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Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005 |
NASA picks Octagon Systems for balloon computer The PC-680 SBC is able to manage data flow for NASA's Long Duration Balloon (LDB) program. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005 Ben Ames |
Military storage designers call for hard drives Disk drives are still getting denser-slowly-but they easily outstrip solid-state for price and capacity. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John Keller |
Global Hawk UAV Goes to Work for NASA to Monitor Environmental Conditions on Earth NASA is operating two Global Hawk UAVs for environmental Earth observation. |
Wired September 2000 |
Verge NASA's new helium-filled balloons are going higher and doing more than ever to understand and predict stratospheric ozone loss... |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 |
SCSI flash disk solid-state data storage A new solid-state flash disk drive is designed for embedded and applied computing applications in telecom infrastructure network elements, pipeline monitoring, digital mapping, financial on-line transactions, homeland defense security and similar applications. |
Popular Mechanics April 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
Sat Shot Over as Scientists Turn to Balloons for Space Particles Scientists eager to avoid wait lists to launch satellite instrumentation use balloons to detect condition of cosmic atmosphere. |
Popular Mechanics May 29, 2009 Kyle Roerink |
6 Balloon Records on Par With A Flying Home The ballooning strategy Carl uses in the movie UP, called cluster ballooning, first started in 1937 and is gaining popularity today. |
National Defense August 2006 Grace Jean |
Unmanned Surveillance Balloon To Hit the Skies Aeronautics Defense Systems Ltd. has developed an unmanned surveillance aircraft that looks like a balloon but flies like a kite. |
Popular Mechanics January 27, 2010 Joe Pappalardo |
What Happens If NASA's Constellation Program Dies? Reporters at the Orlando Sentinel created a stir today by breaking news -- citing anonymous sources -- that President Barack Obama's budget will not include any funds for hardware for NASA's human space flight program. |
Science News November 24, 2001 |
TimeLine: November 21, 1931 Turkeys... Artificial gamma radiation approximates cosmic rays... Sex difference in oxygen need for tissues discovered... |
Popular Mechanics October 15, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
Balloon Rescue 101: Airborne Lessons From A "Missing" Boy The recent case of the missing balloon boy highlights many difficulties of successfully rescuing balloonists. |
Science News April 29, 2006 |
From the April 25, 1936, Issue War Tower in Bible Was "Old-Fashioned" Even Then... Chemists Debate Value of Alcohol Blend for Car Fuel... Atoms and Cosmic Rays Yield New Science Knowledge... |
Popular Mechanics May 26, 2009 Joe P. Hasler |
Is America's Space Administration Over-the-Hill? Next-Gen NASA Forty years ago most of NASA's employees were fresh out of college. Today, less than 20 percent are under the age of 40. As the baby boomers retire, who will get astronauts back to the lunar surface? |