Tag: Endeavour
California fire company helps protect retired space shuttle
May 28, 2013Tess Nacelewicz
BREA, Calif.—Cosco Fire Protection, based here, has completed a unique project: installing an expanded fire alarm system that protects the newly retired space shuttle Endeavour.“It was an exciting project to be involved with due to the public response to the shuttle arrival and all the attention it received,” Cosco senior sales engineer Clinton Jass told Security Systems News in an email interview.The California Science Center in Los Angeles has been expanded to include the Samuel...
LAPD to deploy Axis IP cameras for Endeavour transport
October 11, 2012SSN Staff
CHELMSFORD, Mass.—The Los Angeles Police Department will rely on IP video surveillance cameras from Axis Communications to safeguard the space shuttle Endeavour's final journey, a 12-mile ground transport to the California Science Center, where the shuttle will dock a final time.
The HDTV-quality pan/tilt/zoom cameras will be deployed using a “leap-frog” strategy, whereby cameras are uninstalled and reinstalled in new positions as the shuttle proceeds on its course. Video will be...