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April 06, 2011
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Make Your Satnav Idea A Reality
Paris, France (ESA) Apr 05, 2011
Submit a great satnav idea and win a prize with ESA support to create your own business. Previous winning ideas today guide visitors around exhibition centres, help position offshore ships with centimetre accuracy and spot pollution in waterways. The eighth European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) began on 1 April. Inventors and entrepreneurs can propose their ideas on how to use satellite navigation technology in new applications on Earth. The winners will get the chance to turn the ... read more

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India's GSAT-8 Delivered To French Guiana
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 ... more
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MILTECH

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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EARTH OBSERVATION

NASA Airborne Radar Set To Image Hawaiian Volcano
The Kilauea volcano that recently erupted on the Big Island of Hawaii will be the target for a NASA study to help scientists better understand processes occurring under Earth's surface. A NASA ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

SeaWiFS' Thirteen Years Of Observing Our Home Planet
Mary Cleave left the NASA astronaut corps in the early 1990s to make a rare jump from human spaceflight to Earth science. She was going to work on an upcoming mission to measure gradations in ocean ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Global Hawks Mark Year Of Science Flights
This week marks the first anniversary of the NASA Global Hawk project's initial science mission. On April 7, 2010, Global Hawk No. 872 took off from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards A ... more
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SHAKE AND BLOW

Oregon volcano to be monitored
The U.S. Geological Survey says it wants to monitor a volcano in Eastern Oregon to record any future rumblings of activity as soon as possible. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Salt-Seeking Spacecraft Arrives At Launch Site
An international spacecraft that will take NASA's first space-based measurements of ocean surface salinity has arrived at its launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The Aquarius/SAC ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

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
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EARTH OBSERVATION

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
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EARTH OBSERVATION

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
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EARTH OBSERVATION

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
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EARTH OBSERVATION

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
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EARTH OBSERVATION

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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EARTH OBSERVATION

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
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STATION NEWS

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
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GPS NEWS

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
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GPS NEWS

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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APPOINTMENTS

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
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GPS NEWS

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
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EARTH OBSERVATION

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
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EARTH OBSERVATION

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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EARTH OBSERVATION

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
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EPIDEMICS

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
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EARTH OBSERVATION

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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EARTH OBSERVATION

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 SPACE

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
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EARTH OBSERVATION

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
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EARTH OBSERVATION

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
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GPS NEWS

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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EARTH OBSERVATION

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
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GPS NEWS

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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