Daily aerospace technology news. http://www.spacepda.net Sat, 19 May 2012 00:16:03 +0500 FeedCreator 1.7.1 BSLC ModA http://www.spacepda.net/rss/spacepdapower.gif http://www.spacepda.net 140 20 Feed provided by spacepda.net. Click to visit spacepda.net. http://www.spacepda.net/releases.php?prid=4086 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Fri, 18 May 2012 04:00:00 +0500 http://www.spacepda.net/releases.php?prid=4087 WASHINGTON -- NASA Chief Technologist Mason Peck will join agency and Ohio officials to name nine small and medium-sized Ohio manufacturers that will receive NASA assistance to solve technical problems with new or existing products. Fri, 18 May 2012 04:00:00 +0500 http://www.spacepda.net/releases.php?prid=4084 WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will provide the commencement address to the 2012 graduating class of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne, Md. Thu, 17 May 2012 04:00:00 +0500 http://www.spacepda.net/releases.php?prid=4085 WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected the 2012 class of Space Technology Research Fellows. Thu, 17 May 2012 04:00:00 +0500 http://www.spacepda.net/technews.php3#433 NASA's researchers are pursuing the technology for slightly different purposes. The space agency thinks the Low Power Transceiver could be a cheaper option for relaying information to and from spaceships. The tracking satellites already provide nonstop data relay and communications between orbiting spacecraft and the ground. Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:27:55 +0500 http://www.spacepda.net/technews.php3#431 Magnetic parts marking has wide-ranging applicability in a number of fields. Chief among these are the airline industry as well as the electronics and health care industries. The technology could solve many problems within the Department of Defense (DOD), which recently issued the revised MIL STD 130 (L) parts marking standard to include matrix symbols for direct part marking. So many items used in the DOD and military are painted, sometimes with several layers of paint, to prevent corrosion. A permanent mark can now be applied to a part for tracking throughout its lifecycle and simply painted over in the usual paint process. Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:24:01 +0500 http://www.spacepda.net/technews.php3#122 That’s what SimLabs is helping the Ames Fatigue Countermeasures Group learn through a study entitled “Effects of Ultra-long Range Flights on Pilot Performance.” In the SimLabs’ Crew-Vehicle System Research Facility (CVSRF) Boeing 747-400 simulator, researchers are safely evaluating different in-flight sleep scheduling strategies to improve alertness and performance during ultra-long range commercial flights of 20 hours or more. SimLabs’ B747-400 Simulator Flight Deck Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:30:47 +0500 http://www.spacepda.net/technews.php3#119 A state-of-the-art environmental monitoring facility in Panama is the first to employ NASA Earth science research and space-based observations to provide Central American decision makers with early warning about a variety of ecological and climatic changes. Developed by NASA scientists, the innovative regional monitoring system is called SERVIR, a Spanish term meaning to serve. It is also the Spanish acronym for the Regional Visualization and Monitoring System for Mesoamerica. Panamanian President Martin Torrijos, NASA, other U.S. and Central American officials were on hand for the inauguration of the Panamanian SERVIR Center yesterday. Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:10:39 +0500 http://www.spacepda.net/technews.php3#99 Have you ever seen a telescope flying in the sky? The Hubble Space Telescope is in orbit above the Earth, but what about a telescope that fits inside a jet? Are there advantages to a telescope that isn’t on the ground or up in space? The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) telescope is almost ready to be put into service as NASA’s airborne observatory. SOFIA’s first scientific project is scheduled to fly in the autumn of 2005. Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:33:26 +0500 http://www.spacepda.net/technews.php3#100 The iron meteorite that blasted out Meteor Crater almost 50,000 years ago was traveling much slower than has been assumed, University of Arizona Regents' Professor H. Jay Melosh and Gareth Collins of the Imperial College London report in the cover article of Nature (March 10). Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:35:41 +0500