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India's GSAT-8 Delivered To French GuianaKourou, French Guiana (SPX) Apr 05, 2011 A dual-purpose Indian satellite to be orbited on another of Arianespace's Ariane 5 missions during 2011 arrived in French Guiana today. GSAT-8 - which also is known by the INSAT-4G designation - was delivered to Rochambeau International Airport near the capital city of Cayenne, arriving aboard a chartered Antonov An-124 cargo jetliner. This satellite is fitted with 18 Ku-band transponders for telecommunications duties, and also carries a navigation payload called GAGAN (GPS Aided Geo Augment ... read more |
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  Record Loss Of Ozone Over Arctic ESA's Envisat satellite has measured record low levels of ozone over the Euro-Atlantic sector of the northern hemisphere during March. This record low was caused by unusually strong winds, known as ... more | .. |
 Response To Japan's Disaster Relief Efforts When a crisis occurs on the scale of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, we all want to help. We thought you might like to know that GeoEye has been supporting the relief efforts by pr ... more | .. |
  Picatinny Fields First Precision-Guided Mortars To Troops In Afghanistan This month, U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan received 120mm GPS-guided mortar precision capability. The Program Executive Office for Ammunition fielded Accelerated Precision Mortar Initiative cartridges ... more | .. | ||
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 Arctic Ice Gets A Check Up Scientists tracking the annual maximum extent of Arctic sea ice said that 2011 was among the lowest ice extents measured since satellites began collecting the data in 1979. Using satellites to track ... more | .. |
 RIT Researchers Help Map Tsunami And Earthquake Damage In Japan Japan needs maps. Not just any kind-detailed informational maps georegistered with latitude and longitude and annotated with simple, self-evident details: this bridge is out, this port is damaged, t ... more | .. |
 Earth Movements From Japan Earthquake Seen From Space Satellite images have been essential for helping relief efforts in Japan following the massive quake that struck on 11 March. Now scientists are using ESA's space radars to improve our understanding ... more | .. |
 Google's citizen cartographers map out the world Google on Thursday revealed that an army of citizen cartographers is behind its widely used mapping service, helping the Internet search giant chart the world, including often inaccessible places. ... more |
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 NASA Satellites Detect Extensive Drought Impact On Amazon A new NASA-funded study has revealed widespread reductions in the greenness of the forests in the vast Amazon basin in South America caused by the record-breaking drought of 2010. "The greenne ... more | .. |
  Unique Aerospace Invention Ready For Debut The first Reentry Breakup Recorder (REBR), an instrument designed and constructed by engineers at The Aerospace Corporation, is set to plunge to Earth on March 29, shortly after 7 p.m. Two REB ... more | .. |
  Galileo Labs: Better Positioning With Concept Final burst for the European satellite navigation system Galileo - the first satellites are to be in position in the year 2012 and start their work. Fraunhofer Galileo Labs are showcasing the first ... more | .. |
 GPS Study Shows Wolves More Reliant On A Cattle Diet Cattle ranchers in southwestern Alberta have suspected it for a long time and now, GPS tracking equipment confirms it: wolf packs in the area are making cow meat a substantial part of their diets. ... more |
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  Northrop Grumman Appoints David Ryan VP/GM Intelligence Systems Division Northrop Grumman has named David Ryan vice president and general manager of its Intelligence Systems Division, one of five divisions within the company's Information Systems sector. He reports to Li ... more | .. |
 Compact-Sized GLONASS/GPS Receiver SkyTraq introduces a compact 25mmx25mm, high-performance low-power GLONASS/GPS receiver. It is compatible to a popular 25mmx25mm-sized GPS receiver model, user can use it as direct drop-in rep ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Against The Tide: Currents Keep Dolphins Apart 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 Ind ... more |
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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
  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 |
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 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 | .. |
  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 |
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