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June 21, 2012
EARTH OBSERVATION
Soil Moisture Climate Data Record observed from Space
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Jun 21, 2012
The future of the world's climate is determined by various parameters, such as the density of clouds or the mass of the Antarctic ice sheet. One of these crucial climate parameters is soil moisture, which is hard to measure on a global scale. Now, the European Space Agency (ESA), in cooperation with the Vienna University of Technology (Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing) and the Free University of Amsterdam, is presenting a data set, containing global soil moisture data from 1978 to 20 ... read more

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EARTH OBSERVATION

NASA Selects Low Cost, High Science Earth Venture Space System
NASA has selected an ocean wind study proposal led by the University of Michigan from among 19 submitted to the agency's Announcement of Opportunity for small spaceflight investigations of the Earth ... more
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CONSTELLATIONS

DeLorme and Pivotel Partner to Deliver inReach Satellite Communicator in Australasia and Indonesia
DeLorme has announced a partnership with Pivotel Satellite, the leading provider of mobile satellite services in Australia. As a Delorme service partner, Pivotel will deliver the award-winning inRea ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Robotics 101 - With NASA's Chris McQuin + Jaret Matthews
When you hear the word "robot," you might think of Hollywood creations such as the Terminator, C-3PO or Megatron. Thankfully, the reality of current robotics isn't quite that sinister, emotional or ... more
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GPS NEWS

Trial by vacuum brings next Galileo satellites closer to launch
The next two Galileo navigation satellites have now endured the harsh vacuum and temperature extremes of space on the way to their scheduled 28 September launch. The fourth satellite completed 20 da ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Anniversary in space - five years of TerraSAR-X
Five years ago on 15 June 2007, the German TerraSAR-X radar satellite was launched from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This marked the beginning of a new era in satellite remote sensing ... more
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GPS NEWS

Boeing Completes Fifth GPS IIF Satellite for USAF
Boeing has completed the fifth of 12 Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellites the company is building for the U.S. Air Force. The spacecraft was built at the Satellite Development Center in El ... more
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MARSDAILY

ESA tests self-steering rover in 'Mars' desert
ESA assembled a top engineering team then challenged them to devise a way for rovers to navigate on alien planets. Six months later, a fully autonomous vehicle was charting its own course through Ch ... more
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Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program
Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm
Top Chinese gaming companies continue to challenge
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Embedded Educators: Teacher Research Experience in Greenland with Operation IceBridge
In mid-April, scientists working in a remote corner of Greenland on NASA's Operation IceBridge gave five teachers a taste of what airborne polar science is like and in the process provided the educa ... more
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FLORA AND FAUNA

Nepal launches drones to combat poachers
Conservationists in Nepal are to send drone aircraft into the skies in the battle to save the Himalayan nation's endangered tigers and rhinos from poachers. ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Power-generating knee strap hints at end for batteries
Battery-powered devices could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a group of UK researchers who have created a novel energy harvester to power some of the latest wearable gadgets. By strappi ... more
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TECH SPACE

Instrument Integration Begins at Goddard on MMS Spacecraft
The decks have arrived. Engineers working on NASA'S Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission have started integrating instruments on the first of four instrument decks in a newly fabricated cleanroom ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China astronauts enter space module for first time
Three Chinese astronauts on Monday entered an orbiting module for the first time, a key step towards the nation's first space station, in a move broadcast live on China's state television network. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Google launches cultural map of Brazil's Amazon tribe
Google on Saturday unveiled a cultural map of Brazil' Surui indigenous people, a digital tool that will help the Amazonian tribe share their vast knowledge of the forest and fight illegal logging. ... more
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INTERNET SPACE

'Spectrum crunch' may slow US mobile revolution
The United States is bracing for a data crunch from the surging use of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices as the explosion of Internet-ready devices eats up the radio spectrum allocated for mobile broadband. ... more
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GPS NEWS

