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IKONOS Marks 11 Years On-OrbitSunnyvale CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2010 IKONOS, the world's first commercial, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] and currently operated by GeoEye has achieved 11 years of successful on-orbit operations. A first-of-its-kind satellite, IKONOS was launched on Sept. 24, 1999 to provide high-resolution imagery of the Earth for worldwide commercial and government customers. The spacecraft continues to collect 0.82-meter resolution black-and-white images while simultaneously collecting fo ... read more |
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Arlington VA (AFNS) Sep 15, 2010A portable, laser backpack for 3D mapping has been developed at the University of California, Berkeley, where it is being hailed as a breakthrough technology capable of producing fast, automatic and realistic 3D mapping of difficult interior environments. Research leading to the development of the reconnoitering backpack, was funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Ar ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 15, 2010NASA and European researchers have conducted a novel study to simultaneously measure, for the first time, trends in how water is transported across Earth's surface and how the solid Earth responds to the retreat of glaciers following the last major Ice Age, including the shifting of Earth's center of mass. To calculate the changes, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, ... more  
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Sep 15, 2010After heavy rains and winds from Hurricane Earl pummeled their operations base in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, three Purdue University students continue to collect data as part of a team flying over the tropical Atlantic Ocean to take measurements of what might develop into tropical storm Gaston. Graduate students Alexandria Johnson, Brian Murphy and Paytsar Muradyan are part of a National S ... more |
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Japan launches satellite for better GPS coverageTokyo (AFP) Sept 11, 2010 Japan on Saturday launched a rocket carrying a satellite intended to improve global positioning systems. The H-IIA rocket blasted off at 8:17pm (1117 GMT) from the Tanegashima space centre in southern Japan, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). About 30 minutes after the launch, the rocket successfully released the "Michibiki" satellite, whose name means "showing the way". JAXA scientists hope the satellite will boost the accuracy and coverage of GPS, which is widely u ... read more |
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