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Surplus Fuel Believed Cause For Russia's Glonass Satellite LossMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Dec 13, 2010 The main cause of the loss of Russia's three Glonass-M satellites was due to human error from fueling the booster rocket with an excess of 1.5-2 tons of fuel, the head of the Russian state commission probing the incident said on Friday. The excessive fuel caused the DM-3 booster rocket to deviate from its course, leading to the subsequent loss of the satellites in the Pacific Ocean earlier in the week. "According to preliminary information, the problem was not with the fuel service unit at t ... read more |
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  Russia probes navigation system spending after crash 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. ... more | .. |
  Cracker Barrel To Install ECOtality's Blink EV Charging Stations ECOtality has announced that Cracker Barrel Old Country Store has joined The EV Project, and will install ECOtality's Blink electric vehicle (EV) charging stations at restaurant and store locations. ... more | .. |
  RAAF Is First US Ally To Employ JSOW C The Royal Australian Air Force launched two Raytheon Joint Standoff Weapon Cs from the RAAF's new F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, marking the first time a U.S. ally has operationally tested a JSOW C. This t ... more | .. |
  Mountainfolk make climate plea as UN talks approach climax Mountain communities and the UN on Thursday joined hands to warn of the "devastating" impact of global warming in mountain areas, as climate change talks draw to a close in Cancun. ... 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 | .. |
  Next-Gen Earth Imaging Satellite Advances To Critical Design Review Phase The Lockheed Martin team designing GeoEye's next-generation, high-resolution imaging satellite, known as GeoEye-2, successfully completed the program's Preliminary Design Review (PDR) three weeks ah ... more | .. |
 GPS Not Working A Shoe Radar May Help You Find Your Way The prevalence of global positioning system (GPS) devices in everything from cars to cell phones has almost made getting lost a thing of the past. But what do you do when your GPS isn't workin ... more |
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 Program Error Caused Russian Glonass Satellite Loss A program error caused a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket to deviate from its course and lose a booster carrying three Glonass-M satellites, a source in the Russian space industry said on Monday. ... 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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 | .. |
  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 |
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 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 | .. |
  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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  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 | .. |
 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 |
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