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Images in an Instant: Suomi NPP Begins Direct BroadcastGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 10, 2012 Real-time data that will be used in everything from weather forecasts to disaster response is now being beamed down to Earth from a cone-shaped appendage aboard the nation's newest Earth-observing satellite. The High Rate Data (HRD) link is an antenna aboard the Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite that provides 'direct broadcast' data to users in real-time. Researchers world-wide are then able to use customized algorithms, or mathematical formulas, turning raw data into image ... read more |
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 MSG-3 set to ensure quality of Europe's weather service from geostationary orbit The latest weather satellite in Europe's highly successful Meteosat second-generation series is on its way after lifting off on an Ariane 5 at 21:36 GMT (23:36 CEST) on Thursday, 5 July from Europe' ... more | .. |
  Announcement of ACRIDS product line for Precision Airdrop Systems The Dutch SSBV Aerospace and Technology Group (SSBV) has unveiled its ACRIDS product line for Precision Airdrop Systems. ACRIDS, an acronym for Aerial Cargo Rider System, is based on the use a ... more | .. |
 SSTL announces exactView-1 satellite launch date Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is announcing the planned launch of exactView-1, the highest detection performance Automatic Identification System (AIS) satellite ever built, on 22nd July by ... more | .. |
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 Galileo pathfinder GIOVE-A retires Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has put the GIOVE-A satellite into retirement, ending a successful extended mission for the European Commission's Galileo satellite navigation programme under ... more | .. |
 Satellite research reveals smaller volcanoes could cool climate A University of Saskatchewan-led international research team has discovered that aerosols from relatively small volcanic eruptions can be boosted into the high atmosphere by weather systems such as ... more | .. |
 NASA Satellites Examine a Powerful Summer Storm As a powerful summertime storm, known as a derecho, moved from Illinois to the Mid-Atlantic states on June 29, expanding and bringing destruction with it, NASA and other satellites provided a look a ... more | .. |
  Pro-Romney group in $25 mn ad buy on day of jobs report Crossroads GPS has purchased a $25 million ad blitz in nine battleground states to attack President Barack Obama's record on jobs and the debt, the advocacy group supporting Republican Mitt Romney said Friday. ... more |
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 S.Korea to buy European missiles Outside View: America strikes out Time running out for Mideast peace: Blair Ban calls for end to Saddam-era sanctions against Iraq Iran's Rowhani offers softer tone, same policies Russia urges softening of Iran sanctions amid nuclear hope | .. |
  Another M-class Flare from Sunspot 1515 Active Region 1515 has now spit out 12 M-class flares since July 3. Early in the morning of July 5, 2012 there was an M6.1 flare. It peaked at 7:44 AM EDT. This caused a moderate - classified as R2 ... more | .. |
 ESA-China collaboration takes Earth observation to new heights ESA and China have been cooperating through the Dragon Programme since 2004 to encourage the use of Earth observation in China. Building on the success of the past years, the programme is taking on ... more | .. |
 Bottleneck off the Orkney Islands A mere 10 kilometres separate John O'Groats, at the northernmost tip of the Scottish mainland, and South Ronaldsay, in the Orkney Islands. What passengers on the ferries directly experience can also ... more | .. |
 Mission accomplished for Galileo's pathfinder GIOVE-A With the initial satellites of the Galileo constellation working well in orbit, it has been decided to end the mission of ESA's pioneering GIOVE-A navigation satellite. Launched on 28 December 2005, ... more |
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 ESA extends its navigation lab in readiness for Galileo testing With the next Galileo launch approaching, ESA has extended its Radio Navigation Laboratory to meet the testing needs of Europe's own satellite navigation system. Located at ESA's ESTEC technical cen ... more | .. |
 New system navigates without satellites A new positioning system uses the same signals used by mobile phones, TVs, radios and WiFi rather than navigation satellites, its British developer says. ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Commercial GEO Satellites Surpass 1,000 Years in Orbit The Lockheed Martin commercial geostationary (GEO) communications satellite fleet has achieved a significant milestone by accumulating 1,000 years of in-orbit operations. JCSAT-13, built for SKY Per ... more | .. |
 Test: Drones' GPS navigation can be hacked Researchers at the University of Texas say they've demonstrated the Global Positioning System signals of unmanned aerial vehicles can be hacked. ... more |
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 WIN-T Increment 1 Enables National Guard to Restore Vital Network Communications Following a Disaster Pesticides significantly reduce biodiversity in aquatic environments NOAA, partners predict possible record-setting deadzone for Gulf of Mexico Jet stream changes cause climatically exceptional Greenland Ice Sheet melt Computer modeling technique goes viral Submarine springs reveal how coral reefs respond to ocean acidification | .. |
  Haigh-Farr Supports SpaceX in First Docking of the Dragon Capsule to ISS Haigh-Farr congratulates Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) on its third successful launch of the Falcon 9 Rocket, the second flight of the Dragon spacecraft and the first docking of Dragon to ... more | .. |
 Arianespace to launch DZZ-HR high-resolution observation satellite Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Jean Dauphin, Director Earth Observation Navigation and Science - Astrium France, announced that they have signed the launch service and solut ... more | .. |
 Delving Inside Earth from Space European Space Agency, or ESA, astronaut Andre Kuipers is running experiments on the International Space Station that are shedding light on conditions deep inside Earth. Orbiting some 248 miles (400 ... more | .. |
 China to invest in Earth monitoring system China says it will invest $81 million to build a national network to monitor movement in the Earth's crust and for other Earth sciences in the next four years. ... more |
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  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 | .. |
 Earth observation for us and our planet 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 sustainab ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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 Printing Tiny Batteries An innovative material for the green Earth Working backward: Computer-aided design of zeolite templates Qatar comes to rescue of Germany's Solarworld Intelligent glasses designed for professors India's Energy Ties with Iran Unsettle Washington | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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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