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Russia probes navigation system spending after crashMoscow (AFP) Dec 7, 2010 Russia launched a probe Tuesday into whether the money assigned to create a satellite navigation rival to the US GPS system was being wisely spent, prosecutors said, after the latest launch ended in failure. The decision followed the failed launch Sunday of three Glonass satellites that were to have completed a satellite constellation whose development had been begun by the Soviet Union back in 1976. Space officials said the rocket carrying the payload had failed to reach its initial low-earth o ... read more |
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  ULA Enters Fifth Year With 45 Launches In 48 Months of Operation As 2010 nears its end, United Launch Alliance (ULA) is proud to celebrate its fourth anniversary with 45 successful launches in the company's 48 months of operation. ULA closed out 2010 in impressiv ... more | .. |
 Russian satellites crash into Pacific: space official Three Russian navigation satellites crashed into the Pacific off the US state of Hawaii Sunday after the rocket carrying them failed to reach orbit, officials from the Russian space agency said. ... more | .. |
  GPS Satellite Achieves 20 Years On-Orbit The Global Positioning System (GPS) constellation is the most robust and capable system in the history of space. Space Vehicle Number (SVN) 23 is a testament to how the Air Force continues to meet a ... more | .. |
  Denmark halts Australian toxic waste shipment The Danish government Thursday postponed a plan to accept a shipment of Australian toxic waste for disposal, following pressure from the centre-left opposition. ... more |
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 World-Leading Spatial Experts Meet In Sydney Senior CSIRO scientists will this week host a meeting of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) in Sydney to discuss developing and implementing new standards for geospatial and location technology. ... more | .. |
 Emirates, Bahrain seek U.S. rocket systems As concerns about Iran's military power among Arab states in the Persian Gulf mount, the United Arab Emirates and tiny Bahrain are acquiring U.S.-built long-range artillery rocket systems amid a major arms buildup to counter the Islamic Republic. ... more | .. |
 Space Ministers Emphasise Priority To Deliver Galileo And GMES Ministers in charge of space activities representing the Member States of the European Space Agency and the European Union met in Brussels for the Seventh Space Council. The Council was jointl ... more | .. |
  Soyuz crew land safely on earth from ISS A Russian cosmonaut and two NASA astronauts came safely back to Earth from the International Space Station in a Soyuz capsule Friday, Russian Mission Control said. ... more |
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  Boeing Offers New Surveillance Detection System Boeing has announced it has begun offering a Surveillance Detection System (SDS) capable of near real-time, 360-degree detection of optical threats. The system identifies when friendly forces ... more | .. |
  Boeing Offers New Surveillance Detection System Boeing has begun offering a Surveillance Detection System (SDS) capable of near real-time, 360-degree detection of optical threats. The system identifies when friendly forces are being monitored or ... more | .. |
  NASA's Newest Microsatellite FASTSAT Launches NASA's Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT, launched at 7:25 p.m. CST Friday aboard a Minotaur IV rocket from Kodiak Launch Complex on Kodiak Island, Alaska. FASTSAT is a ... more | .. |
 New Simulator Offers Ability To Record And Replay GLONASS And GPS Responding to the increasing need for developers of GNSS devices to be able to test GLONASS enabled systems, Racelogic have launched LabSat 2: a dual channel unit capable of recording, replaying, an ... more |
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  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 | .. |
  LockMart Submits Bid For Space Fence Lockheed Martin has submitted its proposal for the next phase of Space Fence, a program that will revamp the way the U.S. Air Force identifies and tracks objects in space. Space Fence will use ... more | .. |
  Danger zone reduced as Indonesian eruption weakens The deadly eruption of Indonesia's Mount Merapi has weakened allowing the government to further reduce the restriction zone around the mountain, a volcanologist said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Months Of Geologic Unrest Signaled Reawakening Of Icelandic Volcano Months of volcanic restlessness preceded the eruptions this spring of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull, providing insight into what roused it from centuries of slumber. An international team ... more |
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 Russia To Launch New Generation Satellite In 2013 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 s ... more | .. |
 SkyTraq Introduces New GLONASS/GPS Receiver SkyTraq introduces S4554GNS, a high-performance low- power GLONASS/GPS receiver. The 88-channel receiver features industry leading 29 second cold start TTFF, -155dBm tracking, and -145dBm cold start ... more | .. |
 Icelandic volcano: Scientists map anatomy of an eruption The eruption of Eyjafjoell, the Icelandic volcano which grounded flights across Europe this year, followed a long, threatening warm-up in which the mountain growled and its icy flanks bulged, scientists said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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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