Instead, they made their calculations with the aid of a reticle, a sighting device that projects a bull's-eye onto the command pilot's window.
After sighting a landmark on earth with the reticle marked on the porthole, he aims and fires the retrorocket for 100 seconds, thus braking the lifeboat to a de-orbiting speed of .
PlayJam Sticks It To The Video Game Giants Editor’s note: Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research and blogs at Techspressive. It’s been six months since PlayJam ’s GameStick started its off-again, on-again Kickstarter campaign that netted it nearly $650,000 -- well beyond its $100,000 goal. While it attracted less than a tenth of the funds that its predecessor OUYA nabbed for its Android-based home game console, things have ...
June 9, 2013 - TechCrunch