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Europe defends 'stupid' Galileo satelliteStrasbourg (AFP) Jan 18, 2011 Europe stood by its much-delayed and over-budget Galileo satellite navigation system on Tuesday despite a rising price tag and a contractor's description of the project as "stupid." Previously estimated to cost 3.4 billion euros, the European Commission said an extra 1.9 billion euros was needed to complete the constellation of satellites, raising its price tag to 5.4 billion euros ($7.2 billion). Aimed at rivaling the US-built Global Positioning System (GPS) and Chinese and Russian projects, th ... read more |
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  ISRO-Enabled Control Room For Anti-Naxal Operations A state-of-the-art control room with giant TV screens that will help track the offensive of security forces in Naxal strongholds with satellite imaging and GPS has been activated at the CRPF headqua ... more | .. |
  2011 to be 'revolution' for Europe in space - ESA Europe is set for a space "revolution" in 2011 when two new types of rocket join its launch pad in French Guiana, European Space Agency (ESA) boss Jean-Jacques Dordain said on Friday. ... more | .. |
 Galileo satnav system called 'stupid idea': US cable The head of a German firm working on Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system called it a "stupid idea" being pushed by France for military reasons, a leaked US diplomatic cable showed Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Russia to spend $3.8B on space program The Russian government will spend $3.8 billion on its national space program in 2011, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. ... more |
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 Another GPS Software Upgrade Completed As part of a larger ongoing effort by Air Force officials to improve and maintain the current GPS ground system, Air Force Space Command officials completed another sustainment software release for ... more | .. |
 China schools issue GPS phones to boost safety Schools in Beijing are giving GPS-equipped mobile phones to students, as China seeks to tackle the twin problems of missing children and campus violence, state press said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Fresh snow storm bears down on New York New Yorkers, still reeling from one of the biggest snow storms in the Big Apple's history, faced a fresh dump of the white stuff Friday as officials vowed to be better prepared this time. ... more | .. |
 GPSCaddy Golf App Now Offers Free Course Maps Calton Hill, the Scottish mobile phone application developers, have announced that all golf course maps for their prize-winning GPSCaddy app are now free. This makes GPSCaddy even better value ... more |
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 ISRO To Implement Regional Navigation Satellite System The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to implement the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) to provide India and neighbouring countries with the Position Navigation and ... more | .. |
 Russia To Launch 50 ComSats Over Next Five Years Russia plans to launch five Glonass communication satellites in 2011 and 48 more later to create a Cosmonaut information highway, local media reported Wednesday. There are 20 of 26 Glonass sat ... more | .. |
 Magellan Introduces New Member To eXplorist Family Magellan has announced the introduction of the Magellan eXplorist 310 GPS receiver, a power-packed, waterproof, and rugged handheld GPS designed for essential outdoor navigation. The newest ad ... more | .. |
 Japan eyes building its own GPS system Japan is considering launching new satellites to establish its own global positioning system (GPS) in a bid to reduce its reliance on the US navigation network, officials said on Wednesday. ... more |
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 Garmin Has A GPS Device For Everyone Garmin International has announced that its 2011 Consumer Electronics Show product line-up is one of its most diverse ever and is designed to emphasize the different ways GPS can be used across all ... more | .. |
 Networks Of Up To 2 Million Cells Now Supported By GeoLENs Location Platform Touting one of the wireless industry's most comprehensive location platforms, Andrew Solutions, the CommScope, Inc. division that is a global leader in wireless communication systems and products, h ... more | .. |
 Software Will Take Half Of The Total Nav Market By 2016 Industry experts have long ago decided which side of the "software is killing the dedicated in-car navigation device" debate they are on. However, in a market with traditionally long product life-cy ... more | .. |
 Privacy Push Will Impact Geolocation Sector Efforts to protect consumers' privacy on the Internet are likely to impact companies that collect, use or distribute geolocation data, said LeClairRyan attorney Kevin D. Pomfret, a leading advisor i ... more |
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 President Medvedev Sacks Space Officials Over Satellite Loss Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed two senior space industry officials and reprimanded the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Anatoly Perminov on Wednesday over the recent loss of thr ... more | .. |
  Six Years After The Tsunami Disaster Six years after the tsunami disaster of 26/12/2004, the set-up of the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System for the Indian Ocean (GITEWS) has been completed. The project ends on 31 March 20 ... more | .. |
  Bob Benson: Tales Of Chilly Research As the weather gets colder in Maryland, Bob Benson tells tales of winters he used to know in Minnesota, the South Pole, and Alaska. A five-decade career studying Earth's ionosphere - the part of Ear ... more | .. |
 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 |
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  ISRO Cannot Afford Failures The Indian space research organization (ISRO) was not destined to end the year on a cheerful note. On Christmas eve its GSAT-5P satellite launch mission failed in the "first stage" of the launch pro ... more | .. |
  Space weather: Forecasters keep eye on looming 'Solar Max' The coming year will be an important one for space weather as the Sun pulls out of a trough of low activity and heads into a long-awaited and possibly destructive period of turbulence. ... more | .. |
Medvedev fires space chiefs after satellite crash 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. ... 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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