Archive for the ‘Space’ Category

Nasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG. The worm was first detected on Earth in August 2007 and lurks on infected machines waiting to steal login names for popular online games.

Nasa said it was not the first time computer viruses had travelled [...]

Water On The Moon

Author: Mihail Andrici | Filed under: Astronomy, Space Wednesday Aug 20,2008

Studies made on some of the 381.7 kg of rocks and other materials gathered during the Apollo missions (much of which is currently stored at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory in Houston) proved there is some amount of water on the moon but there was no knowledge of how much there was and how to extract [...]

First images from Phoenix Mars lander

Author: admin | Filed under: Space Thursday May 29,2008

Phoenix probe, Nasa’s spacecraft sent the first pictures from Mars. It landed in the northern polar region of Mars, and began its three months months of examining a site where is considered of having frozen water. The first images from the Mars Pheonix Probe showed the space probe in good condition after its 10-months journey [...]

GPS Covering All Asia

Author: admin | Filed under: Space Thursday May 15,2008

Today’s problems involving transportation for equipment and personnel led to a wider use of the GPS. This is the reason why Chinahas in plan to have a working GPS ystem (which will include an encrypted channel as well) covering all of Asiain less than 2 years.

In spite of the 2010 deadline specified, Japanese officials state [...]

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