It also let them make their first key hires — a former space technology engineer and a former senior vice president of sports marketing at NBC. Luke Heron is the CEO and co-founder of TestCard, a company that combines smartphone technology and traditional snail mail to deliver a medical test experience in the privacy of the home.
Today, space technology has lost its luster for young engineers, who are drawn increasingly to companies like Google and Apple.
In Bangalore, the headquarters of the space effort, offices brim with optimism reminiscent of NASA during its golden age in the 1960's, as Indian engineers breathlessly describe how they use space technology to improve the lives of tens of millions of average Indians.
Not space technology per se but that generation of scientists and engineers who brought an unprecedented intellectual energy and excitement to peacetime pursuits.
Readership: researchers, teachers and graduate students in space physics, astronomy, geomagnetism, space technology, electric power and communication technology, and non-specialist physicists and engineers.
His father, a mechanical engineer, retired from the department of satellites and space technology at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J., and was an adjunct professor of aerospace engineering at the Federal Polytechnical Institute in Zurich.
Xie Mingbao, a chief engineer with the Chinese manned space program, acknowledged at the news conference that China still lagged behind the United States and Russia in space technology, and said China would like to "cooperate with any other country" in sharing and developing such technology.
The balloon will be grounded until engineers figure out what went wrong, and Zephyr 3 will now be looking for other opportunities to get aloft, says Alan Haskell, director for space technology at QinetiQ.
space technology research vehicle.
"The country has a long and well-defined road map of its space programme and embodies the vision to use space technology for the benefit of the Nigerian people both by providing information to help manage the country and by providing a focus for the training of engineers and scientists".
