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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 04, 2009 
Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle, Oct. 18, 2009, the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI) developed by NRL's Space Science Division and Spacecraft Engineering Department offers a first of its kind technique for remote sensing of the ionosphere and thermosphere from space. Flying on-orbit the U.S. Air Force ... read more 
Merrimack NH (SPX) Nov 04, 2009Raymarine has introduced the 33STV, the latest in their line of Satellite TV Antenna Systems, which features a high performance 13" satellite dish inside a compact 14" radome, weighing less than ten pounds, to accommodate both powerboats and sailboats under 25 feet in length. Equipped with Dynamic Beam Tilting and Wide Range Search, all of Raymarine's Satellite TV Systems are able to track ... more
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Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Nov 04, 2009Could a U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Space Camp grad be the next U.S Air Force F-16 Pilot or GPS System operator? The Air Force only hopes so. The U.S. Space and Rocket Center is located in Huntsville, Alabama. "Space Camp" is what the center is commonly known as and provides residental and day camp educational programs for children in various age groups and adults. Space Camp is a series ... more  
Newtown PA (SPX) Nov 03, 2009The third Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-3) satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin to provide significantly improved navigation capabilities for military and civilian users worldwide, has reached 10 years of successful on-orbit operational service. The satellite was launched on Oct. 7, 1999, and is one of 30 GPS spacecraft currently on-orbit, providing critical ... more  
Plesetsk, Russia (ESA) Nov 02, 2009The second satellite in ESA's Earth Explorer series-the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission-and the second demonstration satellite under ESA's Project for Onboard Autonomy (Proba-2) were launched into orbit last night from northern Russia. SMOS will play a key role in the monitoring of climate change on a global scale. It is the first ever satellite designed both to map sea sur ... more |
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London, UK (SPX) Oct 30, 2009GeoLife and PosiMotion have announced that they have submitted an application to the Apple App Store which enables personal turn-by-turn navigation on both the iPod touch and the iPhone. When the application is approved it will be the first navigation solution available for the iPod touch. Navigation on the iPod touch is made possible through Geolife's Navmii software and PosiMotion's ... more 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 30, 2009Many of us have been rescued from unfamiliar territory by directions from a Global Positioning System (GPS) navigator. GPS satellites send signals to a receiver in your GPS navigator, which calculates your position based on the location of the satellites and your distance from them. The distance is determined by how long it took the signals from various satellites to reach your receiver. ... more  
Morgantown WV (SPX) Oct 30, 2009The U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) recently demonstrated autonomous operations by multiple "swarms" of unmanned air and ground vehicles, unattended ground sensors, video cameras and other devices linked together in an intelligent network powered by EdgeFrontier platform technologies from Augusta Systems, Inc. The demonstrations were held at a National Aeronautics and Space ... more |
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