Tag - Technologies

Next Generation NASA Technologies Tested in Flight

Teams of NASA researchers put their next-generation technologies to the microgravity test in a series of parabolic flights that aim to advance innovations supporting the agency’s space exploration goals. These parabolic flights provide a gateway to weightlessness, allowing research teams to interact with their hardware in reduced gravity conditions for intervals of...

Unlocking Trust: The Power of Blockchain Technologies

Written by Gökhan Polat, Member of the CSA Blockchain Working Group. Trust serves as the cornerstone of strong human relationships, fostering security, effective communication, cooperation, and emotional intimacy. In today’s business landscape, trust is paramount, especially in the digital realm where digital trust plays a vital role. It encompasses security...

NASA Awards Advance Technologies for Future Habitable Worlds Mission

NASA announced Friday it selected three industry proposals to help develop technologies for future large space telescopes and plan for the agency’s Habitable Worlds Observatory mission concept, which could be the first space telescope designed to search for life outside our solar system. The mission would directly image Earth-like planets around stars like our Sun...

With New RFP, OpenSFS to Invest in Critical Open Source Technologies for HPC

Today OpenSFS released a new Request for Proposals for Lustre feature development feature development, parallel file system tools, addressing Lustre technical debt, and new efforts in parallel file system development (incubators). In 2012, OpenSFS invested over $2 million dollars in open source scalable file system technologies, including significant investments in...

NASA, FAA Partner to Develop New Wildland Fire Technologies 

NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have established a research transition team to guide the development of wildland fire technology.  Wildland fires are occurring more frequently and at a larger scale than in past decades, according to the U.S. Forest Service. Emergency responders will need a broader set of technologies to prevent, monitor, and fight...