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whitepaper Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data, World Wind lets the user experience any part of earth's terrain in visually rich 3D form, just as if one were really there.
[28 Mar 2008]
whitepaper 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]
whitepaper Aerospace Dynamics International (ADI) manufactures large components such as aircraft wing spars and bulkheads and panels for the space shuttle's external fuel tanks. Aerospace Dynamics International no longer has time to code intricate machine...
[14 Jan 2008]
whitepaper Since a system failure would involve a space shuttle mission to repair, the software needs to be right the first time. When the Webb Telescope takes off for its perch in space, it will be operated by some 200,000 lines of software code.
[29 Nov 2007]
whitepaper Since a system failure would involve a space shuttle mission to repair, the software needs to be right the first time. When the Webb Telescope takes off for its perch in space, it will be operated by some 200,000 lines of software code.
[29 Nov 2007]
whitepaper For a certain class of applications - software supporting life support systems or the space shuttle, for instance - this level of perfection is actually a part of the requirements, because any unexpected failure of the software would be catastrophic.
[24 Oct 2007]
News Silva said: "Our monitoring systems now resemble those for the space shuttle. Denial of service attacks are growing faster than bandwidth is being added to the internet, according to VeriSign, the company that administers the dot-com domain.
[26 Sep 2007]
whitepaper The explosion of the space shuttle Challenger and the shooting down of an Iranian Airbus by the USS Vincennes were the result of two serious consumer software and management errors. Both disasters have been reviewed in detail in the literature...
[01 Feb 2007]
whitepaper The first mission using space-borne single-pass-interferometry was launched in February 2000 - the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). The goal of this mission has been to survey the Earth's surface and generating a homogeneous and dense...
[30 Jan 2007]
whitepaper Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Michoud Operations at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Louisiana. Until recently, Lockheed Martin - which has been making the fuel tanks for over a quarter of a century - created the master...
[14 Apr 2006]
whitepaper The Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, wanted to provide wireless mobility, connectivity and accessibility to journalists from around the world reporting the most recent space shuttle launch from the Kennedy Space Center.
[10 Jan 2006]
Photo Former Columbia space shuttle commander colonel Rick Searfoss (pictured) has been appointed chief pilot by the Rocket Racing League and will fly the EZ-Rocket X-Racer prototype at its inaugural launch on 9 October in New Mexico.
[05 Oct 2005]
whitepaper NASA will utilize AGS' satellite services via Marshall, to provide Space Shuttle video feeds during pre-launch, launch and re-entry. AGS will also broadcast NASA TV, which is transitioning from one analog channel to multiple digital channels.
[23 Aug 2005]
whitepaper When Lockheed Martin Space Operations was awarded NASA's $3 billion+ Consolidated Space Operations Contract (CSOC), the contractor took on the responsibility of providing end-to-end space operations support for NASA missions, including the Space...
[02 Aug 2005]
whitepaper NASA has fundamental problems with its financial management operations that not only affect its ability to externally report reliable information, but more important, hamper its ability to effectively manage and oversee its major programs, such as...
[25 May 2005]
Leader When done well, business intelligence (BI) can bring big benefits - it can be used to track sales patterns or keep track of costs - Nasa is even using it to check the safety of the space shuttle. Taking the data held in your business systems and...
[24 May 2005]
News The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) is soon to begin a pilot project using BlackBerry mobile devices to give engineers working on the space shuttle access to reports on the move. The space agency is already using business...
[18 May 2005]
News It is very similar to what astronauts went through before the space shuttle," Cooley said. Richard Henry will attempt to break a scuba endurance record this summer - and along with his regulator and mask, he's taking some video games.
[18 May 2005]
whitepaper A new nonlinear dynamic model of the Space Shuttle - Tethered Satellite System has been developed and implemented in a new MATLAB package (with user friendly graphical interface), allowing interactive simulation and 3D animation of the TSS.
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper This brief, yet detailed report provides evidence that IV&V is worth every penny, especially when the system’s mission is critical, as in the case of NASA’s Space Shuttle Ground Systems.
[24 Feb 2004]
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