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Against The Tide: Currents Keep Dolphins ApartNew York NY (SPX) Mar 25, 2011 Conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and other conservation and research groups have discovered that groups of dolphins in the western Indian Ocean do not mix freely with one another. In fact, dolphin populations are kept separate by currents and other unseen factors. Specifically, the researchers have found that genetically distinct populations of the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin may be formed in part by currents, surface temperature di ... read more |
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 Measurements Of Winter Arctic Sea Ice Shows Continuing Ice Loss The 2011 Arctic sea ice extent maximum that marks the beginning of the melt season appears to be tied for the lowest ever measured by satellites, say scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder ... more | .. |
 Secretary Salazar Charts Future For Landsat Satellite Program The Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has announced plans to make the Department of the Interior the permanent manager of the Landsat series of Earth observation satellites. "Bringing the ... more | .. |
 NASA Global Hawk Takes Earth's Temperature Over Pacific Ocean A Northrop Grumman-produced Global Hawk high altitude unmanned aircraft began a series of flights over the Pacific Ocean on Feb. 11 as part of a campaign to study atmospheric rivers. Known as Winter ... more | .. | ||
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  Russian Investigators Probe Roscosmos Workers For Glonass Loss The Russian Investigative Committee said on Tuesday it is probing workers at Russia's Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, for negligence that may have caused the loss of three Glonass-M satellites in D ... more | .. |
 Thirst For Knowledge: NASA Eyes World's Water As the world moves toward adding a few more billion people in the coming decades, many people who keep an eye on the horizon find themselves worried about water. Drinking water, water for irrigation ... more | .. |
  Migrating birds linked to avian flu spread International and U.S. researchers say wild migratory birds may have a role in the spread of bird flu, also known as highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1. ... more | .. |
 Scanner eyes Earth's coastlines from space Images of Earth's coastal regions from a space-borne scanner are helping scientists monitor events from oil spills to plankton blooms, U.S. researchers say. ... more |
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 NASA IR Satellite Imagery Shows Cyclone Cherono Dwindling Three days of NASA infrared satellite imagery provides a clear picture to forecasters of the effect wind shear has had on former Cyclone Cherono. Wind shear increased near Cyclone Cherono this weeke ... more | .. |
  GPS Mundi Releases Points Of Interest Files For Ten More Major Cities We have all been there: We spend an hour navigating through an unfamiliar city looking for a place, only to find that the information in our trusty GPS is outdated or just plain wrong because it was ... more | .. |
 France fines Google 100,000 euros over Street View France's data privacy regulator said Monday it had imposed a record fine of 100,000 euros ($142,000) on Google for private information collected while compiling its panoramic Street View service. ... more | .. |
 LockMart GPS III Team Completes Key Flight Software Milestone The Lockheed Martin-led team developing the U.S. Air Force's next generation Global Position System, known as GPS III, has successfully completed the program's first major flight software integratio ... more |
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  New Findings On The Developments Of The Earthquake Disaster The earthquake disaster on 11 March 2011 was an event of the century not only for Japan. With a magnitude of Mw = 8.9, it was one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded worldwide. Particularly i ... more | .. |
  Silicon Spin Transistors Heat Up And Spins Last Longer University of Utah researchers built "spintronic" transistors and used them to align the magnetic "spins" of electrons for a record period of time in silicon chips at room temperature. The study is ... more | .. |
  LockMary To Launch DigitalGlobe WorldView-3 Earth Imaging Satellite Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Lockheed Martin, has announced that it has been chosen by DigitalGlobe to launch that company's next-generation, high-res ... more | .. |
  Army Deploying 'Individual Gunshot Detector' U.S. Army forces in Afghanistan will begin receiving the first of more than 13,000 gunshot detection systems for the individual dismounted Soldier later this month, service officials said. "We ... more |
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  DLR Center Takes Over Operation Of The Swedish PRISMA Satellite Mission On 15 March 2011, the German Space Operations Center (GSOC) at the German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen took over operation of the Swedish PRISMA satellite mission. The Swedish Space Corporat ... more | .. |
 National Flooding Exercise Hones Use Of Satellites To Improve Disaster Mitigation Last week a team of space experts led by British company DMCii participated in a national flooding exercise, "Exercise Watermark", to determine how satellite imagery, satellite communications and sa ... more | .. |
 NASA Satellites Show Towering Thunderstorms NASA's Aqua and TRMM satellites are providing data to scientists about the Southern Atlantic Ocean Sub-tropical Storm Arani, a rare occurrence in the southern ocean. Rainfall data and cloud top temp ... more | .. |
NASA Satellite Sees Area Affected By Japan Tsunami A new before-and-after image pair from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft shows a region of Japan's northeastern coast, ... more |
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 Mapping Japan's Changed Landscape From Space Following the massive earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on 11 March, satellite imagery has been vital in providing a clear picture of the extent of devastation to aid the relief effort now under ... more | .. |
 TRMM Satellite Reveals Flooding Rains From Massive East Coast Storm The massive rain storm that stretched from New York to Florida last week dropped some record rainfall and NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite measured that rainfall from spac ... more | .. |
 N. Korea rejects Seoul's plea to stop jamming signals North Korea rejected South Korea's plea on Tuesday to stop beaming signals aimed at disturbing Seoul's military and mobile communications, an official said. ... more | .. |
  Seoul urges Pyongyang to stop jamming South Korea on Tuesday urged communist North Korea to stop disturbing its military and mobile communications, calling alleged jamming attempts "unacceptable." ... more |
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 DLR Releases Satellite Images Of Japanese Disaster Area After the severe earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters' was activated on the morning of the 11 March 2011. All participating institutions were asked t ... more | .. |
 NASA Images Tsunami Impact Across Northeastern Japan The extent of inundation from the destructive and deadly tsunami triggered by the March 11, 2011, magnitude 8.9 earthquake centered off Japan's northeastern coast about 130 kilometers (82 miles) eas ... more | .. |
  Arianespace Moves To New Launcher Designation For Ariane, Soyuz And Vega The launcher components for Arianespace's third Ariane 5 mission of 2011 arrived this week in French Guiana, marking the first step in preparations for a heavy-lift flight with the ST-2 and GSAT-8 t ... more | .. |
 Rayonier's GIS Strengthens Asset Management Capability Rayonier signed an enterprise license agreement (ELA) with Esri that enables the international forest products company to improve land management of its 2.4 million acres of sustainably managed fore ... more |
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  Quake moved Japan by 8 feet: USGS Japan's recent massive earthquake, one of the largest ever recorded, appears to have moved the island by about eight feet (2.4 meters), the US Geological Survey said Saturday. ... more | .. |
 SSTL's European GNSS Payload Passes Design Review Payloads being delivered by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) for Europe's future satellite navigation system have passed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR), having proved to a panel including ... more | .. |
Space Team Improves GPS Capability For Warfighters Joint force warfighters around the globe will soon be able to assess real-time and future GPS accuracy, both where they are and where they're going, with a new capability developed by the 2nd Space ... more | .. |
OSI Geospatial to supply New Zealand navy OSI Geospatial signed a $2 million contract with Siemens to provide an Integrated Bridge System for the New Zealand navy's frigate Platform System Upgrade Program. ... more |
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