Want to be a part of International Space Station research Here's your chance. NASA is offering opportunities for academia, industry and government agencies to develop and carry out research and technology demonstrations on the space station ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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The Mars Science Laboratory space-probe successfully delivered the Curiosity rover onto the surface of Mars as scheduled on August 6th 2012, and all being well the exploration vehicle will soon be about its business. Curiosity's agenda ...
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Four UK youths acting in the name of activist hacking collective Anonymous cost PayPal £3.5m as a result of cyber attacks carried out 2010 and 2011, a court has heard. The distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks were carried ...
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The Mars Curiosity Rover, a robot sent to Mars by Nasa principally to investigate the possibility of extra-terrestrial life on the planet, uses many technologies which will be familiar to those in the tech industry. It landed in a crater ...
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Help Return the Moon to Orbit in the Independently Developed Mobile Game Paper Galaxy PASADENA, CA, December 21, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The moon is lost in space! Only 4.5 billion years old, Luna is going to need lots of help to make ...
Tags: Game Paper Galaxy, Game, satellites, iOS device, Android device
NASA's planning a test to replace fluorescent lighting panels in the ISS with a solid-state LED lighting module which produces blue, white, or reddish light depending on the time. It hopes that this change will serve as a counter-measure ...
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully blasted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Sunday night, marking a new chapter in America's space program. The rocket, carrying the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, lifted off at 8:35 p.m. ...
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Given the significant expense involved in manufacturing, launching, and maintaining satellites, their manufacturers are continually investigating ways to reduce damage to these expensive devices. As part of one such effort, TREK, Inc., a ...
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An experimental GPS receiver, built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), has successfully achieved a GPS position fix at 23,300 km altitude – the first position fix above the GPS constellation on a civilian satellite. The ...
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Speech by the Chairman of the Autonomous Region Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR), situated in the northern border area of China, possesses unique regional advantage and consummate infrastructure. With abundant resources it enjoys ...
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e2v sensor returns high-res satellite images 08 Oct 2012 a NAOMIa camera on board SPOT-6 satellite launched last month is based around a high-performance CCD chip. NAOMI camera SPOT-6,the new Earth observation satellite launched in ...
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Times of India reported that mocking the French Government for asking ArcelorMittal to leave France, London Mayor Mr Boris Johnson on Tuesday said "Sans-culottes (working class militants) appear to have captured Paris." The London Mayor ...
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Norwegian manufacturer of jams and ready meal products Stabburet is all set to re-launch its Nora’s Homemade jam featuring Orbit Closure from Crown Food Europe – Cans and Closures, a business unit of Crown Holdings. The Orbit ...
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