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Saturday, May 29, 2010
NASA Conducts Successful Parachute Development Test
On April 14, NASA conducted a drogue parachute drop test at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, Ariz. The 68-foot-diameter drogue and all test hardware functioned properly and landed safely.
The design load limit test will provide engineers with a better understanding of the full structural capabilities of the drogue parachute, currently under development to return next-generation space vehicles safely to Earth.
This was the second in a series of three planned load limit tests designed to place the loads expected in flight on the parachute canopy. The next test series, called overload tests, will subject the parachute canopy to loads greater than what would typically be experienced in flight, to prove the parachute is strong enough to survive some degree of unexpected events.
Future full resolution images of the drogue parachute test will be made publicly available when they are fully processed:
The design load limit test will provide engineers with a better understanding of the full structural capabilities of the drogue parachute, currently under development to return next-generation space vehicles safely to Earth.
This was the second in a series of three planned load limit tests designed to place the loads expected in flight on the parachute canopy. The next test series, called overload tests, will subject the parachute canopy to loads greater than what would typically be experienced in flight, to prove the parachute is strong enough to survive some degree of unexpected events.
Future full resolution images of the drogue parachute test will be made publicly available when they are fully processed:
Friday, May 28, 2010
Sleeping in local flights ???-take care
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Airline officials are trying to figure out how a sleeping passenger was left aboard a flight for more than three hours after it landed in Philadelphia.
According to police and the Transportation Security Administration, the passenger didn't wake up when her United Express flight from Dulles airport outside Washington landed shortly after midnight Tuesday. More than three hours later, a cleaning crew found her, according to KYW-TV.
United Airlines says they're working with a regional partner carrier to determine why the plane wasn't cleared upon landing.
boy who kicked her seat
Phoenix police are investigating an incident on a Southwest Airlines flight where a woman allegedly grabbed a child who was kicking the back of her seat in March.
James Holmes of the Phoenix Police Department said a mother is pressing charges against a 42-year-old woman who allegedly assaulted her 3-year-old boy while they were on Southwest flight 582 heading to Las Vegas at the gate of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Mar. 21 at about 7 p.m.
No arrests have been made because police are still gathering names of witnesses from Southwest Airlines, but the mother described the incident to police:
Her three-year-old son either kicked or put his feet up on the back of the woman's seat when she turned around and grabbed him. The woman told the child, "You're not going to be kicking my seat all the way to Las Vegas," while she shook him and then slammed him back on the seat, the mother told police.
She and other passengers began to argue with the woman after the incident, and both parties were taken off the plane to discuss the situation.
Staff had assured her that the woman would not be allowed back on the flight, and she returned to her seats with her children, Holmes said. The woman, however, did board the same plane again, and chose to sit in the same seat over other empty seats.
During the flight, the woman harassed the family and threw garbage at them. The mother told police that the woman appeared to be intoxicated.
James Holmes of the Phoenix Police Department said a mother is pressing charges against a 42-year-old woman who allegedly assaulted her 3-year-old boy while they were on Southwest flight 582 heading to Las Vegas at the gate of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Mar. 21 at about 7 p.m.
No arrests have been made because police are still gathering names of witnesses from Southwest Airlines, but the mother described the incident to police:
Her three-year-old son either kicked or put his feet up on the back of the woman's seat when she turned around and grabbed him. The woman told the child, "You're not going to be kicking my seat all the way to Las Vegas," while she shook him and then slammed him back on the seat, the mother told police.
She and other passengers began to argue with the woman after the incident, and both parties were taken off the plane to discuss the situation.
Staff had assured her that the woman would not be allowed back on the flight, and she returned to her seats with her children, Holmes said. The woman, however, did board the same plane again, and chose to sit in the same seat over other empty seats.
During the flight, the woman harassed the family and threw garbage at them. The mother told police that the woman appeared to be intoxicated.
NOAA Maps Where Hurricanes Meet Ocean Heat
Tropical cyclones may feed and grow stronger on ocean heat,
and a new Google Earth application based on satellite altimetry observations shows where they may find it.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Spacewalker
Spacewalker 
Anchored to a Canadarm2 mobile foot restraint Garrett Reisman conducts the mission's first spacewalk. During the seven-hour, 25-minute spacewalk, Reisman and Steve Bowen installed a second antenna for high-speed Ku-band transmissions and added a spare parts platform to Dextre, a two-armed extension for the station’s robotic arm.
