Electricity is traditionally sent along power lines and into homes at 60 Hz, but this isn’t quite true. After traveling long distances, the standard frequency of 60 Hz increases on one side of ...

Engineers and rocket scientists love data. So no surprise the NASA thrust oscillation mitigation team has been gathering reams of data to best understand how to design an integrated vehicle that ...

NASA's Constellation programme leadership has selected actively 'tuned' mass dampers to solve the Ares I crew launch vehicle's (CLV) first-stage oscillation problem. The damper mass is a spring or ...

HAMPTON, Va. — NASA’s Constellation program office has asked engineers at Langley Research Center here to develop hardware intended to protect astronauts from potentially dangerous levels of ...

WASHINGTON — NASA’s managers have settled on a fix they say will protect astronauts from potentially dangerous levels of vibrations that could otherwise reach the planned Orion Crew Exploration ...