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Quantum Leap for encryption

The topic of data security is finding its way into mainstream media news reports these days, often due to high-profile lapses or breaches; and whilst encryption is sometimes...

15 years 9 months ago

Forty Years of the Boeing 747

Today, it’s exactly forty years since the first flight of the Boeing 747 . ( Photo: Flight Global ). This significant milestone was discussed on the BBC Radio 4 business programme...

15 years 9 months ago

South African A&D Seminars

Tomorrow, I will be traveling to South Africa to present at the Wind River Aerospace & Defence Seminars which will be held in Pretoria and Cape Town next week. I’m really looking...

15 years 9 months ago

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas; Snow in Mars' Atmosphere

In The Guardian, Ian Sample has a very nice article about how baby steps of exploration and scientific inquiry are making subtle, gigantic changes to our understanding of our place...

15 years 9 months ago

Security and cyber warfare

One of the Christmas presents I received was the book The Edge of Madness by Michael Dobbs. It's a novel about cyber warfare and is set in the present day. Despite mixed reviews of...

15 years 10 months ago

An Engineer's perspective looking back: 5 years [continued]

[continued from here ] As far as anyone expected, at Launch Day we were already over the longest part of the mission – development and testing. We'd spent 3 years doing our parts...

15 years 10 months ago

Five Years - an engineer's perspective looking back

Back in 1994, a few of us at WRS had the pleasure of working with JPL on a mission based on a radical new concept: using Commercial Off-The-Shell (COTS) products to build a...

15 years 10 months ago

Five Years

Five Years. It doesn't seem like much. About 1/20th of a long human life span. 20 times 90 days. The amount of time it takes (roughly) from birth until entering school/pre-school...

15 years 10 months ago

Military case study: VxWorks powers Thales' Astute-Class submarine periscope

The Astute nuclear-powered submarine is designed to patrol the world's oceans without being detected by surface ships and other submarines. The Astute deploys a number of...

15 years 11 months ago

The Space Flight Software '08 workshop

The Space Flight Software '08 workshop in Maryland was really nice. It was a great chance to meet several folks I've worked with over the last few decades, mostly as voices over...