Harris Corporation Helps Tallahassee Team Compete in the Florida Astronaut Challenge Finals

Trent Walker and Justin Golabek simulate the landing of a Space Shuttle at Kennedy Space Center as part of the Student Astronaut Challenge at the KSC Visitors Center Feb. 16. The students were part of a team from St. John Paul II Catholic High School in Tallahassee, Florida, which was sponsored by Harris Corporation. The team was among 15 finalists to take part in the high school division of the competition that promotes Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics education.

This space radio could help track every flight in real time

Washington, Jan 30 – Researchers have developed a reconfigurable radio that could help air traffic controllers see in real-time the location of every plane in the air — even those flying across oceans. To design and develop the new reconfigurable, higher-bandwidth radio, NASA worked with Palm Bay, Florida-based Harris Corporation.