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Worm writers captured

Matt | August 27, 2005 |

Two men, one in Morocco and one in Turkey, have been arrested over the unleashing of a computer worm that affected US firms earlier this month. Moroccan authorities detained Farid Essebar, 18, while Atilla Ekici, 21, was arrested by Turkish authorities on Thursday, the FBI said. They are believed to be responsible for the Zotob […]

End of Nasa ‘Test Mission’?

Matt | August 24, 2005 |

Discovery has been successfully de-mated from Nasa’s specially modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and has now been towed into the Orbiter Processing Facility bay 3 where the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Raffaello, still inside, will be removed from the payload bay and transferred to the Space Station Processing Facility. What is interesting is that Nasa […]

Discovery De-mated

Matt | August 23, 2005 |

Discovery was demated from the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft early Monday morning at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Discovery was towed late Monday afternoon to the nearby Orbiter Processing Facility, where it will be readied for mission STS-121. Matt (Image credit: NASA/KSC) [Technorati tag(s): shuttle, nasa, Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Discovery, Discovery, Space, Science]

Discovery home safe and sound!

Matt | August 21, 2005 |

Within the last few minutes the Space Shuttle Discovery touched down safely at Kenedy Space Center in Florida. Matt (Image credit: NASA/KSC) [Technorati tag(s): shuttle, nasa, Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Discovery, Discovery, Space, Science]

Discovery’s home coming delayed

Matt | August 20, 2005 |

The shuttle Discovery has been delayed as it heads home to Florida’s Kennedy Space Center from Edwards Air Force Base in California. The orbiter is riding piggyback on a modified jumbo jet, more than a week after it landed in the Mojave desert. The pair arrived in Louisana on Friday for an overnight stop, but […]

Discovery heads home

Matt | August 19, 2005 |

Discovery has taken off from Edwards Air Force Base in Cailifornia. The shuttle is piggy-backed on a specially modified Boeing 747-100 Jumbo. The flight will be just 3 hours as the pair have to stop to refuel Altus Air Force Base in Oklahoma and should continue on to Florida over night, weather permitting. Matt (Image […]

Discovery will leave Edwards this morning.

Matt | August 19, 2005 |

The US Space Shuttle Discovery will leave NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California to begin its ferry flight home to Florida at sunrise this morning (about 1300BST). Difficulties with alignment of the aerodynamic tailcone with the aft end of the Space Shuttle Discovery lead to the dealy of […]

No more shuttle launches until March

Matt | August 18, 2005 |

Nasa has announced that the shuttle fleet will remain grounded until March at the earliest, Engineers are searching for a solution that will prevent foam being shed from the external tank and striking the orbiter during launch. Seven members of an oversight panel also say Nasa’s latest shuttle efforts were tainted by some of the […]

Make sure you patch your Windows!

Matt | August 18, 2005 |

A war has broken out between hackers behind viruses that exploit a recently discovered loophole in Windows 2000. The viruses written by the competing hacker groups are fighting it out for supremacy on infected machines. Some of the variants seek out and delete rival viruses they find on machines they manage to penetrate. The slew […]

Discovery due back in Florida on Friday

Matt | August 17, 2005 |

The final preparations for Discovery’s return flight to Florida are underway at Dryden Flight Research Center in California. The orbiter has been attached to one of NASA’s modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft return ferry flight, currently scheduled to depart in the morning Thursday, Aug. 18. The pair could arrive in Florida as early as […]