A free ESA app released today turns a popular iPhone-controlled ‘home drone’ into a spacecraft. The augmented reality game lets owners of Parrot AR.Drone quadcopters attempt dockings with a simulated International Space Station while flying their drones for real – in the process helping to improve robotic rendezvous methods.
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been providing astounding images of the universe since April 1990 and has led to remarkable discoveries. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the next-generation telescope that will peer even deeper into space and unveil even more mysteries. Both of these extraordinary telescopes are now the topics of two free e-books available from the Apple iBookstore.… Read the rest of this article
A stunning array of images of our home planet, taken by Earth-observing science satellites, are featured in a new NASA publication. The book, “Earth as Art,” is available in hardcover, electronically, and as a free iPad application.
The 158-page book celebrates the aesthetic beauty of Earth in the patterns, shapes, colors and textures of the land, oceans, ice and atmosphere. … Read the rest of this article
NASA is helping pigs and birds explore the Martian terrain and shed light on the agency’s missions to the Red Planet in the latest update to the game Angry Birds Space. Rovio Entertainment, creator of Angry Birds, announced the update Thursday, complete with a cast of agency rovers and landers.
Earlier this year, millions of gamers were introduced to … Read the rest of this article
Marking the 43rd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, NASA has added an extensive collection of historical video, audio, photographs and documents to iTunes U.
iTunes U is a platform for making educational resources available to a wide audience through the iTunes Store.
NASA’s History Program Office iTunes U site currently contains about 300 items that represent a broad … Read the rest of this article
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A NASA-created application that brings some of the agency’s robotic spacecraft to life in 3-D now is available for free on the iPhone and iPad.
Called Spacecraft 3D, the app uses animation to show how spacecraft can maneuver and manipulate their outside components. Presently, the new app features two NASA missions, … Read the rest of this article
NASA has released an interactive, educational video game called NetworKing that depicts how the Space Communication and Navigation (SCaN) network operates. The release of the video game coincides with the close of World Space Week, Oct. 4-10.
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In the game, as a new Network Manager, your job will be to build and upgrade a complex communications network in order to …
Idle home computers are being sought to help search through tons of astronomical data. The Skynet project involves using the spare processing capacity of computers as a giant, distributed supercomputer. PCs joining Skynet will scour the data for sources of radiation that reveal stars, galaxies along with other cosmic structures.
People who process the most data could win a visit … Read the rest of this article
Commercial space entrepreneurs are developing rockets that will take tourists to the moon in the not-too-distant future. But a software maker has taken a head start on the adventure by simulating a lunar ride for the PC user.
Virtue Arts, based in Los Angeles, has developed software that renders the exact physics and topology of the moon in a 3D … Read the rest of this article
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