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NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility crew in eastern N.O. gets award for: The director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has given an award to the crew that rode out Hurricane Gustav at Michoud Assembly Facility in eastern New Orleans. David King gave the Director's Commendation to the the 51-person "rideout" crew that stayed on the Michoud...; Tags: Components, HARDWARE, Manufacturing, NASA; Research articles 2008-10-17
Safety and Technology Trends: This is Your Captain Sleeping The two go! pilots that that fell asleep on the inter-island CRJ-200 hop last winter, completed their FAA-imposed suspensions on September 9. However, they have long since been fired by go! parent Mesa Air Group. The flight Honolulu-Hilo, flew beyond Hilo...; Tags: aircraft, GPS, Handhelds, HARDWARE, Manufacturing, MARKETING, NASA, survey; Research articles 2008-10-06
New NASA Supercomputer Will Play Critical Role as Scientists Simulate Climate, Weather and Solar Activity: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a new supercomputer that NASA scientists will use to simulate and better understand Earth's climate and weather, the planet's relationship with the sun, and the evolution of cosmic phenomena. It will also play an essential role in developing methods to analyze the rapidly increasing amount...; Tags: Components, HARDWARE, IBM Corp., NASA, Processors, Semiconductors, Servers, Storage, supercomputer; Research articles 2008-09-23
Hitachi Content Archiving Services Deliver Critical Climate Information to NASA Researchers at Warp Speed: Government Agency Chooses the Greenest Storage Company, Hitachi Data Systems, to Help Monitor Ozone and Climate Changes SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Answering the call for increased scalability and access to archived data, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT) and the only provider...; Tags: HARDWARE, Hitachi Ltd., NASA, Storage; Research articles 2008-08-26
New space telescope begins to comb the cosmos: WASHINGTON AFP — A new space telescope revealed the glowing gas of the Milky Way, pulsating stars and a flaring faraway galaxy as it began its mission to unveil the mysteries of cosmic gamma rays, NASA said. The US space agency released Tuesday the first all-sky map created by...; Tags: Components, HARDWARE, NASA, scientist; Research articles 2008-08-26

NASA's Kepler Telescope Set to Use 3PAR in the Search for Distant Earth-Like Planets: 3PAR ® (NYSE: PAR), the leading global provider of utility storage , announced today that NASA Ames Research Center has chosen 3PAR Utility Storage for a mission that will send the Kepler Space Telescope into orbit around the Sun to find planets in solar systems outside our...; Tags: 3PARData Inc., HARDWARE, NASA, Storage; Research articles 2008-06-30
Raby: 'PTH, not transistor, greatest invention': ATLANTA-After 50 years in electronics, Jim Raby believes the industry's greatest invention was not the transistor, but the plated through-hole. The guru of electronics, Raby led what an audience member called a "fireside chat" at the recent Atlanta SMTA Expo. He warmly shared stories from the dawn of the...; Tags: electronics, HARDWARE, NASA, Semiconductors, transistor; Research articles 2008-06-01
The proof is in the plastic: three-dimensional printing technology translated scans of the space shuttle tiles for safety evaluation. The same technology allows proof of concept before metal is machined: Just after lift-off, August 13, 2007, Space Shuttle Endeavour's Thermal Protection System-TPS--suffered damage due to a strike by foam insulation falling from the shuttle's external fuel tank. Sensors detected damage to the heat-resistant tiles lining the orbiter's underbelly, posing a threat to the shuttle's safe re-entry to Earth. The...; Tags: 3D, Earth, HARDWARE, NASA, Printers, printing, shuttle; Research articles 2008-06-01
Your opportunity to fly to the moon; On the web: ONLY a select few people will get to step foot on the moon. But for the rest of us there's the opportunity to send our names on America's next lunar exploration journey. Nasa is inviting people of all ages to send their names to the moon aboard the...; Tags: Databases, HARDWARE, MARKETING, NASA, SOFTWARE, spacecraft, Storage, Web; Research articles 2008-05-14
Aerospace & Defense News - Space: Mar 31, 2008 Entrepreneurs of the new commercial space age hope to start test flights in 2010 of a practical four-engine rocket ship that would take travelers on Mach 2 thrill rides up to 200,000 feet. Coming two months after British billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic unveiled a model...; Tags: aerospace, Air Force, FINANCE, GPS, Handhelds, HARDWARE, NASA, Robots; Research articles 2008-03-31
