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Medvedev fires space chiefs after satellite crashMoscow (AFP) Dec 29, 2010 President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday fired two top space officials and reprimanded the space agency chief after a launch failure caused Russia to delay the deployment of its own navigation system. This month's failed launch of three Glonass-M orbiters marked a humiliating setback to the country's efforts to introduce a global rival to the US Global Positioning System (GPS). A presidential statement said Energia Vice President Vyacheslav Filin and Roskosmos deputy head Viktor Remishevsky had be ... read more |
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  Galileo Pathfinder GIOVE-A Achieves Five Years In Orbit ESA's GIOVE-A satellite - the first prototype of Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system - is still working well after five years in space. The first 'Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element' ... more | .. |
  Russia puts European satellite Ka-Sat in orbit Russia on Monday put into orbit the European Ka-Sat satellite launched overnight by a Proton-M rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, space officials said. ... more | .. |
  TanDEM-X Ready For Routine Operations In 2011 On 14 December 2010, TanDEM-X passed another important milestone: the radar mission's test phase has concluded in less than six months according to plan, paving the way for routine operations - the ... more | .. |
  Russian rocket docks with space station A Russian Soyuz space rocket carrying three astronauts on Friday docked with the International Space Station (ISS), Russia's mission control said. ... more |
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  NASA's LRO Creating Unprecedented Topographic Map Of Moon NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is allowing researchers to create the most precise and complete map to date of the moon's complex, heavily cratered landscape. "This dataset is being used t ... more | .. |
 Launch Of New Russian Navigation Satellite Postponed To Next Year The launch of Russia's new-generation Glonass-K satellite has been postponed until 2011, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. The satellite atop a Soyuz-2.1.b carrier rocket was to blast off ... more | .. |
 Mexico Quake Studies Uncover Surprises For California New technologies developed by NASA and other agencies are revealing surprising insights into a major earthquake that rocked parts of the American Southwest and Mexico in April, including increased p ... more | .. |
 Galileo's Navigation Control Hub Opens In Fucino Galileo's terrestrial nerve centre formally entered service Today. With the first Galileo satellites due to be launched next August, Fucino in central Italy will oversee the running of all the navig ... more |
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 China Launches Seventh Orbiter For Indigenous Global SatNav System China successfully launched an orbiter into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern Sichuan Province at 4:20 a.m. Beijing Time Saturday. It was the seventh orbiter that ... more | .. |
  'iCrime' wave fuelled by insatiable appetite for smartphones The fashionable folk tapping on Blackberrys or using apps on iPhones in New York, Paris or Barcelona have more in common than a taste for expensive hand-held devices. ... more | .. |
  Fuel error cost Russia three navigation satellites: official The costly launch failure that caused Russia to delay the deployment of its own satellite system was the result of a fuel miscalculation, a commission charged with probing the accident said Friday. ... more | .. |
 A2100 Commercial Satellite Fleet Achieves 300 Years In Orbit The Lockheed Martin A2100 commercial communications satellite fleet has achieved a major milestone by accumulating 300 years of successful in-orbit operations. The A2100 satellite series, desi ... more |
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  Air Force Flight Control Improvements Flying insects' altitude control mechanisms are the focus of research being conducted in a Caltech laboratory under an Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant that may lead to technology that ... more | .. |
 United Vision Logistics Selects New Technologies United Vision Logistics is pleased to announce its selection of McLeod Software for its enterprise transportation management solution and Qualcomm Transportation Services to provide its mobile commu ... more | .. |
 Trimble Introduces SiteFID Gas Monitoring Solution Trimble has introduced the SiteFID Gas Monitoring solution for the environmental services market. The solution, specifically designed for environmental consultants and landfill operations mana ... more | .. |
 Antenova Launches M10372 GPS RADIONOVA with CSR's SiRFstarIV Architecture Antenova has announced M10372 GPS RADIONOVA - a planar mount GPS Radio Antenna Module incorporating CSR's market leading SiRFstarIV GPS chipset with Antenova's high performing patented antenna techn ... more |
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 NAVTEQ Expands Global R And D Capabilities NAVTEQ has announced the company's expansion of designated R and D Global Development Centers (GDC) to include operations in Mumbai, India. The center will employ 150 R and D team members and ... more | .. |
 Universal Address And GPS Enhanced Google Maps For iPhones NAC Geographic Products Inc. announced the release of NACMaps for iPhones - a suite of three tools: NAC Locator, NAC Searcher and NAC Router. NACMaps is a feature enriched Universal Addresses and GP ... more | .. |
 New GeoGroups App Reinvents Geo-Social Experience GeoGroups has launched its geo-social mobile app that helps families, friends, like-minded individuals and professionals interact via separate public or private groups on a single personalized map. ... more | .. |
 Officials Complete GPS Software Upgrade Ahead Of Schedule Officials with the 2nd Space Operations Squadron at Schriever AFB, Colo., have completed their sustainment software release for the GPS operational control segment ground system ahead of schedule. ... more |
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 Clarion Voice-Activated Navigation System The Clarion-supplied, factory-installed Voice-Activated Navigation System, available in the Ford Fusion, ranks "Highest Satisfaction," according to J.D. Power and Associates 2010 Navigation Usage an ... more | .. |
 GPS Tracking Technology Helps With Winter Weather Technology gave us the ability to predict severe winter weather and now it's helping when it comes to dealing with the aftermath. Due to the recent record of snow fall in the northeast, munici ... more | .. |
 Europe Opens An Arctic Eye On Galileo Today saw the opening of a remote, northerly site in the worldwide network of Galileo ground stations. The Kiruna Galileo Station in the Swedish Arctic will play a vital role communicating with the ... more | .. |
 CSDC's AMANDA Citizen Service Platform Enhances GIS Support CSDC Systems has announced newly enhanced GIS integration capabilities in its AMANDA citizen service platform that will transform the way governments deliver services. These GIS capabilities w ... more |
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