The Moon is going to get its own 4G network, thanks to this rugged lunar rover
Nokia has been tasked by NASA to establish a reliable 4G network on the surface of the moon. One year ahead of launch, there is still much to plan for.
Nokia has been tasked by NASA to establish a reliable 4G network on the surface of the moon. One year ahead of launch, there is still much to plan for.
NASA has shut down its last mainframe, the space agency's chief information officer announced over the weekend.Linda Cureton said on Saturday that some organisations still needed the transaction-oriented capabilities of Big Iron, which allows for huge numbers of inputs and outputs, but NASA was not one of them.
SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship has successfully taken off, days after a launch attempt was aborted at the last minute.SpaceX's Falcon rocket and Dragon capsule has successfully launched.
US authorities have charged a Romanian hacker with causing massive damage to NASA equipment in an attack that took place just over a year ago.25-year-old Robert Butyka, whose handle was 'Iceman', already received a three-year sentence and seven years' probation last month in Romania, over the same incident.
NASA has released a rare video of the far side of the moon, captured by one of the two GRAIL probes that are orbiting the moon to map its gravitational field.The US space agency published the video, which was shot on 19 January, on Thursday.
Hackers associated with Anonymous brought down the websites of the prime minister, the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office over the weekend.In a distributed denial-of-service campaign dubbed Operation Trial At Home, Anonymous claimed to be engaging in a 'digital protest' at the looming extraditions of Gary McKinnon, Christopher Tappin and Richard O'Dwyer to the US.
A team led by Amazon chief Jeff Bezos has located the rocket engines that first sent people to the Moon, and plans to recover at least one engine from the depths of the Atlantic.The Apollo 11 mission, which put astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface in 1969, took off with the aid of five F1 engines that plunged into the ocean after lift-off.
NASA now has twin spacecraft orbiting the moon, a crucial stage in a mission that aims to accurately map the moon's gravitational field.The two Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) probes were launched in September.
The OpenStack cloud project is killing off support for Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor, as the code Microsoft has submitted to the project to ensure compatibility is apparently unmaintained and broken.The removal of Hyper-V support from OpenStack was suggested last Friday by release manager Thierry Carrez.
Motorola has a long history of developing and commercializing new communications technology. But the company is at its best when it exits before the market is mature.