NASA Skymorph API CHallenge
spaceappschallenge.org
on 03/22/2013
Excerpt: SkyMorph provides access to optical images and catalogs generated by the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program. It provides access to imagery by time and position or searching by specific asteroid or other moving object. The time dimension, unique to SkyMorph, allows users to discover changes in the intensities of stars, e. g. supernovae, or to discover moving objects, e. g. comets. Challenge Description
Develop an API that could enable developers and citizen scientists to programmatically access SkyMorph imagery using a RESTful interface. This would enable bulk querying as well as a variety of interesting possibilities around improving access to data.... read the full post.
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NASA signs $40 million web services contract - Nextgov.com
www.nextgov.com
on 12/22/2012
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Amazon Web Services Blog: NASA Saves nearly $1M Per Year By Using AWS
aws.typepad.com
on 06/11/2012
Excerpt: Linda Cureton, the CIO of NASA wrote a blog post to detail some of the IT reforms that are being put in to place to better serve NASA's mission and the American people. NASA has been an advocate and user of cloud and shared services for the last couple of years. In her post (IT Reform at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration), Linda noted that NASA has moved many applications to AWS, with calculable cost savings:
NASA shifted to a new web services model that uses Amazon Web Services for cloud-based enterprise infrastructure.... read the full post.
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