The official launch countdown for Saturday’s launch of Space Shuttle Discovery and STS-121 began today at 5 p.m. EDT, with the launch clock set at T-43 hours. But for many at NASA, the countdown has been running since last July, when a piece of foam fell off Discovery’s external tank (ET) during launch. NASA managers quickly grounded the entire fleet, including Discovery, barely into her first day in orbit.
The Hubble Space Telescope’s main camera has been offline since Monday, June 19, according to NASA. While scientists aren’t precisely sure why Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) reported invalid data and suspended operation, Ed Ruitberg, acting Hubble Space Telescope operations project manager at NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, says engineers have been working to uncover why two of the three detectors in the ACS went into standby—cutting Hubble’s observation capacity in half.
Researchers at IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology announced today that they have surpassed the speed record for silicon-based chips by using a new semiconductor that operates about 250 times faster than those powering chips today.
As seen in Popular Mechanics. Two years after NASA’s Genesis probe failed to deploy her parachute upon re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere, investigators have found the …
European scientists unveiled a powerful new employee to help them in this millenium’s take on a space race to Mars and challenge U.S. exploration efforts of the planet: a robotic rover vehicle nicknamed “Bridget.”
As seen in Popular Mechanics. Competing with re-thought training wheels, parachute recovery systems, automatic candle extinguishers, off-road wheelchairs and every “Quad Zipper” in between, the winner …
As seen in Popular Mechanics. Motorcyclists know how terrifying—and possibly fatal—a fall can be. Designed to complement the use of a helmet, Triple T Sales’ Hit-Air …
As seen in Popular Mechanics. We see some pretty handy tools here at PM, but when it comes to moving bulky items, this one biggest cake …
As seen in Popular Mechanics. Just what we all need: more 24. Apple Computer’s iTunes Music Store began selling Fox Entertainment programming yesterday in what is …
As seen in Popular Mechanics. As much as we like power tools, it seems some San Francisco fanatics have us beat. On Sunday afternoon at the …
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