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Crew Inspects Shuttle And Preps For Landing Friday Houstin TX (SPX) Jul 31, 2009
Twin satellite deployments and a check of the systems that will control Endeavour's return home to the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, are on tap today as the shuttle leads the International Space Station in orbit. The crew was awakened at 1:03 a.m. CDT to the sounds of "I Got You Babe," performed by Sonny and Cher. The song was a special request for Koichi Wakata, the first Japan Aerospace ... read moreIntegral Systems Submits Proposal For Next Generation Global Positioning System
Columbia MD (SPX) Jul 30, 2009Integral Systems, Inc has submitted a proposal to deliver an integrated, advanced command and control solution for the Global Positioning System (GPS) Next Generation Advanced Control Segment (OCX) program. Integral Systems is a member of the Northrop Grumman team competing for the open-architecture, next-generation control segment contract. GPS OCX will provide command and control ... more
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Largest US Landscaper Tracks Roots With Sprint GPS Solutions
Overland Park KS (SPX) Jul 30, 2009Sprint and ValleyCrest Landscape Companies have announced an agreement for Sprint to add GPS services to ValleyCrest's communications toolkit at select branch locations. The location-based services (LBS) will help ValleyCrest better track employee job location and company assets for these field branches. The tool also helps the landscape and lawn maintenance giant handle payroll and route ... more ESRI MapIt Correlates Your Business Data With Maps
Redlands, California (SPX) Jul 30, 2009Businesses have an exciting new tool to gain insight into their business operations with ESRI MapIt. A new software product from ESRI, the market leader in geographic information systems (GIS), MapIt combines software with services to enable businesses to create maps displaying their enterprise data. MapIt software transforms the static spreadsheet and tabular data that managers typically ... more DeLorme Releases Its Latest Topographic Dataset
Yarmouth ME (SPX) Jul 30, 2009DeLorme has announced its release of the 2009 edition of USA Topographic Map Data for use with the XMap GIS software suite. This unique dataset offers users of DeLorme's three-tiered XMap GIS suite a highly detailed and customizable base map with coverage for the U.S., Canada, and Mexico on a single DVD. This latest release of the USA Topographic Map Data 2009 includes a significant number ... more |
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Commentary: Rough verbal riders
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 UK-DMC2 Ready For Launch
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Jul 24, 2009Thursday 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 ... more GMV To Develop Vehicle Position Integrity App To Prevent Inaccurate Road Charges
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 |
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