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March 03, 2013

NASA Deciphering the Mysterious Math of the Solar Wind
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 27, 2013
Many areas of scientific research - Earth's weather, ocean currents, the outpouring of magnetic energy from the sun - require mapping out the large scale features of a complex system and its intricate details simultaneously. Describing such systems accurately, relies on numerous kinds of input, beginning with observations of the system, incorporating mathematical equations to approximate those observations, running computer simulations to attempt to replicate observations, and cycling back throu ... read more

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NASA's Aquarius Sees Salty Shifts The colorful images chronicle the seasonal stirrings of our salty world: Pulses of freshwater gush from the Amazon River's mouth; an invisible seam divides the salty Arabian Sea from the fresher wat ... more		SMOS: the global success story continues ESA's water mission is shedding new light on the meandering Gulf Stream, just one of the SMOS satellite's numerous achievements. Launched in 2009, ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite ha ... more		Vietnam to launch third satellite into orbit Vietnam will launch its third satellite into orbit in the second quarter of 2013, according to a document approved by the Vietnamese Government Office. Vietnamese media VnExpress quoted Bui Tr ... more
				NASA Selects Launch Services for ICESat-2 Mission NASA's Launch Services Program at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has selected United Launch Services, LLC of Englewood, Colo., to provide Delta II launch services for the Ice, Cloud an ... more		Indian women use smartphones to 'pin the creeps' With virtual bodyguards, panic buttons and maps to pinpoint harassment blackspots, women in urban India are using their smartphones for protection after a notorious gang-rape in New Delhi. ... more

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Northrop Grumman Delivers First Communications Payload for USAF's Enhanced Polar System Northrop Grumman has delivered the first of two protected communications payloads for the U.S. Air Force's Enhanced Polar System (EPS) that will provide continuous coverage in the north polar region ... more		Promising New Technique for Probing Earth's Deep Interior researchers at Amherst College in Massachusetts and the University of Texas at Austin have described a new technique based in particle physics that might one day reveal, in more detail than ever bef ... more		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		New approach alters malaria maps Identifying areas of malarial infection risk depends more on daily temperature variation than on the average monthly temperatures, according to a team of researchers, who believe that their results ... more
				Raytheon's new precision artillery ready for low-rate initial production Raytheon has received a U.S. Army fiscal year 2012 contract for the production of Excalibur Increment Ib precision-guided projectiles. The $56.6 million contract, awarded in December, marks the star ... more		Mobile apps reshape urban taxi landscape Before the smartphone, riders summoned a taxi by waving an arm or calling a dispatcher - but mobile apps are changing that, helping both drivers and passengers. ... more

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USAF Awards Lockheed Martin Contracts to Begin Work on Next Set of GPS III Satellites The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin two fixed-price contracts totaling $120 million to procure long lead parts for the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth next generation Global Positioning ... more		Tiny CREPT Instrument to Study the Radiation Belts A smaller version of an instrument now flying on NASA's Van Allen Probes has won a coveted spot aboard an upcoming NASA-sponsored Cubesat mission - the perfect platform for this pint-size, solid-sta ... more		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		First Flight of nEUROn UAV Demonstrator Conducted Northrop Grumman, in cooperation with Saab Aerosystems, has provided the attitude and heading reference system (AHRS) for the nEUROn Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator, which recentl ... more
				Radio Telescope, GPS Use Ionosphere to Detect Nuclear Tests U.S. Naval Research Laboratory radio astronomer, Joseph Helmboldt, Ph.D., and researchers at Ohio State University Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering analyzed radio telesco ... more		Understanding the Magnetosphere Better Than Ever On Earth, scientists can observe weather patterns, and more importantly can predict them, through the use of tens of thousands of weather observatories scattered around the globe. Up in the space su ... more

Invention opens the way to packaging that monitors food freshness

Hong Kong cracks down on baby formula trade

Argentine soybean yield goes below budget

Polymer capacitor dazzles flash manufacturer

Rutgers physicists test highly flexible organic semiconductors

Quantum computers turn mechanical

US chooses Brazilian plane to outfit Afghan force

Indonesia, South Korea to build fighters

F-35 soaring costs trouble Australia

Study: Left-hand turn, cellphone don't mix

Estonia plugs electric cars as power prices soar

China's Geely to set up research centre in Sweden

	Researchers See Ionospheric Signature of North Korean Nuclear Test The explosion of an underground nuclear device by North Korea this week disturbed the Earth's ionosphere. The blast generated infrasonic waves that propagated all the way to the upper atmosphere cau ... more		Telit Offers COMBO 2G Chip For Multi Satellite Positioning Receiver Telit Wireless Solutions has announced the introduction of the company's first combination 2G-cellular, multi-constellation satellite positioning receiver module, the GE910-GNSS. The product w ... more		Marsh plants actively engineer their landscape Marsh plants, far from being passive wallflowers, are "secret gardeners" that actively engineer their landscape to increase their species' odds of survival, says a team of scientists from Duke Unive ... more		U.N. committee to discuss space weather The U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space say it is adding a new agenda item for discussions this year: space weather and its impact on Earth. ... more

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

Boeing Awarded USAF Contract to Continue GPS Modernization		Orbital-Built Landsat Satellite Launched		USGS Ready To Start Landsat 8 Science Program		A system that improves the precision of GPS in cities by 90 percent		LDCM 'Doing Great' in Orbit
Can Leak Detection End the Pipeline Impasse		System improves GPS in city locations		US launches Earth observation satellite		Boeing to modernize U.S. Air Force GPS net		The Sun Produces Two CMEs

Smart satnav drives around the blue highway blues

Ball Supplies Advanced Imaging Instrument For Landsat 8

NightPod Images Bring Earth to Light From Space Station

Landsat Data Continuity Mission Awaits Liftoff

Lockheed Martin Completes Major GPS III Flight Software Milestone

Scotland's first satellite set to boldly go into orbit

Avoiding a cartography catastrophe

Iran TV airs video of captured US drone

Vultures foraging far and wide face a poisonous future

DigitalGlobe and GeoEye Complete Combination

Minnesota cancels moose season

Trimble Introduces High-Accuracy Correction Service For Agriculture

MediaTek Announces World's First 5-in-1 Multi-GNSS Receiver

NASA to Launch Ocean Wind Monitor to ISS

US Army SMDC Funds Andrews Space To Build Kestrel Eye 2 Earth Imaging Nanosat

Google Maps makes Grand Canyon virtual trek

Fleet Managers Able to Track Drivers' Hours with Vehicle Tracking Systems

Remote Sensing Solution Takes Wing Aboard Ultralight Aircraft

African vultures at risk from poisoning

New tools enable high-res observations from anywhere with internet access

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