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 Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Jul 24, 2009 
Thursday 23rd July 2009- SSTL's UK-DMC2 satellite has successfully completed pre-launch tests and is integrated with a Dnepr launch vehicle at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in readiness for launch on Wednesday, 29th July 2009 at 18:46 UTC, 19:46 BST. The new satellite will be operated by subsidiary company DMCii to provide an enhanced imaging capability and operational service to the Disaster ... read more 
Whiteman AFB MO (SPX) Jul 24, 2009Northrop Grumman has moved the U.S. Air Force a critical step closer to being able to drop a from the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. 30,000 pound penetrator weapon On April 28, an Air Force team, a Northrop Grumman-led aircraft contractor team and a Boeing-led weapon contractor team verified that the equipment required to integrate the new Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) on the B-2 -- the ... more
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Washington (UPI) Jul 23, 2009 The party's getting rough. Elementary manners, let alone civility, are anachronisms on the evening cable talk programs where Larry King is the courteous softball exception. Gossip is served up as news, whammy as commentary, fiction as fact, biases as straight news reporting. A new journalism of assertion and vilification has displaced the old journalism of verification. Inflammatory verbal ... more  
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jul 23, 2009GMV is leading a team of 12 European-based companies to develop a road sector project called GINA for the European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA). GINA involves utilizing EGNOS, the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service and GALILEO, the European satellite-navigation program, to ensure the highest degree of accuracy of vehicle positioning and position integrity to prevent driv ... more  
Washington (UPI) Jul 21, 2009 Raytheon Co., the defense and aerospace systems supplier based in Waltham, Mass., will supply India a GPS-aided air navigation system with a footprint extending beyond the subcontinent to Southeast Asia. Raytheon said it won an $82 million contract for installing the system by 2013. The contract was awarded by the Indian Space Research Organization. Raytheon will build the ground ... more 
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Jul 23, 2009Current Technology reports its 62% owned Texas-based subsidiary Celevoke has completed the initial prototype for the worldwide monitoring, tracking, safety, security, and control of shipping containers. Designed as a covert tool, Celevoke's Container Security Solution is "HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT". "Unfortunately we live in a world where the safety and security of both assets and people ar ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2009This scene combines seven frames taken by the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit during the 1,891st Martian day, or sol, of Spirit's mission on Mars (April 28, 2009). It covers a vista from south-southeast on the left to northeast on the right. This view is from the position Spirit reached with a drive that moved the rover only about 14 centimeters (5.5 inches) ... more 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 16, 2009NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to take the images combined into this 360-degree view of the rover's surroundings on the 1,850th Martian day, or sol, of its surface mission (April 7, 2009). Opportunity had driven 62.5 meters (205 feet) that sol, southward away from an outcrop called "Penrhyn," which the rover had been examining for a few sols, and towar ... more 
Lakewood CO (SPX) Jul 17, 2009The FMARS Xll 2009 crew has arrived on "Mars" and is now entering their formal simulated Mars mission. They are on Devon Island, north of the Arctic Circle, peering out the portholes of the Mars habitat located at the edge of the Haughton Crater. The stark beauty of the arctic desert scenery adds to the realism of this epic endeavor, with human explorers restricted by operational ... more 
Olathe KS (SPX) Jul 14, 2009Garmin International has announced it has expanded its relationship with BMW Motorrad and the companies have developed the next generation BMW Motorrad Navigator, the Navigator IV, a motorcycle-friendly GPS navigator that is based on Garmin's zumo 660. The BMW Motorrad Navigator IV takes the best of Garmin's navigation technology and adds exclusive, BMW specific features such as a ... more 
London, UK (SPX) Jul 10, 2009While PNDs and in-dash navigation device sales continue to suffer from the economic recession, handset-based turn-by-turn navigation is boosted by the rapidly growing smartphone segment. ABI Research expects the number of paying handset-based turn-by-turn navigation users to increase to 26 million by the end of 2010 with the Asia-Pacific region experiencing the strongest growth. ... more |
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Lockheed Martin Reaches Core Mate Milestone on First GPS IIIF Satellite Slated for Launch
Camera-only navigation system cuts localization drift by up to 95 percent without GPS or LiDAR
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