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NASA knowledge map
From: whatidiscover | Date: 8/15/2008 | Rated: 0 (0) | Views: 87 | Downloads: 9

NASA knowledge map NASA http://appel.nasa.gov/ask/pdf/pdf22/ASK_Winter_2006_pullout.pdf more>>

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Design of a Mach-3 Nozzle for TBCC Testing in the NASA LaRC 8-ft High Temperature Tunnel
From: Prospero | Date: 7/28/2008 | Rated: 0 (0) | Views: 53 | Downloads: 1

Gaffney, Richard L., Jr. (NASA Langley Research Center) Norris, Andrew T. (NASA Langley Research Center) A new nozzle is being constructed for the NASA Langley Research Center 8-Foot High Temperature Tunnel. The axisymmetric nozzle was designed with a Mach-3 exit flow for testing Turbine-Based Combined-Cycle engines at a Mach number in the ...  more>>

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Aviation Innovators Compete for NASA Technology Prizes
From: MissPowerPoint | Date: 7/28/2008 | Rated: 0 (0) | Views: 47 | Downloads: 1

Aviation Innovators Compete for NASA Technology Prizes The 2008 General Aviation Technology Challenge will be held Aug. 4-10 at the Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa, Calif. Competitors will demonstrate innovations resulting in aircraft that are safer, less expensive and easier to operate, while having fewer negative impacts on the environment an ...  more>>

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Standardizing Interfaces for External Access to Data and Processing for the NASA Ozone Product Evaluation and Test Element (PEATE)
From: Prospero | Date: 7/28/2008 | Rated: 0 (0) | Views: 55 | Downloads: 0

Tilmes & Fleig (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center): NASA's traditional science data processing systems have focused on specific missions, and providing data access, processing and services to the funded science teams of those specific missions. Recently NASA has been modifying this stance, changing the focus from Missions to Measurements. more>>

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The Story of NASA's Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network
From: Prospero | Date: 6/24/2008 | Rated: 0 (0) | Views: 1579 | Downloads: 36

Tsiao, Sunny (ITT Industries, Inc.); Historic account is provided of NASA's Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network (STDN), starting with its formation in the late 1950s to what it is today in the first decade of the 21st century. more>>

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Overview of CFD Validation Experiments for Circulation Control Apps at NASA
From: Prospero | Date: 9/1/2008 | Rated: 0 (0) | Views: 45 | Downloads: 0

Jones, Lin, Allan, Milholen, Rumsey & Swanson (NASA Langley); Circulation control is a viable active flow control approach that can be used to meet the NASA Subsonic Fixed Wing projects, Cruise Efficient Short Take Off and Landing goals. Currently, circulation control systems are primarily designed using empirical methods. However, large ...  more>>

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Nasa Fire ESDR
From: dorebaugh | Date: 8/17/2008 | Rated: 0 (0) | Views: 28 | Downloads: 0

White Paper on a NASA Fire ESDR 1. Name: The Fire ESDR (consisting of two sub-records active fire and burned area) 2. Primary Authors: Justice, Giglio, Roy, Csiszar, Boschetti, Korontzi, Wooster The need exists for satellite information on the occurrence of fires on the land surface since fire changes the surface cover type and properties and relea ...  more>>

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Nasa Weekly Update Mars Landing
From: bamafun | Date: 5/25/2008 | Rated: 0 (0) | Views: 324 | Downloads: 0

Vol. 3 – No. 20 NASA Weekly Update Week of May 12 - 19, 2008 May 19: Discovery Launch Date to be Finalized Today: Top NASA officials are gathered today at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to assess preparations for space shuttle Discovery's STS-124 mission to the International Space Station. Known as the Flight Readiness Review, the meeting  ...  more>>

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Hemispheric and Topographic Asymmetry of Magnetospheric Particle Irradiation for Icy Moon Surfaces
From: Prospero | Date: 9/1/2008 | Rated: 0 (0) | Views: 33 | Downloads: 0

Cooper, John F. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Sturner, S. J. (Maryland Univ. Baltimore County); All surfaces of icy moons without significant atmospheres, i.e. all except Titan in the giant planet systems, are irradiated by hot plasma and more energetic charged particles from the local magnetospheric environments. more>>

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White Paper on a NASA Fire ESDR
From: sammyc2007 | Date: 6/10/2008 | Rated: 0 (0) | Views: 51 | Downloads: 2

White Paper on a NASA Fire ESDR 1. Name: The Fire ESDR (consisting of two sub-records active fire and burned area) 2. Primary Authors: Justice, Giglio, Roy, Csiszar, Boschetti, Korontzi, Wooster The need exists for satellite information on the occurrence of fires on the land surface since fire changes the surface cover type and properties and relea ...  more>>

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NASA Unaffordable Unsustainable Earth to Orbit Transportation Whitepaper
From: D27 | Date: 12/29/2007 | Rated: 0 (0) | Views: 137 | Downloads: 1

Unaffordable and Unsustainable? Signs of Failure in NASA's Earth-to-orbit Transportation Strategy A Policy White Paper of the Space Frontier Foundation Published: 25 July 2006 For more information, or comments, contact: Jeff Krukin, Executive Director Space Frontier Foundation jkrukin@spacef ...  more>>

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Application of Pi Preform Composite Joints in Fabrication of NASA Composite Crew Module Demonstration Structure
From: Prospero | Date: 7/28/2008 | Rated: 0 (0) | Views: 88 | Downloads: 2

Higgins, John E. (Air Force Research Lab.), Pelham, Larry (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center): This paper will describe unique and extensive use of pre-woven and impregnated pi cross-sections in fabrication of a carbon composite demonstration structure for the Composite Crew Module (CCM) Program. The program is managed by the NASA Safety and ...  more>>

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Apparatus and Method for Packaging and Integrating Microphotonic Devices
From: Prospero | Date: 9/1/2008 | Rated: 0 (0) | Views: 24 | Downloads: 0

NASA Glenn; An apparatus is disclosed that includes a carrier structure and an optical coupling arrangement. The carrier structure is made of a silicon material and allows for the packaging and integrating of microphotonic devices onto a single chip. The optical coupling mechanism enables laser light to be coupled into and out of a microphotonic ...  more>>

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Measured Rattle Threshold of Residential House Windows
From: Prospero | Date: 9/1/2008 | Rated: 0 (0) | Views: 23 | Downloads: 0

Sizov, Natalia, Schultz, Troy & Hobbs, Christopher (Wyle Labs., Inc.) & Klos, Jacob (NASA Langley Research Center); Window rattle is a common indoor noise effect in houses exposed to low frequency noise from such sources as railroads, blast noise and sonic boom. Human perception of rattle can be negative that is a motivating factor of the current ...  more>>

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Aircraft Engine On-Line Diagnostics Through Dual-Channel Sensor Measurements: Development of an Enhanced System
From: Prospero | Date: 9/1/2008 | Rated: 0 (0) | Views: 20 | Downloads: 1

ASME Turbo Expo 2008 Berlin 9-13 Jun. 2008; NASA Glenn; In this paper, an enhanced on-line diagnostic system which utilizes dual-channel sensor measurements is developed for the aircraft engine application. The enhanced system is composed of a nonlinear on-board engine model (NOBEM), the hybrid Kalman filter (HKF) algorithm, and fault detection ...  more>>

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