NASA Ames Research Center and Google have signed a Space Act Agreement to work on technical problems such as large-scale data management and distributed computing.


NASA Ames Research Center and Google have signed a Space Act Agreement to work on technical problems such as large-scale data management and distributed computing.

NASA – Google Partnership

– Google and Ames will focus on using the NASA’s information available on the Internet

– Google will explore real-time weather visualization and forecasting, real-time tracking of the International Space Station.

Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google, said: “Partnering with NASA made perfect sense for Google, as it has a wealth of technical expertise and data that will be of great use to Google as we look to tackle many computing issues on behalf of our users,

We’re pleased to move forward to collaborate on a variety of technical challenges through the signing of the Space Act Agreement”. [source]

NASA – Google Partnership – Future

“NASA and Google intend to collaborate in a variety of areas, including incorporating agency data sets in Google Earth, focusing on user studies and cognitive modeling for human computer interaction, and science data search utilizing a variety of Google features and products.” [source]

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