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Submission + - SpaceX Signs Lease Agreement with Air Force for Landing Pad (spacenews.com)

Submitted by PaisteUser on Thursday February 12, 2015 @09:55AM

PaisteUser writes: Space News reports that SpaceX signs a historic agreement to allow construction of a landing pad for Falcon 9 booster stages.

From the article: "The U.S. Air Force announced Feb. 10 that SpaceX has signed a five-year lease for Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 13, which was used to launch Atlas rockets and missiles between 1956 and 1978. In its new role, it will serve as a landing pad for Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy booster cores launched from Florida, the Air Force said. Financial terms of the lease were not disclosed."

Patrick Air Force Base also provides the documentation used for the environmental impact study which details out how the landing pad will be constructed:
http://www.patrick.af.mil/shar...

Submission + - NASA Orion Capsule Succesfully Lifts off from Florida Space Coast (nbcnews.com)

Submitted by PaisteUser on Friday December 05, 2014 @09:10AM

PaisteUser writes: NBC News writes: America's most powerful rocket launched a robotic test version of NASA's Orion deep-space capsule on its first flight on Friday, a day after a series of snags forced a scrub of the first attempt. The United Launch Alliance Delta 4 Heavy rocket's liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station had to be postponed on Thursday — at first due to gusty winds, and later due to a balky fuel valve. But on Friday, no technical issues or weather snags got in the way of an on-time 7:05 a.m. ET launch, even though the clouds were thick over Florida's Space Coast.

"Liftoff at dawn! The dawn of Orion, for a new era of American space exploration!" launch commentator Mike Curie said as the rocket blasted through the clouds just after sunrise.

Article include a live feed from the NASA TV channel, NTV-1.

Submission + - New U.S. Atmoic Clock Goes Live (cnn.com)

Submitted by PaisteUser on Thursday April 03, 2014 @04:39PM

PaisteUser writes: CNN writes: "A new atomic clock, so accurate it will lose or gain only one second every 300 million years, was unveiled Thursday by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a branch of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

The NIST-F2 had been in development for about a decade and is three times more accurate than the F1, which has been in use since 1999. The institute will continue operating both clocks for now at its campus in Boulder, Colorado."

Submission + - Nvidia Drivers causing 30% of Vista Crashes in '07 (arstechnica.com)

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PaisteUser

on Thursday March 27, 2008 @10:25PM

PaisteUser writes: "The guys over at Ars Technica posted an article discussing how an estimated 30% of Vista crashes in 2007 were caused by Nvidia Drivers. From the article, "According to Microsoft's own included documentation, the widespread reports of NVIDIA Vista driver issues were by no means exaggerated during Vista's first months.""

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