Friday Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on September 15, 2005 at 5:34:56 PM
Microsoft changes Software Assurance.
Fitness in space.
Cassini finds Saturn's spokes.
To the moon in 2018.
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Under the new changes, users with Software Assurance on their client operating system will also have exclusive access to Windows Vista Enterprise, a top-end version of the next-generation Windows operating system scheduled for release in 2006, as well as Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs--a Windows variant aimed at helping customers improve security and manageability of their legacy hardware.
Fitness in space.
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One astronaut sits upon a suspended bicycle-like contraption, opposite which hangs a platform containing another astronaut - both are attached to a central pole to form a centrifuge. By pedalling the cycle, the astronaut causes the centrifuge to spin, swinging the bike and platform outwards. On the platform, the crew member could attach a treadmill or perform other exercises. Through the spinning, both astronauts would feel artificial gravity.
Cassini finds Saturn's spokes.
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By observing the spokes on the dark side of Saturn’s rings, Cassini recreated a bit of space exploration history. Its predecessor, Voyager, also first observed the ring spoke phenomena while photographing the unilluminated side of the Saturn’s rings.
To the moon in 2018.
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NASA would like to field the Crew Exploration Vehicle by 2011, or within a year of when it plans to fly the space shuttle for the last time. Development of the heavy lift launcher, lunar lander and Earth departure stage would begin in 2011. By that time, according to NASA’s charts, the space agency would expect to be spending $7 billion a year on its exploration efforts, a figure projected to grow to more than $15 billion a year by 2018, that date NASA has targeted for its first human lunar landing since Apollo 17 in 1972.