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Sailor Reflects On NASA Technology That Saved His LifeGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 27, 2010 Just seven days after setting sail for a tiny island off the eastern tip of Puerto Rico on Dec. 26, 2009, Missourian Dennis Clements thought his life was over; his crippled 34-foot Fiberglas sailboat - buffeted for four days by gale-force winds and high seas - had capsized, tossing him into the frigid waters of the North Atlantic Ocean. "At one point, I saw the mast pointed straight down to the bottom of sea, and the boat continued to roll," he said. "I was shaken loose somewhere underwater ... read more |
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Paris, France (ESA) May 13, 2010Entrepreneurs have the chance to win prizes totalling a million euros in this year's European Satellite Navigation Competition. ESA will award a special prize of euros 10 000 for the best idea and support the business start up at one of its four incubation centres. Now in its seventh year, the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) is boosting ideas for innovative satnav applica ... more  
Los Angeles (AFP) May 12, 2010A Macau resident has been convicted of trying to illegally export communications, encryption and GPS equipment used by the US military and NATO forces, the Department of Justice said Wednesday. Chi Tong Kuok, also known as Edison Kuok, was convicted by a federal jury in San Diego, south of here, on Tuesday of trying to export defense articles to Macau and Hong Kong without a license, the dep ... more  
Yasny, Russia (SPX) May 12, 2010SSTL has announced that it will launch the NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X satellites on behalf of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) by a Dnepr launch vehicle from Yasny, Russia on 29th October 2010. NigeriaSat-2 is the most advanced small satellite ever to be launched, defining new standards in Earth observation and avionics. The spacecraft, which is based upon SST ... more |
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GOCE Satellite Determines Gravitational Force In The HimalayasMunich, Germany (SPX) May 10, 2010 ESA's GOCE satellite has been orbiting the Earth for more than a year and surveying its gravitational field more accurately than any instrument previously. The goal of the researchers - including scientists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) - is to determine the gravitational force in precise detail even in pathless places like the Himalayas. Evaluations of the first data from the satellite indicate that current models of the gravitational field in some regions can be fundamentally rev ... read more |
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