* Astronomy

Computer programs that are used to define safety margins for fiery spacecraft re-entries and help detect planets outside our solar system are co-winners of NASA's 2007 Software of the Year Award.
Software engineers at NASA's Ames Research Centre at Moffett Field, California, developed the Data-Parallel Line Relaxation, or DPLR, which is used to analyse and predict the extreme environments human and robotic spacecraft experience during super high-speed entries into planetary atmospheres.

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