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Galactic GPS Possible With Pulsars And Gravity WavesRohnert Park CA (SPX) Jan 06, 2010 Radio astronomers have uncovered 17 millisecond pulsars in our galaxy by studying unknown high-energy sources detected by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The astronomers made the discovery in less than three months. Such a jump in the pace of locating these hard-to-find objects holds the promise of using them as a kind of "galactic GPS" to detect gravitational waves passing near Earth. A pulsar is the rapidly spinning and highly magnetized core left behind when a massive star explodes. ... read more |
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Washington DC (AFNS) Dec 30, 2009Imagine a threat to the global community with the potential to damage communication satellites, interrupt navigation systems, shut down regional power grids, impede oil and gas exploration, expose aircraft crews to high levels of radiation, and endanger the lives of astronauts. That threat exists, but it's not from any well-organized terrorist group. It's from t ... more  
Washington (AFP) Dec 27, 2009While it got off to a rocky start with the overhyped Y2K bug and dotcom bubble, the era dubbed the "Digital Decade" by Microsoft's Bill Gates has turned out to be a dizzying period of innovation. "It's been an amazingly vibrant decade for the Internet and for digital things in general," said John Abell, New York bureau chief of Wired magazine, which has chronicled the technological leaps and bounds of the past 10 years. "People simply don't exist in a non-digital world at all," Abell told AFP. "Even grandmothers and Luddites all have tools and devices - even if they don't realize they're using them - which connect them to a digital world." ... more  
Washington (AFP) Dec 24, 2009Twitter not only wants to know what you're doing it wants to know where you are. The micro-blogging service announced Wednesday that it has purchased Mixer Labs, a California-based startup that builds location-tracking tools. "We want to know What's happening?, and more precisely, Where is it happening?" Twitter co-founder Evan Williams said in a blog post. "As a dramatic example, tw ... more |
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Dulles, VA (SPX) Dec 21, 2009Orbital Sciences reports that it has been selected by Intelsat, S.A., the leading provider of fixed satellite services, to design, build and deliver the Intelsat 23 (IS-23) commercial communications satellite. The satellite will be based on Orbital's flight-proven STAR-2 platform. The IS-23 satellite will generate 4.8 kilowatts of payload power and carry 15 active Ku-band and 24 active ... more  
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Dec 21, 2009The most detailed seismic images yet published of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth of at least 410 miles, contradicting claims that there is no deep plume, only shallow hot rock moving like slowly boiling soup. A related University of Utah study used gravity measurements to indicate ... more 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Dec 18, 2009The operator of the Glonass satellite navigation project has taken control of three newly orbited satellites, Russia's leading satellite manufacturer said on Tuesday. The satellites are being operated from the Glonass mission control in the town of Krasnoznamensk, near Moscow. "The first communication sessions have been carried out with all satellites. All systems of the spacecrafts ... more |
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