SpaceNews

New NASA Software Checker Finds Computer Bugs Automatically

NASA scientists are developing a software ‘checker program’ to find ‘bugs’ in spacecraft computer code more quickly and accurately to improve space mission safety. Ever since a moth crawled into an ...
SpaceNews

NASA Develops New Software to Detect Bugs in Java Computer Code

NASA scientists today announced they are releasing free software that will find ‘bugs,’ or defects, in Java computer code. The new software, Java Pathfinder, is classified as ‘open source software.’ ...
SUAS News

NASA Noise Prediction Tool Supports Users in Air Taxi Industry

Several air taxi companies are using a NASA-developed computer software tool to predict aircraft noise and aerodynamic performance. This tool allows manufacturers working in fields related to NASA’s ...
Ars Technica

Computer from NASA’s Apollo program reprogrammed to mine bitcoin

I can’t wait til we go back to the moon. I REALLY hope it happens in the next 1/2 decade. Nothing like good old American exploration. People have seemed to forgotten about what that is. I hear people ...
Futurism

If NASA Had Blown Up This Many Rockets, The Government Would Have Cancelled the Space Program

As an institution, the Pentagon has come to be known for many things over the years — its transparency, its generosity, its cunning. Consistency is not one of them. SpaceX, a private company with a ...
The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

NASA program manager says foam still under consideration as cause of disaster

SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) -- A day after all but ruling it out as a leading cause, NASA said Thursday that investigators are still considering whether a piece of insulating foam that struck ...