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Thu, 17 May 2012 06:48:34 GMT
An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station early Thursday, kicking off a four-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory.
Wed, 16 May 2012 10:05:06 GMT
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Astronomers are taking a long, deep look at one of the best-known galaxies beyond our own Milky Way, to learn more about what happened when it gobbled up another agglomeration of stars that got too close.
Wed, 16 May 2012 23:54:35 GMT
A small, faint asteroid will be coming into view this week, and lucky skywatchers with the right tools could catch a glimpse of the space rock.
Thu, 17 May 2012 00:14:04 GMT
Students' science experiments are about to make history, launching to space on the first attempt by a U.S. commercial company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station.
Wed, 16 May 2012 17:47:30 GMT
Stars like our sun can release "superflares," explosions of up to 10,000 times more energy than the solar flares seen from our sun, researchers say.
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Technical Author-expansion of Development/Test System Ops Guide
Job Description
Their datacentre operates world-wide computing networks using data processing software pipelines of automatic & interactive applications (mostly C, but including Fortran, Java, Shell scripts, Perl etc). Most are scientific, relying on numerical analysis methods, Oracle 9.2 data stores, & communicating processes (including Tuxedo 8.0). Currently the platform is Solaris 9 hosts with Netscape Enterprise Server 3.6 & X/Motif GUI, but will be ported to Linux over the next few years. Change/Configuration management uses Rational/IBM ClearQuest & Clearcase 2002.
A skilled Technical Author is required to extend the Development/Test System Operators Guide (currently covering SHI software systems) to include operation of Radionuclide (RN) & Atmospheric Transport software processing systems. Working closely with Commission staff, you will describe/enhance descriptions, directory structure, operations overviews (including differences from Operational & Testbed systems), routine operational & monitoring tasks, typical problems & solutions, & interdependencies between the ATM, RN & SHI subsystems.
This role will be half-time, & can be either based onsite in Vienna or off-site
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Twickenham
United Kingdom
TW1 3JF
