space technology

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Cloud Computing And NASA

Adam Ritchie | CloudTweaks | April 4, 2014

Investments in space technology have produced many spinoff inventions that we now take for granted in everyday modern life. Advances in comfort, such as memory foam and shoe insoles, and life-saving technologies, such as smoke detectors and safety grooving in roads and runways, were all inspired by NASA research.

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How To Do Software Like Nasa, By Nasa

Robert McMillan | Wired.com | April 4, 2014

Forty years after Apollo 11 landed on the moon, Nasa open sourced the software code that ran the guidance systems on the lunar module.  By that time, the code was little more than a novelty. But in recent years, the space agency has built all sorts of other software that is still on the cutting edge.

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NASA Goes Open Source

Christian Crisostomo | VR-Zone | April 8, 2014

NASA says it will publicly releases code for many of the systems the space organization has used through the years making your DIY satellite now closer than ever.

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Qt And The International Space Apps Challenge

Adrian Bridgwater | Dr. Dobb's | April 4, 2014

The Qt cross platform application and user interface (UI) development framework has been named as a "recommended development framework" for the NASA International Space Apps Challenge.  Now under the commercial stewardship of Digia, Qt is used by over half a million developers today and can be used to create interactive and platform-independent applications.

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Startups Developing DIY, Open Source Spaceflight Technology

James Figueroa | Pasadena Star-News | September 8, 2013

Backyard stargazers dreaming of launching themselves into space will like the direction that modern spaceflight is taking: a hands-on, do-it-yourself approach is emerging to fill the gaps behind large commercial companies such as SpaceX, which in turn inherited the low-Earth orbit role from NASA. Read More »