Spacewalkers place research equipment on European lab: WASHINGTON AFP — A pair of spacewalking astronauts attached Friday two pieces of research equipment on the International Space Station's new European laboratory to study the sun and carry out experiments, NASA said. Astronauts Rex Walheim and Stanley Love floated outside the orbiting ISS for more than seven hours...; Tags: Agence France-Presse, Components, Europe, HARDWARE, NASA; Research articles 2008-02-15
NASA may be asked to better monitor asteroids: WASHINGTON -- NASA could be asked to submit a more specific report on how to identify asteroids and other objects with the potential to crash into Earth. Dissatisfaction with the space agency's original report, released in March, prompted a hearing Thursday by a House subcommittee that featured testimony...; Tags: asteroid, Components, HARDWARE, MARKETING, monitor, NASA; Research articles 2007-11-09
VIASPACE Security Receives Additional Funding for Advanced Container Security Device Contract: VIASPACE Inc. (OTCBB: VSPC), a company commercializing proven technologies from NASA and the US Department of Defense, reported that its wholly owned subsidiary, VIASPACE Security , has again received additional funding on its contract from L3 Communications for the integration of software and hardware and final testing of...; Tags: cargo, hardware, NASA, SECURITY; Research articles 2007-10-08
NASA aerial drone collects disaster data.(SECURITY BEAT: Homeland Defense Briefs): A joint NASA-U.S. Forest Service program demonstrated the value of using an aerial drone to respond to disaster scenarios this summer when it flew a series of long-duration flights to map wildfires that plagued the western states. Unmanned aerial vehicles saw some action gathering...; Tags: aircraft, FAA, HARDWARE, image, Manufacturing, NASA, Scanners, security; Research articles 2007-10-01
Advisory Board update: James J. Miller, senior GPS technologist for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Space Communications and Navigation, joins the magazine's Editorial Advisory Board with this issue. He advises senior NASA management on U.S. and international GNSS policy and technology issues. Previously, Miller was Deputy Director of the Office of...; Tags: GPS, Handhelds, HARDWARE, NASA, satellite, U.S.; Research articles 2007-10-01
8(a) contracts awarded.(Directory entry): COLORADO NEWSTROM DAVIS CONSTRUCTION CO. OF COLORADO, 511 Orchard St., Golden, 80401--GSA/PBS for NAICS 238160 $604,861 OPTIMUM MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS LLC, 1600 Stout St., Ste. 2000, Denver, 80202--MINERALS MANAGEMENT SVC for NAICS 541611 $439,443; PEACE CORPS $75,000 PROTIRO INC.,...; Tags: Denver, Desktops, Dr., HARDWARE, NASA, PBS, PRODUCTIVITY, U.S. General Services Administration; Research articles 2007-09-14
Flight Test Safety Database Now Available: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration FAA have created a Web-based database designed to serve as the aviation community's one-stop reference guide for flight test safety. Officials of both agencies believe the database, which went on-line in mid-April, will...; Tags: aircraft, Databases, FAA, HARDWARE, Manufacturing, NASA, SOFTWARE, Storage; Research articles 2007-08-27
Hunt for life on Mars goes underground in new NASA mission: WASHINGTON AFP — The hunt for evidence of life on Mars will go underground next year when a NASA probe digs beneath the surface of the red planet's arctic northern plains, US scientists revealed Monday. In a departure from previous missions -- which have seen robotic vehicles explore the...; Tags: Components, HARDWARE, NASA, Phoenix Technologies; Research articles 2007-07-10
SPACEHAB Reports Successful Hardware Handover: Company to Deliver and Return Critical Components During Upcoming STS-118 Mission HOUSTON -- SPACEHAB, Incorporated (NASDAQ:SPAB), a leading provider of commercial space services, today announced the successful delivery of its Logistics Single Module LSM, manifested for flight on the upcoming STS-118 mission, to the Kennedy Space Center KSC in...; Tags: cargo, Company, hardware, logistics, NASA; Research articles 2007-06-27
Baby monitor picks up club's NASA feed with radios.(Neighbor)(Local beat): Byline: Sara Faiwell Last week's offbeat story I wrote about a Palatine mom who was seeing NASA astronauts walking around space on her video baby monitor created quite a buzz. Newspapers all over the country picked up the story and it was...; Tags: Components, HARDWARE, MARKETING, monitor, Motorola Inc., NASA, radio; Research articles 2007-06-21