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PhastPhred
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 Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 1:28 pm Post subject: Orbit@home - Coming soon to a BOINC near you! |
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| Quote: | Project to Resume Activities in Fall 2013
Submitted by tricaric on Tue, 07/23/2013 - 20:36.
We have some good news: the orbit@home project has been selected for funding by the NASA Near Earth Object Observations program. We plan to resume activities in fall 2013. |
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LanDroid
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| Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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Knights will be tracking very small rocks, the kind that float on water!
Well, unless they impact at 50,000 KPH...
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LanDroid
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| Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 2:37 am Post subject: Orbit shutdown? |
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| Quote: | orbit@home is upgrading!
We are upgrading the orbit@home server. A new version of the system should be online in October/November 2013.
All BOINC processes related to orbit@home are stopped at this time. With the upgrade, a fresh BOINC system will be installed, and all users will have to re-register in order to continue to contribute to the orbit@home project.
http://orbit.psi.edu/ |
Nothing new, just a little more specific. Re-launch could be soon except for that pesky partial Government shutdown that dramatically affects NASA.
| Quote: | Two U.S. astronauts in space, and their support staffs on Earth, will keep working through the government shutdown that began Tuesday. But almost all the rest of NASA has been shuttered, just one of many federal agencies affected when the government shut down at midnight Tuesday because of Congress' inability to pass a budget. Many of those agencies took to social media and other online venues to share the news. Twitter was a popular choice for the messages. Among them? If an asteroid starts hurtling toward Earth ... well ... good luck.
"In the event of government shutdown, we will not be posting or responding from this account," NASA's Near Earth Object Office tweeted from its @AsteroidWatch account Monday, just hours before the deadline in Congress. "We sincerely hope to resume tweets soon."
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/01/tech/social-media/nasa-government-shutdown/ |
 <= Delaying shrubbery production? Ignoring 'Roids? |
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LanDroid
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| Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 2:50 am Post subject: |
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Interesting news, wonder if this is related to Orbit and Asteroids@home?
A NASA spacecraft that discovered and characterized tens of thousands of asteroids throughout the solar system before being placed in hibernation will return to service for three more years starting in September, assisting the agency in its effort to identify the population of potentially hazardous near-Earth objects, as well as those suitable for asteroid exploration missions.
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) will be revived next month with the goal of discovering and characterizing near-Earth objects (NEOs), space rocks that can be found orbiting within 28 million miles (45 million kilometers) from Earth's path around the sun. NASA anticipates WISE will use its 16-inch (40-centimeter) telescope and infrared cameras to discover about 150 previously unknown NEOs and characterize the size, albedo and thermal properties of about 2,000 others -- including some which could be candidates for the agency's recently announced asteroid initiative.
8/21/13
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-257 |
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LanDroid
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Another delay.  In the meantime, beware of very small rocks!
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PhastPhred
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| LanDroid wrote: |
Another delay. In the meantime, beware of very small rocks! |
NOW he tells me!!
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Killerrabbit
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Once they finally put out work is when I will believe it is a real project.
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