The Eyes of the Space Shuttle

Roland Piquepaille writes "Now that Discovery astronaut Steve Robinson has successfully removed two pieces of fabric poking out of the shuttle's heat shield, a question remains: how did NASA discover these anomalies in the first place? In this article, Forbes.com writes that NASA can say thank you to a private Canadian company, Neptec, and its Laser Camera system (LCS). Neptec is working with NASA for ten years now, but it was the first time that its vision technology was used for external damage assessment of a shuttle. As NASA says it may cancel some future shuttle flights, Neptec plans to implement its 3-D imaging technology in military situations and on the battlefield. But read more for other details, references and pictures about this imaging technology."

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Hey Roland, GET A JOB

[Anonymous Coward]

and stop ripping off other websites content

Roland - serious request

[Anonymous Coward]

Please, please, PLEASE, editors, stop posting these submissions to the front page, or give them a filterable category so that we can choose not to see them.

You might consider doing the same for all blog-type submissions, or anything that might be construed as an ad (see the "help me port my game" submission from earlier).

Two for Two!

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

Two Roland stories in two days! Slashdot must not be getting enough quality submissions from OTHER people.