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NASA’s radiation tolerant computer lives up to its name after surviving Van Allen belts
The computer, known as the “RadPC ... because a single high-energy particle can, according to NASA, “trigger a so-called ‘single event effect,’ causing minor data errors that lead ...
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New Partnership Illuminates Hidden Record of NASA’s Human Computers
By partnering with Margot Lee Shetterly and the Human Computer Project, the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum is ...
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NASA Shows Off Its Big Computer In 1986
An old NASA video (see below) has been restored with better sound and video recently that shows what passed for a giant computer in 1986. The Cray 2 runs at 250 MHz and had two gigabytes of memory ...
NASA's SPHEREx Observatory launches with BAE Systems-built spacecraft bus and telescope
BAE Systems (LON: BA) is celebrating the successful launch of NASA's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, ...
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NASA's human computer who inspired the movie 'Hidden Figures' Katherine Johnson passes away
Washington, Katherine Johnson, a woman mathematician who was one of NASA's human "computers" and ... "I loved going to work every single day," she said. In 2015, at age 97, Johnson added another ...