Trent Perrotto Headquarters, Washington Mary Blake Northrop Grumman, Redondo Beach, Calif. WASHINGTON -- Mirrors are a critical part of a telescope. The quality is crucial, so completion of mirror polishing represents a major milestone. All of the mirrors that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have been polished so the observatory can see objects as far away as the first galaxies in the universe. The Webb...
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Solar Power System Expected to Bring Significant Savings to Naval Shipyard
From Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard Public AffairsPEARL HARBOR (NNS) -- Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PHNSY & IMF) completed installation of a $1.7 million photovoltaic (PV) system, June 1. The new system is anticipated to reduce the facility's electric bill by $89,000 per year.Nearly 1,300 solar panels were installed on the rooftop of Building 167, generating at least 250 kilowatts of power...
Top Pentagon Doctor Lauds Overseas Labs
By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, June 30, 2011 – The Defense Department’s overseas medical research laboratories will play a key role in ensuring the readiness of deployed U.S. military forces well into the future, while also contributing to global health and U.S. partnership-building around the world, the Pentagon’s senior health affairs advisor said.Dr. Jonathan Woodson, assistant secretary of defense for...
NASA'S Spitzer Finds Distant Galaxies Grazed On Gas
Trent J. Perrotto Headquarters, Washington Whitney Clavin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. WASHINGTON -- Galaxies once thought of as voracious tigers are more like grazing cows, according to a new study using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Astronomers have discovered that galaxies in the distant universe continuously ingested their star-making fuel over long periods of time. This goes against previous theories...
Add Mark Zuckerberg to your Google+ Circle!
It looks like Mr. Mark Zuckerberg – founder of Facebook – has a Google+ profile and is peeking his head in on the service. In fact, you can visit his profile and add him to one of your circles now.Android Phone, Add Mark Zuckerberg to your Google+ Circle!...
Motorola Droid 3 Accessory List Outed, Launch Buzz Ramping Up
The Motorola DROID 3 is coming soon…if rumors pan out, that is. The buzz is picking up around the device behind the scenes at Verizon with two possible launch dates being floated. The earlier of the two is next week, July 7th, while a July 14th date also seems a possibility. While no official announcement has been made either way, some details...
NASA Completes Mirror Polishing For James Webb Space Telescope
Trent Perrotto Headquarters, Washington Mary Blake Northrop Grumman, Redondo Beach, Calif. WASHINGTON -- Mirrors are a critical part of a telescope. The quality is crucial, so completion of mirror polishing represents a major milestone. All of the mirrors that will fly aboard NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have been polished so the observatory can see objects as far away as the first galaxies in the universe. The Webb...
La Niña's Exit Leaves Climate Forecasts in Limbo
It's what Bill Patzert, a climatologist and oceanographer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., likes to call a "La Nada" – that puzzling period between cycles of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation climate pattern in the Pacific Ocean when sea surface heights in the equatorial Pacific are near average. The comings and goings...
Launch Preparations Move Forward
Preparations at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are moving forward as space shuttle Atlantis' liftoff on July 8 nears. Today, technicians at Launch Pad 39A will pressurize Atlantis' main propulsion system following the closure yesterday of the spacecraft's payload bay doors.The STS-135 crew will participate in preflight interviews from NASA's Johnson Space Center today. Briefings about this final mission of the Space Shuttle...
Sunrise on the Moon
On June 10, 2011, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter angled its orbit 65° to the west, allowing the spacecraft's cameras to capture a dramatic sunrise view of the moon's Tycho crater.A very popular target with amateur astronomers, Tycho is located at 43.37°S, 348.68°E, and is about 51 miles (82 km) in diameter. The summit of the central...
Face of Defense: Scientist Serves in Afghanistan
By Marine Corps 1st Lt. Megan GreathouseII Marine Expeditionary ForceCAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan, June 30, 2011 – Every Marine has a story. For one reservist serving in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, the story is of a rocket scientist who answered the call to serve his country as a third-generation Marine.Marine Corps 1st Lt. William J....
Technology Today's June 30th Radio Show Addresses Health IT.Wonder-Cure or Expensive Placebo?
The #1 rated technology talk show on Internet Radio’s host Ajay Gupta Discusses the Growth of the Cybersecurity, Innovation and its Impact on Healthcare ITIt’s an industry being positioned as everything from the next great frontier of job creation to the innovations capable of revolutionizing how medicine is delivered in American while dramatically cutting its costs. The desire to create meaningful use of health data, to empower...
HTC Eternity leaked, should come with Windows Phone Mango
Microsoft's brand new Windows Phone Mango will be launched sometime in October this year, with the help of hardware manufacturers like Nokia, HTC, Samsung, LG, Dell and others. We've already seen one of Nokia's possible Mango handsets, and now it's time to take a look at what seems to be one of HTC's first devices to run the new OS. Meet...
Thanko's “Hot Cool Box†Doubles As A Mini USB Fridge And Heater
When winter comes, you want a nice, hot beverage in your hand, but when summer hits, you want nothing more than a nice, cold drink. Well it looks like Thanko may have the solution for you in the form of their "Hot Cool Box" which supposedly has the ability to keep drinks cold, or heat things up when desired. It connects to your computer via...
Sprint announces Samsung Conquer 4G for budget-friendly smartphone
Sprint has just announced a spanking new budget-friendly smartphone known as the Samsung Conquer 4G which will roll out this coming July 24th, sporting a single-core 1GHz processor – something which might be deemed as high end over a year ago. Apart from that, you will get Android 2.3 Gingerbead underneath the hood, with a 1.3-megapixel front-facing...
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NASA Invites 150 Lucky Twitter Followers To Final Space Shuttle Launch
Stephanie L. Schierholz Headquarters, Washington Alicia Durand Sesame Street WASHINGTON -- The final launch of the space shuttle program is scheduled for 11:26 a.m. EDT on July 8, and NASA has invited 150 followers of the agency's Twitter account to be there. People selected will have a behind-the-scenes perspective from the press site at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA randomly...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Teclast C430i Android PMP
Teclast has released their newest Android PMP in China called the C430i. The player packs a 4.3-inch touchscreen display, a Rockchip RK2816 chipset, a microSD card slot, 720p HD video playback support, an HDMI port and runs on Android 2.1 OS. The C430i retails for 299 Yuan (about $46).TechFresh, Teclast C430i Android PMP...
NASA Awards Safety Center Technical Support Services Contract
Beth Dickey Headquarters, Washington Lori J. Rachul Glenn Research Center, Cleveland CLEVELAND -- NASA has selected...
HTC Status for AT&T gets announced on Facebook
This is hardly a surprise to us. After we saw it in leaked pictures barely a week ago, the U.S. version of the HTC ChaCha got officially announced on Facebook under the name HTC Status - quite a fitting moniker for the phone which is designed to rule the social network. There are practically no differences between the HTC Status and its European...
Navy Energy Program Goes Blue to Green
By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Stephen D. Doyle II, Navy Public Affairs Support Element WestSAN DIEGO (NNS) -- Members of the California Energy Commission toured shore facilities in Navy Region Southwest, June 27, in an effort to strengthen commitments and ties with the Navy regarding renewable, green energies.The group toured...
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