Image Credit: NASA
Anchored to a Canadarm2 mobile foot restraint Garrett Reisman conducts the mission's first spacewalk. During the seven-hour, 25-minute spacewalk, Reisman and Steve Bowen installed a second antenna for high-speed Ku-band transmissions and added a spare parts platform to Dextre, a two-armed extension for the station’s robotic arm.
Image Credit: NASA
Facebook launches' new mobile site
Facebook said Tuesday it has teamed up with mobile operators in nearly 50 countries to offer a fast and free version of the popular social networking site on cellphones.
"We've put all the graphics, the photos, the videos one click away so the site is text only and the pages are super light, super fast to load," said Henri Moissinac, head of mobile business for Facebook.
The new mobile site, 0.facebook.com, is "optimized for speed and it's free," Moissinac told AFP.
He said it was designed to get around the "biggest barriers to the mobile Internet -- the speed of the experience and the potential cost of browsing."
It will be available from 56 mobile operators in 47 countries.
"The total subscriber base of all of these operators is about 500 million users," Moissinac said. "So potentially you have 500 million mobile subscribers who could access Facebook mobile for free on their phone."
He said there were currently over 100 million active users of Facebook's present mobile site, m.facebook.com and the new site would allow the Palo Alto, California-based social network to expand its reach on the devices.
"Our goal in mobile is to serve every user on every phone in every language on every network," he said.
Users of 0.facebook.com can update their status, see their News Feed, comment on posts and send and reply to messages like on Facebook.com.
They will be charged, however, if they want to see photos or videos.
"They have a link that says click here to see the photos," Moissinac said. "When they click to see the photos there'll be a disclaimer that says 'Just so you know you're going to be paying data charges for these photos.'"
He said 0.facebook.com was designed to be a "permanent service." "All of the operators are committed to making 0.facebook.com free for more than 12 months," Moissinac said.
"We've put all the graphics, the photos, the videos one click away so the site is text only and the pages are super light, super fast to load," said Henri Moissinac, head of mobile business for Facebook.The new mobile site, 0.facebook.com, is "optimized for speed and it's free," Moissinac told AFP.
He said it was designed to get around the "biggest barriers to the mobile Internet -- the speed of the experience and the potential cost of browsing."
It will be available from 56 mobile operators in 47 countries.
"The total subscriber base of all of these operators is about 500 million users," Moissinac said. "So potentially you have 500 million mobile subscribers who could access Facebook mobile for free on their phone."
He said there were currently over 100 million active users of Facebook's present mobile site, m.facebook.com and the new site would allow the Palo Alto, California-based social network to expand its reach on the devices.
"Our goal in mobile is to serve every user on every phone in every language on every network," he said.
Users of 0.facebook.com can update their status, see their News Feed, comment on posts and send and reply to messages like on Facebook.com.
They will be charged, however, if they want to see photos or videos.
"They have a link that says click here to see the photos," Moissinac said. "When they click to see the photos there'll be a disclaimer that says 'Just so you know you're going to be paying data charges for these photos.'"
He said 0.facebook.com was designed to be a "permanent service." "All of the operators are committed to making 0.facebook.com free for more than 12 months," Moissinac said.
no brain cancer link to mobile phone use
The largest study to date of the safety of mobile phones has found no clear link to brain cancer, although it said further study is merited given their increasingly intensive use.
"The study doesn't reveal an increased risk, but we can't conclude that there is no risk because there are enough findings that suggest a possible risk," the study's chief author, Elisabeth Cardis, told AFP.
The results of the Interphone study, which included 2,708 cases of glioma tumours and 2,409 meningioma tumours in 13 countries over a 10-year period, is due to be published on Tuesday in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
It found no increased risk of glioma or meningioma tumours after 10 years of using a mobile phone, although it found "suggestions of higher risk" for the heavyest users.
The heavyest users who reported using their phones on the same side of their heads had a 40 percent higher risk for gliomas and 15 percent for meningiomas, but the researchers said "biases and errors" prevent making a causal link.
Given that the heavyest users in the study talked an average of half an hour per day on their mobile phones, a figure which is not heavy by today's standards, the researchers recommended further research.
They also cited the need for the study of the impact of mobile phone use among young people, who have rapidly become intenstive users, and who were not included in the Interphone study."Observations at the highest level of cumulative call time and the changing patterns of mobile phone use ... particularly in young people, mean that further investigation of mobile phone use and brain cancer is merited," said Christopher Wild, director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which coordinated the study.
The researchers noted, however, that the latest mobile phones have lower emissions, and the popularity of hands-free devices and texting reduce exposure to the head.
Cardis said the European Union is funding a new study of risks of brain tumours from mobile phone use during childhood and adolescence.
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