05 August 2016
Rio 2016 Summer Olympics Games, Brought to You by Your Local Satellite
... in turn transmit live video content of the Games to their customers around the world. In the...and NBCUniversal have announced plans to air nearly 7,000 hours of Olympic Games programming. This unprecedented number of hours amounts to over nine months ...
20 October 2017
NASA Psyche mission to use laser communication
... laser light in precisely timed photon bursts. The DSOC is being hailed as a ‘game-changing’ technology and its development phase was funded by NASA’s STMD's Game Changing Development Program. STMD stands for Space Technology Mission Directorate...
22 March 2019
Citizen science project turns research into a quest
... by turning the research into a quest. “A few of us on the team are avid gamers, so it’s no surprise we’d try to inject a bit of gaming flair into the project!” writes AstroQuest’s Christian Polson-Brown in an article on the AstroQuest website.
24 May 2017
Tests done on game changing nanotube material for thruster parts
... Materials and Manufacturing at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. “I’m not trying to be cliché, but that is a game changer!” The tensile properties of the COPV has already been tested as it hitched a ride on a sounding rocket that...
12 July 2015
The 18 quintillion planets in ‘No Man’s Sky’: how Hello Games can expand understanding of space travel
... actual distances contained therein. If you’re a science teacher trying to explain space to middle-schoolers, getting them to play a game like “No Man’s Sky” for a week could constitute an immersive experience into the topic. More importantly, if the...
January 2018
SLS ushers transformation of deep space exploration
...configuration, SLS will be capable of delivering more than 130 metric tons to LEO. Heritage development SLS offers game-changing opportunities for spacecraft designers and mission planners The SLS architecture takes advantage of resources established...
