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July 20, 2012
EARTH OBSERVATION
Why Is Earth So Dry?
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 20, 2012
With large swaths of oceans, rivers that snake for hundreds of miles, and behemoth glaciers near the north and south poles, Earth doesn't seem to have a water shortage. And yet, less than one percent of our planet's mass is locked up in water, and even that may have been delivered by comets and asteroids after Earth's initial formation. Astronomers have been puzzled by Earth's water deficiency. The standard model explaining how the solar system formed from a protoplanetary disk, a swirling disk of ... read more

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EARTH OBSERVATION

GeoEye Signs Two New Seven-Figure GeoEye-1 Imagery Contracts
GeoEye recently signed seven-figure agreements with two international partners in the Middle East and Asia for both the renewal and expanded use of GeoEye imagery products. The Middle East affiliate ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Ambitious ISRO enhancing India's space capabilities
India is boot-strapping its space-based assets to meet the growing demand for enhanced services in communications, broadcasting remote-sensing and navigation, a top space agency official said Monday ... more
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MISSILE NEWS

Lockheed Martin Completes First LRASM Captive Carriage Test
Lockheed Martin's Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) sensor suite recently completed its first flight during a captive carry flight test off the coast of northwest Florida using a modified Sabreli ... more
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AEROSPACE

Russia and Italy to jointly develop patrol aircraft
Russian and Italian engineers will jointly develop a patrol aircraft with extraordinary technical characteristics. Under the project, intellectual systems of communication, navigation and identifica ... more
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UAV NEWS

Researchers demonstrate 'spoofing' of UAVs
A University of Texas at Austin research team successfully demonstrated for the first time that the GPS signals of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone, can be commandeered by an outside sourc ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission Becomes an Observatory
Engineers at Orbital Sciences Corporation, Gilbert, Ariz., have installed the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) instrument back onto to the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft. With both ... more
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WHALES AHOY

Indonesia's 'unique' whale sharks get pet tags
The "unique habit" of whale sharks that converge to feed from fishing nets in Indonesia has allowed them to be tagged with low-cost technology usually used on pets, conservationists said Tuesday. ... more
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Obama to call for nuclear cuts in Berlin speech

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

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GPS NEWS

GMV Leads Satellite Navigation Project In Collaboration With The South African National Space Agency
GMV is leading a major satellite navigation project in collaboration with the South African National Space Agency (SANSA). The project, SBAS Awareness and Training for South Africa (SATSA), wi ... more
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CAR TECH

Calling all truckers ... not!
Researchers in India are developing a new technology that will prevent truck drivers and other road users from using their cell phones while driving. The technology based on RFIDs could also be inte ... more
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RUSSIAN SPACE

Russian Space Firm Suspected of $17 Million Fraud
Russian police have opened a criminal investigation into the alleged misuse of 565 million rubles ($17 million) of state funds set aside for the country's satellite navigation system. The Inte ... more
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MISSILE NEWS

Israeli navy eyes new missile systems
The Israeli navy is looking for new long- and short-range missiles systems to support major ground offensives, senior officers say, a strong indication amphibious operations are being planned for Lebanon, Syria or the Gaza Strip if a new war erupts. ... more
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GPS NEWS

SSTL signs contract with OHB for second batch of Galileo payloads
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) Director of Telecommunications and Navigation, Dr John Paffett, has signed a contract with Dr. Ingo Engeln, Member of the Executive Board of OHB System AG at t ... more
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NUKEWARS

US slaps more sanctions on Iran
The United States unleashed a fresh wave of sanctions against Iran Thursday, ratcheting up pressure to convince Tehran to take seriously concerns about its suspected nuclear weapons program. ... more
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GPS NEWS

Phone app will navigate indoors
A smartphone app using magnetic fluctuations to map indoor locations can guide users where global positioning systems can't penetrate, Finnish researchers say. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

IGARSS 2012 - 'Remote Sensing for a Dynamic Earth'
One of the most important conferences on geoscience and remote sensing will take place at the International Congress Centre in Munich from 22 to 27 July 2012. The International Geoscience and Remote ... more
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Britain 'faces decade of bad weather'

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

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LAUNCH PAD

ILS Proton Launches SES-5 For SES
International Launch Services has successfully carried the SES-5 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit on an ILS Proton for SES of Luxembourg. This was the 21th SES satellite launched on ILS P ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

New eyes in the sky
Until now, scientists who study air pollution using satellite imagery have been limited by weather. Clouds, in particular, provide much less information than a sunny day. University of Iowa scientis ... more
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UAV NEWS

University of Texas at Austin researchers demonstrate first 'spoofing' of UAVs
A University of Texas at Austin research team successfully demonstrated for the first time that the GPS signals of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone, can be commandeered by an outside sourc ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Images in an Instant: Suomi NPP Begins Direct Broadcast
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 s ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

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
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GPS NEWS

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
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GPS NEWS

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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EARTH OBSERVATION

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
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24/7 Energy News Coverage
Polymer-coated catalyst protects "artificial leaf"

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

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GPS NEWS

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
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EARTH OBSERVATION

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
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SOLAR SCIENCE

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
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DEMOCRACY

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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EARTH OBSERVATION

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
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EARTH OBSERVATION

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
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GPS NEWS

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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GPS NEWS

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
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