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June 26, 2012
EARTH OBSERVATION
Earth observation for us and our planet
Paris (ESA) Jun 25, 2012
The Rio+20 summit on promoting jobs, clean energy and a more sustainable use of our planet's resources closed after three days of talks. During the summit, the role of Earth observation in sustainable development was highlighted. In 1992, a blueprint to rethink economic growth, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection was adopted at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Now, 20 years later, the Rio+20 Summit brought participants from governments, the private sector, non-gov ... read more

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MICROSAT BLITZ

SwRI Building Eight NASA Nanosatellites to Help Predict Extreme Weather Events on Earth
NASA has selected a team including Southwest Research Institute to develop the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS), which will provide better prediction capabilities for extreme weat ... 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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EARTH OBSERVATION

Teledyne to Develop Space-Based Digital Imaging Capability
Teledyne Technologies has been awarded a Cooperative Agreement by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to foster the commercial utilization of the International Space Station. ... more
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CONSTELLATIONS

DeLorme Releases New Features For inReach Two-Way Global Satellite Communicator
DeLorme, the innovation leader in personal satellite messaging, tracking and navigation technology, has announced the release of a major upgrade for inReach two-way satellite communicators. inReach ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Soil Moisture Climate Data Record observed from Space
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, ... 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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Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
'Israel wants to keep Assad in power'

Syria's jihadists have edge, control oil

Commentary: Israel: Crises 360 degrees

Tunisia teeters as it grapples with jihadists

Unspent billions of Chilean defense fund remain a mystery

N. Korea 'special envoy' in China meeting

Iran expanding nuclear activities: IAEA

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EARTH OBSERVATION

Satellites show less pollution from deforestation
Satellite data has shown that harmful carbon emissions from forest loss around the world may be up to 70 percent less than prior estimates, US researchers said Thursday. ... 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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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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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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New discovery of ancient diet shatters conventional ideas of how agriculture emerged

Why we need to put the fish back into fisheries

Heat-related deaths in Manhattan projected to rise

Climate change may have little impact on tropical lizards

LLNL scientist finds topography of Eastern Seaboard muddles ancient sea level changes

Parasitic wasps use calcium pump to block fruit fly immunity

Storm shelters few in 'Tornado Alley'

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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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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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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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24/7 Energy News Coverage
Australia's resources boom over?

Israeli gas finds secure its self sufficiency

EU leaders face up to shale challenge

Chinese PM pledges stronger partnership with Pakistan

Computational tool translates complex data into simplified 2-dimensional images

Robots learn to take a proper handoff by following digitized human examples

Frigid Heat: How Ice can Menace a Hot Engine

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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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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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