Posted in Technology on Jul 15th, 2009 No Comments »
SpaceX successfully launched a Malaysian satellite into orbit late Monday night, the second successful launch for the private space exploration company, which aims to reduce the cost of orbital transport tenfold. After a series of expensive failures, SpaceX had its first successful launch last September, but that mission carried a dummy payload. Before, on previous [...]
Posted in Technology on Jul 15th, 2009 1 Comment »
Scientists have been looking to replace fuel guzzling aircrafts with solar powered variants, an innovation that, in addition to passing the green test, would also enable planes to remain in the sky for longer. Darpa, the Pentagon’s advanced-research organization, recently developed an aircraft named Odysseus that could theoretically stay in the air for a decade. [...]
Posted in Technology on Apr 30th, 2008 No Comments »
This weekend a second satellite for European GPS-like project Galileo has launched to the Earth’s orbit carrying a very accurate two rubidium atomic clock. The satellite’s build atomic clock is accurate to a 10 nanoseconds a day that is the most accurate clock on orbit. In the near future by 2010 the European Union will [...]
Posted in Technology on Apr 4th, 2008 No Comments »
A new computer center in Switzerland is making original use of the hot air thrown off by its servers and communications equipment. The heat is being funneled to warm the local swimming pool. The town pool in Uitikon, Switzerland, outside Zurich, will be the receiver of the waste heat from a data center recently built [...]
Posted in Technology on Apr 3rd, 2008 1 Comment »
More than 8,000 NASA contractor jobs in the nation’s manned space program may possibly be eliminated after the space shuttle program is shut down in 2010. The number of civil servants is expected to remain approximately the same, but dramatic job cuts are likely among private contractors as NASA transitions to the Constellation program programmed [...]