Some heading into retirement, others to private sector Almost 3,900 of NASA's workforce is set to leave the agency thanks to voluntary incentives, with senior staffers among those heading out the door.…
Lees meerSome heading into retirement, others to private sector Almost 3,900 of NASA's workforce is set to leave the agency thanks to voluntary incentives, with senior staffers among those heading out the door.…
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Lees meerVoyager Declaration rails against 'indiscriminate cuts' to science and aeronautics research Updated NASA's Goddard Center Director, Makenzie Lystrup, is to depart after just over two years in the role.…
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Lees meerAs US lawmakers wrangle over NASA’s stake in ExoMars, at least the chutes work video The European Space Agency (ESA) conducted a successful parachute test for the ExoMars Mars landing rover earlier this month, even as uncertainty looms over US invo…
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Lees meerHams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff With the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) set to shut down a key satellite data stream used in US hurricane forecasting, a group of amateur radi…
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Lees meerComputer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks' The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been pushing for the development of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms since 2016.…
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Lees meerComputer scientist Peter Gutmann tells The Reg why it's 'bollocks' The US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has been pushing for the development of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms since 2016.…
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Lees meerOff-the-charts gravitational waves ripple out from merged dead stars Researchers have observed the largest ever collision between two massive black holes witnessed by humans, a finding that’s sent astrophysicists back to their calculators to re-thin…
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