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In an effort to spur innovation inside and outside the space industry, NASA is releasing more than 1,000 of its computer codes to the public Thursday through a new open-access software catalog.
Computer from NASA’s Apollo program reprogrammed to mine bitcoin It takes the Apollo Guidance Computer 10 seconds to compute a single hash value.
NASA scientists are developing a software ‘checker program’ to find ‘bugs’ in spacecraft computer code more quickly and accurately to improve space mission safety. Ever since a moth ...
As NASA moves towards the SLS’s first flight, putting the Orion spacecraft in orbit around the moon, there are concerns not with the rocket’s engines but rather with the computer software ...
Rod Serling! The film discusses the impact of NASA's structural analysis program, NASTRAN, on engineering and design across various industries. It highlights how NASTRAN analyzes structures to ...
Engineers are confident they can return the Hubble Space Telescope to service after it was sidelined by a computer problem.
Credit Margaret Hamilton, a 32-year-old mother and computer whiz at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who wrote the software that placed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon on July ...
The NASA-sponsored High Performance Fast Computing Challenge (HPFCC) is calling on computer programmers to increase the processing speed of software the agency uses for aviation research.
NASA, an agency that knows from experience what a software bug can do, has been working to improve software dependability and has enlisted support from the private sector.
Credit: NASA. (Photo Caption: Some of the computer labs at Marshall Space Flight Center supporting SLS avionics and software development and testing.
As with its big rocket, NASA chose an expensive, kluge-it-together software plan.
A 20-year-old hacker gained control over sensitive NASA computer systems at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and at Stanford University, then used them to penetrate other government and ...