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November 18, 2010
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Russia To Launch New Generation Satellite In 2013
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 17, 2010
Russia's next generation Glonass-K2 navigation satellite will be launched in 2013, Russia's Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, said on Tuesday. "We have decided to modernize the Glonass signal system. We will introduce new signals with a code separation," Sergei Revnivykh, Deputy Director of Roscosmos's Central Research Institute of Machine Building, told a conference in Moscow. Besides signals on the L3 frequency in the 1205 MHz band, signals will also be transmitted on L1 and L2 frequencies. ... read more

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TECH SPACE

Virtual Reality Helps Researchers Track How Brain Responds To Surroundings
New tools inspired by video games are revealing how the brain senses and responds to its surroundings, finds new human and animal research. Taking advantage of state-of-the art technologies to ... more
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SES To Contribute To Galileo Operations
Global satellite operator SES S.A. has become a key partner in the future operations of Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system. ASTRA TechCom Services, an SES company, has signed a contr ... more
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GPS IIF-1 Introduces A Host Of New Capabilities For Users
There's no satellite system that touches so many lives in so many ways around the world like the Global Positioning System. From finance to farming, from ATMs to UAVs, from rescue missions to shoppi ... more
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NANO TECH

Israel's scientists think big with the very, very small
A material just one atom thick that is stronger than steel but flexes like rubber. A "mini-submarine" that can trick the immune system and deliver a payload of chemotherapy deep inside a tumour. ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

The International Space Weather Initiative
Prompted by a recent increase in solar activity, more than a hundred researchers and government officials are converging on Helwan, Egypt, to discuss a matter of global importance: storms from the s ... more
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Lockheed Martin Delivers Key GPS III Test Hardware Ahead of Schedule
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TECH SPACE

iPhone triggers videogame gold rush
The commercial tsunami unleashed by the iPhone has served as a launch pad for the videogame industry in Montreal, which hopes to seize on the success of Apple's smartphone. ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China launching spacecraft at record rate
China put a navigation satellite in orbit in the 12th space launch of the year, eclipsing its own record for most space missions in a year, authorities said. ... more
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TERROR WARS

SAIC Launches Advanced Intelligence Multimedia Exploitation Suite
Science Applications International has announced it has launched the Advanced Intelligence Multimedia Exploitation Suite (AIMES). The new motion imagery exploitation system enables intelligence anal ... more
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Few Americans using location-based services: Pew study
Foursquare is one of the hottest tech startups around but few Americans are using it or similar location-based services, according to a report released on Thursday. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

After bitter row, Google launches Street View in Germany
Following months of controversy over privacy, US Internet giant Google put its first images from Germany online Tuesday as part of its Street View navigation service. ... more
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GPS maker Garmin hanging up on smartphones
GPS maker Garmin is abandoning the smart phone business after failing to find its way in the highly competitive sector with a handset released a year ago. ... more
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SOLAR DAILY

National Space Society Announces The Kalam-NSS Energy Initiative
The National Space Society will hold a press conference Thursday, November 4 at the National Press Club to reveal one of the first initiatives ever undertaken by a non-profit American organization a ... more
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GPS NEWS

European Satellite Navigation Competition Awards
This year's ESA Innovation Prize for the European Satellite Navigation Competition has been awarded to an application that uses satellites to detect river pollution. A separate prize supported by ES ... more
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Raytheon Completes Software Specification Review for GPS OCX
Raytheon team has successfully completed a key design review of the Global Positioning System (GPS) Advanced Control Segment (OCX), signaling the team's readiness to proceed with the next developmen ... more
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TECH SPACE

Where Is the New Horizons Centaur Stage
When New Horizons launched at 2 p.m. Eastern time on January 19, 2006, its first Atlas V stage and solid rocket boosters fell back to Earth within minutes of launch, never entering orbit. New ... more
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Eartly Dust Tails Point To Alien Worlds

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Savi Challenges You To Imagine The Best Wireless Applications
Savi Technology has announced Project Volcano, an industry wide challenge for developers to explode onto the scene and create new ways that everyone can benefit from wireless technology. The b ... more
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MILTECH

Advanced Full-Motion Video Management Tools For Defense And Intel Users
Boeing has introduced DataMaster 5.0, a software system with full-motion video capability that will enable defense and Intelligence Community customers to better manage vast amounts of intelligence ... more
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ICE WORLD

Increased Arctic Shipping Could Accelerate Climate Change
As the ice-capped Arctic Ocean warms, ship traffic will increase at the top of the world. And if the sea ice continues to decline, a new route connecting international trading partners may emerge - ... more
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China Launches Sixth Satellite For Own GPS Network
China early Monday morning successfully launched its sixth orbiter which will form part of its indigenous satellite-navigation and -positioning network. A Long March-3C carrier rocket carrying ... more
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TECH SPACE

Space Fence Design Moves Into Next Phase
Electronic Systems Center officials released a request for proposal announcement Oct. 20, 2010, for the next phase of a program that will revamp the way space objects and debris are identified and t ... more
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Saudi Helicopters Equiped With Portable GPS Tracking and Communication Device
Blue Sky Network, a leading global provider of GPS tracking and communication solutions for land, sea, and aviation assets, announced that the Red Crescent Authority of Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Arabi ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Teen Sailor Meets NASA Team That Helped Saved Her Life
It has been almost six months since 16-year-old Abby Sunderland's 40-foot vessel, Wild Eyes, was damaged in a storm, leaving her stranded in the middle of the Indian Ocean. But now, she finally got ... more
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'Exorbitant' price talk for Galileo maps way off beam: EU
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