Abstract: The Spaceport Command and Control System (SCCS) is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA)…
Month: June 2018
Asteroids and Adversaries: Challenging What NASA Knows About Space Rocks
Two years ago, NASA dismissed and mocked an amateur’s criticisms of its asteroids database. Now Nathan…
US court confirms danger posed by ‘sound cannons’
A New York appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court's ruling that two police officers'…
How Fox’s businesses would match up with Disney and Comcast
Competing bids from Comcast and Disney for the bulk of Twenty-First Century Fox come as the…
British engine maker Rolls-Royce cutting 4,600 jobs
Rolls-Royce, the British maker of plane engines, said Thursday that it plans to cut 4,600 mainly…
Samsung commits to using only renewable energy by 2020
Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest smartphone maker, has pledged to convert its operations in the United…
Apple closing iPhone security gap used by law enforcement
Apple is closing a security gap that allowed outsiders to pry personal information from locked iPhones…
Fair classroom practices disarm threat of evaluation retaliation
While tuition inflation presents a challenge for many college-bound students, an area of growing concern for…
Short gamma-ray bursts do follow binary neutron star mergers
Researchers have confirmed that last fall's union of two neutron stars did in fact cause a…