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GIS Development Announces Latin American Geospatial ForumRio de Janeiro, Brazil (SPX) Feb 22, 2011 GIS Development with intent to expand its activities and programs in Latin American continent has announced their upcoming conference Latin American Geospatial Forum to be organised from 17th 19th August 2011 at Barra Windsor Hotel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, preceded by a pre-conference NMO-Industry exchange forum on 16th August 2011. The Latin American Geospatial Forum is GIS Development s first Annual Conference and Exhibition on Geospatial Information Technology and Applications in the region. It ... read more |
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  ATV Johannes Kepler Operating Flawlessly Following a spectacular launch on 16 February, Europe's space freighter is now in its planned orbit. Mission controllers are preparing to match its trajectory with that of the International Space St ... more | .. |
  Space weather could wreak havoc in gadget-driven world A geomagnetic space storm sparked by a solar eruption like the one that flared toward Earth Tuesday is bound to strike again and could wreak havoc across the gadget-happy modern world, experts say. ... more | .. |
  EU issues urgent call to 21 states on satellite network The European Commission on Thursday ordered 21 EU states to get their act together and meet a deadline to install a pan-European mobile satellite network under its broadband-for-all drive. ... more | .. | ||
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  DuPont Microcircuit Materials Expands Printed Electronics Research with Holst Centre Collaboration DuPont Microcircuit Materials (MCM), part of DuPont Electronics and Communications, has announced a key collaboration with Holst Centre, an independent open-innovation R and D centre set up by imec ... more | .. |
Huge solar flare jams radio, satellite signals: NASA A powerful solar eruption that has already disturbed radio communications in China could disrupt electrical power grids and satellites used on Earth in the next days, NASA said. ... more | .. |
Earth dodges geomagnetic storm: scientist A wave of charged plasma particles from a huge solar eruption has glanced off the Earth's northern pole, lighting up auroras and disrupting some radio communications, a NASA scientist said. ... more | .. |
  Mars, Brought To You By Corporate Sponsors NASA scientists and their colleagues are now proposing corporate financing for a human mission to Mars. This raises the prospect that a spaceship named the Microsoft Explorer or the Google Search En ... more |
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 Lockheed Martin-Built GPS Satellite Exceeds 10 Years On-Orbit The seventh Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-7/SVN-54) satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], has reached 10 years of successful on-orbit operations, and continues ... more | .. |
  Russia says foreign power may have caused spy satellite loss The Russian space agency suggested Monday that a foreign power may have been behind the space accident that disabled one of the country's most modern military satellites earlier this month. ... more | .. |
  How Much Information Is There In The World? A study appearing on Feb. 10 in Science Express, an electronic journal that provides select Science articles ahead of print, calculates the world's total technological capacity - how much informatio ... more | .. |
 HTC launches social smartphones with Facebook Facebook users will be able to show friends their exact GPS location as well as sharing text and photos with new smartphones launched here Tuesday by top Taiwan device maker HTC. ... more |
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 Russia To Launch Glonass Satellite Feb 24 Russia will launch a new Glonass-K navigation satellite from the Plesetsk space center on February 24, the Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. The Glonass satellite network is Russia's answer ... more | .. |
  Raytheon Conducts Free-Flight Demonstration Of JSOW-C From F-16IN Raytheon has completed a series of free-flight demonstrations of the Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) AGM-154-C from an F-16IN fighter aircraft. The tests were part of the Indian Air Force's Medium Mult ... more | .. |
 Floppy discs out, Blu-rays in -- Greece revises stats Greece has thrown out nearly a dozen items such as floppy discs, photo film and matches from a list of "nearly extinct" goods used until now to calculate inflation, the state statistics agency said. ... more | .. |
  Research Helps Drivers Cut Fuel Use Ever wonder how much fuel you can save by avoiding stop-and-go traffic, closing your window, not using air conditioning or coasting toward stops? Research at the University of California, Rive ... more |
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 US, France agree to share space data US and French defense leaders penned a cooperation agreement on Tuesday designed to help track space debris and avoid collisions of vital satellites. ... more | .. |
  UA Engineers Study Birds And Bees To Design Robust Unmanned Vehicles University of Arizona aerospace and mechanical engineers are studying bird and bee flight to develop unmanned vehicles that stay aloft longer and cope with sudden and severe changes in airflow. ... more | .. |
 Russia Loses New Military Satellite Russia has most likely lost a new dual-purpose geodesic satellite after it failed to reach a designated circular orbit 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) above Earth. The GEO-IK-2 satellite, designe ... more | .. |
 SkyTraq Introduces Low-Power High-Performance GLONASS/GPS Receiver SkyTraq introduces S4554GNS-LP, a high-performance low- power GLONASS/GPS receiver. It features industry leading 29 second cold start TTFF, -159dBm navigation sensitivity, -145dBm cold starting sens ... more |
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Russia loses military satellite: reports Russia's top military and space official launched a search Tuesday for a missing military satellite that apparently was put into the wrong orbit shortly after its launch. ... more | .. |
  Google jumps into location check-in game Google on Tuesday began letting smartphone users check into spots on the go as the Internet star jumped into the hot location-based services arena with Facebook, Foursquare and Gowalla. ... more | .. |
  New Transistor For Plastic Electronics Exhibits Best of Both Worlds In the quest to develop flexible plastic electronics, one of the stumbling blocks has been creating transistors with enough stability for them to function in a variety of environments while still ma ... more |
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 JAXA Selects Spirent For Multi-GNSS Testing To further the development of the Quazi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) program, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has selected Spirent Communications' testing solutions to verify perf ... more | .. |
  Raytheon to supply radios to Aussie army Raytheon Australia has won a $70 million contract to supply position reporting systems, including radios, support equipment and maintenance work, to the Australian army. ... more | .. |
 Nokia in maps tie-up with China's Sina, Tencent Nokia on Friday announced a deal with Chinese Internet firms Sina and Tencent to let phone users upload their location to social networks together with tips on local services via Nokia's map service. ... more | .. |
 When Artemis Talks, Johannes Kepler Listens After Ariane 5 lofts ATV Johannes Kepler into space on 15 February, ESA's Artemis data relay satellite will be ready for action. Artemis will provide communications between Johannes Kepler and ... more |
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 Russia To Launch New Batch Of Glonass Satellites By June Russia will launch another three Glonass-M satellites on board a Proton heavy carrier rocket later this year to complete the orbiting Glonass grouping, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos sa ... more | .. |
 LockMart To Enhance Space Systems Development With Opening Of New Virtual Laboratory Lockheed Martin plans to increase the affordability and efficiency of space system development with the opening of a new advanced technology and virtual simulation facility, known as the Collaborati ... more | .. |
 'Smartphone Satellite' Developed By Surrey Space Researchers Space researchers at the University of Surrey and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) have developed 'STRaND-1', a satellite containing a smartphone payload that will be launched into orbit a ... more | .. |
  Nepal uses satellites to track rare tiger An injured wild tiger that strayed into a tourist resort in Nepal has been moved to a new home in the jungle and fitted with a satellite collar so its progress can be tracked, the government said. ... more |
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