GPS being used as weather forecast tool
Australian scientists say the global positioning system can make weather forecasting more accurate by providing a new type of temperature observation. ... more
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Solar-driven ionosphere charges may nudge stressed faults toward rupture
Stable black carbon in mangrove soils boosts coastal climate role
Low crystallinity iron minerals show promise for chromium cleanup and carbon storage
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Indra Incorporates Rapideye Satellite Capacity Into Its Earth Observation Service
Indra has signed an agreement making it the only company in Spain to market images from RapidEye's constellation of five satellites. This will strengthen the Earth observation service it provides fo ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Delving inside Earth from space
ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers is running experiments on the International Space Station that are shedding light on conditions deep inside Earth. Orbiting some 400 km above us, Geoflow is offering insi ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Satellite Sees Smoke from Siberian Fires Reach the U.S. Coast
Fires burning in Siberia recently sent smoke across the Pacific Ocean and into the U.S. and Canada. Images of data taken by the nation's newest Earth-observing satellite tracked aerosols from the fi ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

NASA's Ocean Salinity Pathfinder Celebrates its First Year in Orbit
It's been a busy first year in space for Aquarius, NASA's pioneering instrument to measure ocean surface salinity from orbit. Designed to advance our understanding of what changes in the saltiness o ... more
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MILTECH

US Marines fire Excalibur from record range in Afghanistan
The U.S. Marine Corps successfully fired two Raytheon Excalibur 155mm precision-guided artillery projectiles from a range of 36 kilometers (22.3 statute miles) in theater. These shots mark the longe ... more
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GPS NEWS

Apple fends off Android challenge with maps, Siri
Apple said Monday it was revving up the software running its coveted gadgets, training its sights on the China market - and tossing Google Maps aside in the process. ... more
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UAV NEWS

Israel encrypts UAVs as cyberwar widens
Israel's military is expected shortly to take delivery of an advanced model of the Skylark 1 unmanned aerial vehicle that will be equipped with electronic jammers that will block efforts to intercept surveillance data. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

UH research team uses airborne LiDAR to unveil Honduran archaeological ruins
A field team from the University of Houston and the National Science Foundation (NSF) National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping (NCALM) has mapped a remote region of Honduras that may contain the l ... more
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AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners
Ancient guano drove Chincha coastal power
UAH lands first DARPA award for biological sciences department
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WOOD PILE

Teaching tree-thinking through touch
A pair of new studies by computer scientists, biologists, and cognitive psychologists at Harvard, Northwestern, Wellesley, and Tufts suggest that collaborative touch-screen games have value beyond j ... more
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NUKEWARS

South Korean paper hit by major cyber attack
A conservative South Korean newspaper said Monday it had been the victim of a major cyber attack, less than a week after North Korea threatened the paper and other Seoul media over their reports. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Apple unveils maps program, challenging Google
Apple unveiled its own mapping program Monday, challenging Google for the popular software application and opening up a new front in the war with the maker of the Android operating system. ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Obama backs Philippines on sea freedom
The United States and the Philippines on Friday called for freedom of navigation in the tense South China Sea as the White House offered a robust show of support for President Benigno Aquino. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Taking action for GMES
Representatives from the areas of economy, health, energy, agriculture, climate change, disaster management and key decision makers gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark, this week to show their support f ... more
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GPS NEWS

Revamped Google maps goes offline for mobile
Google unveiled a revamped maps program Wednesday that allows mobile users to use the service without an Internet connection as the Internet giant geared up for a possible competing service. ... more
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GPS NEWS

Boeing, Raytheon and Harris to Pursue GPS Control Segment Sustainment Contract
Boeing, Raytheon and Harris Corporation will work together to pursue future development and sustainment work on the Air Force GPS Control Segment Sustainment (GCSS) contract. The control segment is ... more
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NUKEWARS

S. Korea military accuses North of stealing secrets
South Korea's military security chief accused North Korea Thursday of training elite hackers to steal military secrets and stir up public disorder. ... more
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