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NASA Simulator Shapes Orion Spacecraft Design
NASA is using flow simulations running on its Pleiades supercomputer to help design the agency’s next manned spacecraft, Orion. Crew safety is paramount, so NASA engineers are using the ...Full Article
Servers in Orbit, Datacenters Not Far Behind
The International Space Station shines a little brighter in the night sky thanks to what amounts to an orbiting supercomputer lofted to the outpost last year as part of ...Full Article
‘Wireless-in-Space’ Test Could Help Launch Sensor Nets
Big thinkers with deep pockets like uber-entrepreneur Elon Musk want to bring wireless connectivity to the masses by launching satellite Internet constellations. Given technical issues like latency and the ...Full Article
CMU Hands Curiosity Rover Its Autonomy
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/pia14175_2.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="51" border="0" />Back in July, Curiosity, NASA’s Mars rover, began a 5.3 mile journey to Mount Sharp, a 3.4 mile-high mountain in the ...Full Article
NASA Ramps Up Efforts to Bring Manufacturing to Outer Space
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/800px-The_Centre_of_the_Milky_Way.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" border="0" />The thought of building structures out in space brings to mind futuristic sci-fi films like Star Wars or Star Trek. However, ...Full Article
NASA Teams up with TACC to Simulate Space Junk
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/NASALDEF.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="62" border="0" />While debris might seem innocuous enough to those grounded on Earth, even pebble-sized junk in orbit poses a serious problem that ...Full Article
Aerojet Rocketdyne Successfully Tests First 3D-Printed Rocket Part
<img style="float: left;" src="http://www.aviationweek.com/media/images/fullsize/Space/NASA/SLS-NASA.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="59" border="0" />In collaboration with Aerojet Rocketdyne, NASA recently created and tested a rocket engine injector made entirely through 3D printing. Their successful ...Full Article
Inside the Human-Robotics Systems Project
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/640px-K10_black_rover_at_Haughton_Crater.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="64" border="0" />NASA's Human-Robotic Systems Project, which includes a series of four interplanetary K10 rovers, each with a different task is explained by ...Full Article
NASA, the Navy to Streamline Supply Chains with 3D Printers
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/navycarriers.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="68" border="0" />It would seem that additive manufacturing is poised to take on an even greater load for U.S. government agencies, as the ...Full Article
NASA to 3D Print the Future of Food
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/NASA-funds-3D-food-printer-starts-with-pizza.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="60" border="0" />NASA has awarded a $125,000 grant for a project intended to 3D print food for astronauts in space. The printer will ...Full Article
