A new company is looking to launch spacecraft to mine asteroids and one day act as an outer space gas station and an oasis for human colonies in space. Deep Space Industries Inc. announced Tuesday that it hopes to launch a fleet of small ...
Tags: Space Prospectors, human colonies, near-Earth asteroids
The insurance industry is looking at the possible effects of space weather on the world’s electronic systems. The issue arises, say the insurers, because space weather goes in 11 year cycles and severe events are expected in early ...
Got a smartphone or satnav but still can't get a fix on where you are?A new positioning system could compete with GPS to make sure you never lose your bearings again. Instead of satellites,Locata uses ground-based equipment to project a ...
Tags: Locata positioning technology, GPS, cellphone, New Mexico
According to P. Sunderarajan writing in The Hindu, work on the world’s largest solar telescope is likely to commence in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir in India by the end of 2013. The telescope, with an aperture of 2 metres ...
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LAS VEGAS, NV(BRAIN) — Garmin is introducing a variety of new products, including at least two new cycling computers, at this week's massive Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The new Edge 810 and Edge 510 and Garmin Connect ...
Tags: Cycling Computers, CES, smart phone, Cycling
The FCC is making it easier to launch in-flight Internet services on planes in the U.S. by setting up a standard approval process for onboard systems that use satellites. Since 2001, the Federal Communications Commission has approved some ...
Tags: FCC, in flight Internet services, planes, U.S.
IDG News Service-Is Sprint preparing a bid for prepaid wireless carrier MetroPCS?Whatever the rumors and whatever the company's plans,its chief financial officer didn't offer any clues when speaking Wednesday morning at a conference in ...
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Based in Surrey, Optical Surfaces manufactures precision optical components for imaging, laser manipulation and other purposes. Satellites including BNSC's Top Sat, the NASA swift explorer as well as ESA's XMM and NigeriaSAT-2 have ...
Tags: UK Firm, Optical Surfaces, Precision Optics, Imagers and Lasers
Computerworld - The problem: You want to send images into space and you want them to last 5 billion years. The solution: A gold-plated disc. That's the idea behind The Last Pictures project, which is scheduled to blast off in the next few ...
Tags: gold plated, orbit, silicon disc, communications satellite
Launch of daily satellites means poker players could yet earn their seats at the Sky Poker Tour Grand Final in September. Online poker giants, Sky Poker have launched three daily satellites, giving top poker players from across the ...
Intertops Poker is adding a $500 Freeroll $1500 GTD poker tournament this weekend. The weekly $110,000 GTD and $80,000 GTD Super Stack will take place on Sunday as usual and the final British Poker Open qualifier is also this Sunday. ...
SES TechCom is to supply four antenna systems to HITEC Luxembourg for European space data highway. HITEC Luxembourg S.A., the Luxembourg based engineering and technology company has announced it has been selected for provisioning four ...
Tags: HITEC Luxembourg, Computer Products, SES TechCom, Procurement Contract
Why have satellite makers and astronomers beaten a path across Essex? To get to the best image sensors in the world, probably. E2V not only made the CheMin and ChemCam image sensors within NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, it is also the ...
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SES has announced that its 51st SES spacecraft is in orbit after successful ILS Proton launch, providing fresh satellite capacity in multiple frequency bands to Europe, Africa and the Middle East. BETZDORF, LUXEMBOURG, July 13, 2012 ...
Tags: SES 5, Computer Products, Satellite Capacity, Frequency Bands
BAE Systems has developed technology it claims could replace GPS for creating location data. Named "Navigation via Signals of Opportunity" (Navsop), the technology uses existing signals from radio, TV, mobile and Wi-Fi to pinpoint ...
Tags: BAE Systems, GPS, Navsop, GPS positioning devices