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Source: Christian Davenport, Washington Post CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Elon Musk’s SpaceX moved Sunday to within months of restoring NASA’s ability to launch people into space, successfully completing a key test of the emergency abort system of the spacecraft it is developing to fly NASA’s astronauts. NASA has been unable to send humans to space since the Space Shuttle was retired in 2011, but with SpaceX’s test, the agency said...Continue Reading

• Wolf Cukier, 17 discovered the planet – named TOI 1338b – during his summer internship at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland • The teen was working with NASA’s alien-hunting space telescope TESS when he made the discovery • Cukier has now appeared on CNBC, ABC’s Strahan, Sara and Keke and has been profiled in The New York Times • The die-hard Star Wars fan is a...Continue Reading

In the future decision-making will involve a creative mix of data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), with the added input of human judgment. The result is augmented intelligence – where the analytical power and speed of AI takes over the majority of data processing, guiding human employees to make more agile and smarter decisions. Augmented intelligence is defined as a design pattern for a human-centered partnership model of people and...Continue Reading

After great uncertainty this past year about federal support for the University’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE), the final FY 2019 Energy and Water bill that was just passed by the U.S. Congress includes $80 million for the LLE, a $5 million increase over FY 2018 and the highest level of federal funding ever appropriated to the LLE in the University’s history. The President is expected to sign this bill...Continue Reading

New Data on Laser-Plasma Instabilities Could Improve Predictive Models for Fusion Experiments ROCHESTER, N.Y., Dec. 3, 2019 — New research from the University of Rochester could lead to more accurate computer models for simulations of laser-driven implosions. Researchers at the the university’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE), along with their colleagues at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, have demonstrated how laser beams modify...Continue Reading

Profiles of Kodak’s progeny Source: KENT GARDNER | Rochester Beacon Last week I posted an overview of Kodak’s enduring legacy in the Rochester economy, particularly as reflected in firms still active in the region with some kind of Kodak connection. I found that about 8,500 Rochester-area residents currently work for one of these firms (including 1,350 still employed by Kodak). My list includes companies that once were part of Kodak...Continue Reading

PRESENTED AT 2019 ANNUAL MEETING, November 19th Rochester Museum and Science Center Strasenburgh Planetarium ROCHESTER, NY, November 20, 2019 – The Rochester Regional Photonics Cluster / New York Photonics has honored five leaders in education and business for their contributions to New York’s Optics and Photonics Industry. RRPC Executive Director Tom Battley presented the awards before stakeholders from industry, government and education from across the region at the New York...Continue Reading

For nearly 20 years, D3 Engineering has been designing electronics, developing software, and creating products globally for companies in transportation, industrial, defense and medical markets.  Their systems are used in many applications including industrial machines, robotics, autonomous vehicles, high performance cameras and medical devices. D3 not only designs systems for customers, but they can also perform validation testing, transition it to production, and supply the final product for its clients....Continue Reading

Rochester, N.Y., November 5, 2019 – Applied Image Inc. is pleased to announce that our Rochester, NY based calibration laboratory has been approved for ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation from ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) for demonstrating technical competence in the field of CALIBRATION. The scope of accreditation applies to activities related to Length–Dimensional Metrology, and Photometry and Radiometry. ISO/IEC 17025:2017 is the single-most important internationally accepted standard for test and calibration...Continue Reading

Source:www.aerotechnews.com At Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope successfully validated its ability to perform key deployments for the first time since its post environmental testing of the Spacecraft Element and integration of the SCE and Optical Telescope Element/Integrated Science Instrument Module. “The Northrop Grumman and NASA team has further validated that the James Webb Space Telescope can communicate and deploy as we have rehearsed in simulations,...Continue Reading