Launching from the Kennedy Space Centre last Wednesday, a Delta 2 rocket fired the telescope to its destination in an impressive 90 minutes. Costing $690m the telescope will pick up where its predecessor, the Energetic Gamma-ray Experiment Telescope, or EGRET, left off eight years ago. The GLAST is much faster that the previous model – scanning the entire universe in three hours, compared to EGRET’s 15 months.

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Google co-founder Sergey Brin was clearly not satisfied with just looking at the earth via satellite as the millionaire has put done a $5m deposit on a flight to space, through a new program called Space Adventures.
 
Brin is the first person to reserve a spot, leaving 5 places available in Space Adventures’ new Orbital Mission […]

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IBM has designed a new $100m supercomputer named “Roadrunner”, that is powerful enough to operate at 1 petaflop – that’s 1 thousand trillion calculations a second (beat that Vorderman).  The system is twice as fast as the next closest super computer – the IBM Blue Gene system - and nearly three times as fast as […]

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While the use of satellites has become something of an everyday event these days, it appears that what for years has been one of the more reliable areas of new technology is about to come crashing down to earth – quite literally!
Apparently a US spy satellite “the size of a bus” has lost power during […]

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