Search results for ball aerospace:
Software coordinates 19 mirrors, focuses James Webb Space Telescope
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 24, 2007 |
3.4 / 5 (8) |
0
Scientists and engineers have created and successfully tested a set of algorithms and software programs which are designed to enable the 19 individual mirrors comprising NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope ...
NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Ready to Ship to Florida
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 18, 2008 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers are getting ready to pack NASA's Kepler spacecraft into a container and ship it off to its launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The mission, scheduled to launch ...
Nothing But Net: The Physics of Free-Throw Shooting
Nov 04, 2009 |
4.2 / 5 (5) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- Pay attention, Shaq: Two North Carolina State University engineers have figured out the best way to shoot a free throw - a frequently underappreciated skill that gets more important as the ...
Probing Question: How do dimples make golf balls travel farther?
Jun 21, 2007 |
3.7 / 5 (19) |
0
A golfer's worst enemy may be divots, but his or her best friend may be dimples -- the dimples on a golf ball that send it sailing farther down the fairway.
NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Baked and Ready for More Tests
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 23, 2008 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission, scheduled to launch in 2009, has survived an extreme temperature test.
Patent: Nintendo's Wii Football Controller
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 02, 2009 |
3.5 / 5 (4) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nintendo has come up with yet another idea for an accessory to add to its list of Wii peripherals. This time it's a soft football-shaped controller that is said to simulate the feel and touch ...
Innovative avionics enable search for habitable planets
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 09, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
The search for habitable planets continues with the March 6 launch of the Kepler spacecraft, the latest in NASA's series of low cost, highly focused Discovery missions. Kepler, built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., ...
'Curve ball' wins international illusion contest
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 26, 2009 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
Science has proven what baseball players have known for more than a hundred years, the curve ball is more powerful than the brain.
Hollow spheres made of metal
Oct 13, 2009 |
4.9 / 5 (9) |
5
Producing metallic hollow spheres is complicated: It has not yet been possible to make the small sizes required for new high-tech applications. Now for the first time researchers have manufactured ground hollow ...
Crushing cigarettes in a virtual reality environment reduces tobacco addiction
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 27, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
Smokers who crushed computer-simulated cigarettes as part of a psychosocial treatment program in a virtual reality environment had significantly reduced nicotine dependence and higher rates of tobacco abstinence than smokers ...
New Set of High-Resolution Mars Images Online
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 08, 2009 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
Thousands of image products from 233 recent telescopic observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a diversity of surface shapes and textures on Mars.
Deep Impact craft may get second mission
Jul 05, 2005 |
not rated yet |
0
Scientists were evaluating Tuesday whether the Deep Impact Flyby spacecraft is capable of embarking on a second comet interception.
WISE Snug in Its Nose Cone; Launch Set for Dec. 9
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 01, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has been wrapped in the outer nose cone, or "fairing," that will protect it during its scheduled Dec. 9 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
CU-Boulder students to be at controls for NASA planet-hunting mission
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
University of Colorado at Boulder students will be at the controls of one of NASA's most intriguing missions in recent years following the scheduled March 5 launch of the Kepler spacecraft to hunt down Earth-like ...
New instrument has potential to detect water deep underground on Mars (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 24, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (3) |
1
(PhysOrg.com) -- With the whoosh of compressed gas and the whir of unspooling wire, a team of Boulder scientists and engineers tested a new instrument prototype that might be used to detect groundwater deep ...
