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NASA Announces Fourth Round of CubeSat Space Mission Candidates

RELEASE: 13-064 NASA ANNOUNCES FOURTH ROUND OF CUBESAT SPACE MISSION CANDIDATES WASHINGTON — NASA has selected 24 small satellites to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned to launch in 2014, 2015 and 2016. The proposed CubeSats come from universities across the country, a Florida high school, several non-profit organizations and NASA field centers. CubeSats belong to a class...... KEEP READING

Posted on Wednesday, February 27th, 2013 in News | Tags: , , , , , , No Comments »

Earth’s Radiation Belts Surprisingly Dynamic, New Probes Find

Two new NASA probes that are flying through the belts of radiation surrounding Earth have found that these regions change more rapidly than previously thought. The Van Allen Probes — a pair of twin spacecraft formerly known as the Radiation Belt Storm Probes — launched Aug. 30, and turned on their instruments two days later. Since then,...... KEEP READING

Posted on Tuesday, December 4th, 2012 in Related News | No Comments »

Visit ISDE at NSREC 2012!!!

Visit ISDE at NSREC 2012 ISDE will be at the 2012 IEEE Nuclear and Space Radiation Effects Conference which will be held in Miami, Florida at the InterContinental Miami on July 16-20, 2012. The conference features a technical program consisting of eight to ten technical sessions of contributed papers describing the latest observations in radiation...... KEEP READING

Posted on Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 in Events | Tags: , No Comments »

Sun fires off 2 huge solar flares, could impact weather on Earth

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/07/sun-fires-off-2-huge-solar-flares-could-impact-weather-on-earth/... KEEP READING

Posted on Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 in Related News | Tags: , No Comments »

Did Bad Memory Chips Down Russia’s Mars Probe?

http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/did-bad-memory-chips-down-russias-mars-probe... KEEP READING

Posted on Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 in Related News | Tags: , , , No Comments »

Resisting Radiation

Article on radiation effects published Fall of 2009 in Vanderbilt’s Engineering Magazine. Resisting Radiation As electronics advance, so do radiation effects and reliability research. By JoAnne Lamphere Beckham, BA’62 How do you design a sunscreen for a computer chip? For that matter, why would you need to? Lloyd Massengill, professor of electrical engineering and computer...... KEEP READING

Posted on Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 in News | Tags: , , , , , , , , , No Comments »

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