NASA ScienceCasts: Cosmic Bow Shocks
Check out the latest effort from our Animation Team for NASA’ Science Mission Directorate.
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Serverless Optical Character Recognition in Support of NASA Astronaut Safety
Chris Shenton, CTO, V!Studios The NASA Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Office at NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) needed to be able to search and make decisions based upon a huge volume of spacesuit safety and test documentation, many of which were only available as scans of paper reports. Timeliness was critical, especially in the event of…
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ScienceCasts: An Out of This World Research Lab
The International Space Station is more than just a bright light in the night sky. It is also an out-of-this-world research laboratory. ISS: www.nasa.gov/station
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Automatic Swarm of Ephemeral Servers Extract Text to Improve NASA Astronaut Safety
V! Studios develops high volume solution for extracting text from scanned documents faster and cheaper for NASA’s Johnson Space Center by utilizing Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda serverless technology. V! Studios, a creative technologies company, has developed a new high-speed, low-cost cloud-based solution for optical character recognition (OCR) and text extraction. Standard OCR software extracts…
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Accessing NASA Digital Media Now Easier With New Library Search Engine
TYSONS, VA (PRWEB) MARCH 28, 2017 By leveraging cloud computing and storage capabilities, V! Studios developed a highly scalable, cost efficient multimedia library for NASA at images.nasa.gov, which officially launched to the public on March 28, 2017. NASA, like many other government agencies, is challenged with compiling, archiving, and retrieving massive amounts of digitized content. Prior to this…
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ScienceCasts: NASA Embraces Small Satellites
NASA is embracing small satellite designs, from tiny CubeSats to micro-satellites. These miniature marvels are providing many ways to collect science data and to demonstrate new technologies.
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Design Patterns for Serverless, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3
Motivation We’ve been using AWS load balancers with autoscaling instances for years now and it’s great at handling load, but it’s quite a bit of infrastructure to manage (even with Troposphere + CloudFormation). We also have to manage all the data flow, queue processing and such ourselves: multiple SQS queues, EC2 polling, recording state in databases… More…
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Official Release: NASA ScienceCasts Series Surpasses Milestone Episode
TYSONS, VA (PRWEB) JANUARY 31, 2017 Working with the Science Mission Directorate and ISS Program Science Office at NASA, V! Studios has completed over 225 episodes of the critically acclaimed ScienceCasts series. As stated on the official ScienceAtNASA YouTube page, “ScienceCasts are short videos about fun, interesting, and unusual science topics encountered by NASA’s Science Missions.” The ScienceCasts video series provides NASA the…
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ScienceCasts: Milestones In Review
A special ScienceCast, Milestones In Review is now live! This episode takes a look back at the last 230+ episodes of ScienceCasts and highlights some of the most popular episodes in each science category as identified by viewers and followers of the series. V! Studios is extremely proud of being part of the ScienceCast series…
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ScienceCasts: New Year’s Fireworks from a Shattered Comet
The V! Studios animation team once again comes together to produce another Sciencecast for NASA. This Sciencecast details how Earth will pass through a stream of debris from comet 2003 EH1 on January 3, 2017, producing a shower of meteors known as the Quadrantids.