface system that connects the Space Shuttle and Space Station communication system to the Internet on Earth. Such a system allows for the astronauts to use services like the World Wide Web and Electronic Mail.

Tags: tcp - ip

[14 Jan 2008]

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