ATK Helps NASA Develop, Test Green Propulsion Tech; Cary Ralston Comments
ATK has developed a thruster technology for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center that is intended to help store and handle materials, as well as process the launch site. The company completed the first U.S.-based tests of the high performance green propulsion technology after previously evaluating the system’s fidelity and operability in space at its facility [...]
NASA put three sections of its Goddard Space Flight Center software patents up for auction on March 29, Wired reports. The space agency put software development patents, autonomic computing and autonomic safety systems patents up for grabs at the ICAP Ocean Tomo IP Auction. NASA sold the development patents for $75,000, according to Wired. The [...]
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Ball Aerospace Installs Mirrors on Northrop’s Webb Telescope, Pre-Launch Testing Soon
February 27, 2012 1 CommentBall Aerospace & Technologies Corp. completed installing a set of auxiliary mirrors for the Northrop Grumman-built James Webb Space Telescope and Northrop will start the next phase of tests in May. Northrop said it will test the telescope’s ability to withstand the rocket launch and the cold temperatures of space. Northrop is the prime contractor [...]
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NASA is planning to offer the agency’s scientists a cloud marketplace, or storefront, allowing them to determine their computing needs and access cloud services from any location. NASA is cited as a success story in government cloud computing for its Nebula cloud computing platform, a private cloud platform using open source software, according to a report [...]
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A 26-year-old Texas man has been sentenced to two years in prison after admitting to hacking into computer networks at a Minnesota business and at NASA, the FBI’s Minneapolis office announced. In his plea agreement, Jeremey Parker of Houston, Texas, admitted to breaking into computer network of SWReg, Inc., a subsidiary of the cyber-based company [...]
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A Romanian hacker claims to have intruded a computer server at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and gained access to confidential satellite data, SecurityNewsDaily reports. The hacker, who goes by the name TinKode, last week boasted on Twitter about breaching the server. He also posted a screen shot on his blog, seemingly displaying a Goddard [...]
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