NASA discloses data breach – ZDNet
NASA discloses data breach ZDNet
Hack took place in October 2018. Agency still doesn’t know the number of impacted employees.
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Tech wrap: Wis. OKs $3B Foxconn deal; NASA launch; celebrating Voyager (+ video); HBO fights hackers – WRAL Tech Wire
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Tech wrap: Wis. OKs $ 3B Foxconn deal; NASA launch; celebrating Voyager (+ video); HBO fights hackers
WRAL Tech Wire Foxconn announced three weeks ago it planned to invest $ 10 billion in Wisconsin on the first liquid crystal display panel factory located outside of Asia. The company, which employs about 1 million people in China, said it could eventually hire 13,000 … |
NASA describes out of this world data glitch that almost finished its planet hunter
NASA’s highly successful Kepler space telescope has had more than its share of near fatal experiences.
The latest happened in April when the spacecraft went into “Emergency Mode” which among other things allows for priority access to ground-based communications via NASA’s Deep Space Network. NASA noted at the time that the spacecraft is nearly 75 million miles from Earth, making the communication slow. Even at the speed of light, it takes 13 minutes for a signal to travel to the spacecraft and back.
The spacecraft has since returned to normal function.
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NASA gives solar ionic propulsion a monster boost
NASA this week took a giant step toward using solar electric power for future space missions by awarding a $ 67 million to Aerojet Rocketdyne to develop an advanced electric propulsion system.
Such a system would deploy large solar arrays that can be used to convert sunlight into electrical power that ionizes atoms of xenon which is the propellant for the spacecraft’s thrusters. The thrust of such a power plant isn’t huge but its ability to provide increasing, continuous power over a long period of time is what makes it so attractive for long-duration spaceflights.
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