Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Sphere Droids Delivered

[Star Wars, NASA, ISS, droids]

"Cue the John Williams theme and roll the vanishing intro - Obi-Wan
Kenobi's Jedi-training droids have arrived on the International Space
Station (ISS).

"Or at least David Miller's versions have arrived. The free-floating
spheres are set to test new concepts for "smart" satellites. Able to
fly in precision formation, the robots may one day hold the key to
building everything from huge space telescopes that can peer deeply
into the universe to constellations of small, cheap satellites that
can monitor changes on Earth."

[...]

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0711/p03s04-usgn.html

Anna Nicole is still awaiting *her* call from NASA.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

these are not the spheres you're looking for

2:30 PM  

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