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Scientific American November 2005 David Grinspoon |
Making Tracks on Mars Book Reviews: Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet by Steve Squyres... Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination by Robert Markley... |
Science News October 15, 2005 Ivars Peterson |
Chaotic Moon When the Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft swung within 500 kilometers of Saturn's moon Hyperion last month, it snapped close-up photos that revealed a spectacularly cratered, craggy, splintered pile of rubble. With its spongy look, it bore little resemblance to any other satellite of Saturn. |
PC Magazine October 12, 2005 Sebastian Rupley |
My Orbit: Send Your Own Satellite For about $40,000, students and organizations can send their own satellites into orbit around the Earth through the CubeSat Project. |
InternetNews October 13, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Discount Space Flights up For Grabs An e-commerce site dedicated to finding online savings is giving would-be astronauts a break on upcoming commercial space flights. |
Scientific American October 10, 2005 Alexander Hellemans |
A Force to Reckon With What applied the brakes on Pioneer 10 and 11? A proposal to analyze telemetry from the early years could literally point toward the correct explanation. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 John McHale |
Deep Impact Probe Uses Express Logic's ThreadX RTOS, Green Hills Software's MULTI IDE ThreadX is a small-footprint, highly responsive real time operating system, ideal for applications in resource-constrained systems like those aboard the Deep Impact spacecraft. All software for the project was developed using MULTI IDE, a completely integrated development environment for embedded applications. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 John Keller |
NASA Taps Space Power Electronics for Optoelectronic Space Components Space Power Electronics will provide power converter assembly electronic boards and laser electronic assembly electronic boards for the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) measurement investigation that will be aboard the LRO. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2005 John Keller |
Chip manufacturers expand their options for radiation-hardened solid-state memory Use of radiation-hardened and radiation-tolerant solid-state memory chips is on the rise with applications in manned and unmanned space vehicles, military electronics, and even in high-altitude aircraft avionics. |
Reason October 2005 Jeff Taylor |
DIY Sci-Fi While governments have long been at the forefront of space exploration, cheap computing power has brought complex design and engineering tasks within reach of small teams of problem solvers. |
Geotimes October 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Moon Soil, Earth Air? Apollo astronauts brought back samples of soil from the moon that contained unexpectedly high levels of nitrogen. New research is shedding light on the anomaly. |
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