Month: August 2006

Mark Psiaki, left, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, hooks up an experimental GPS/Galileo digital storage receiver and patch antenna with the assistance of graduate students Todd Humphreys, center, and Shan Mohiuddin in Rhodes Hall. by Staff WritersIthaca NY (SPX) Jul 19, 2006Members of Cornell’s Global Positioning System Laboratory have cracked the so-called pseudo random … Read more

New Horizons Crosses The Asteroid Belt New Horizons has entered the main asteroid belt and will be traversing this part of our solar system through August. May, like April, was a busy month for New Horizons’ instrument payload commissioning. In particular, our instruments LORRI, PEPSSI, Alice and Ralph all continued their in in-flight checkouts.In addition, … Read more