Archive for January 2010
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Hayabusa Returns
Hayabusa (Falcon), the little engine that could in space, is on the way back from the asteroid belt. Nov 3, 2005 Japan’s Hayabusa Closes in on Asteroid Landing Site – [space.com] Stunning imagery is being returned by Japan’s Hayabusa space probe as it draws closer to its celestial target: asteroid Itokawa. Now just a few [...]
FIPS Validated Encryption
FIPS 140-2 is the current (soon to be revised to FIPS 140-3) NIST encryption standard for government agencies protecting sensitive but unclassified information. NIST operates a Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) that offers testing of encryption (cryptographic modules) in products to ensure they are compliant with the FIPS standard. This testing involves not only which [...]
T Pyxidis
T Pyxidis is a binary star system just over 3,000 light years from us. The two stars in the system are a sun-like star and a white dwarf star. The strong gravity of the dwarf star draws material from it’s neighbor that periodically cause it to go “nova” or explode (at least partially). Historically, this [...]
