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Report Provides NASA With Direction For Next 10 Years Of Space ResearchColumbia MO (SPX) Apr 13, 2011 During the past 60 years, humans have built rockets, walked on the moon and explored the outer reaches of space with probes and telescopes. During these trips in space, research has been conducted to learn more about life and space. Recently, a group of prominent researchers from across the country published a report through the National Academy of Sciences that is intended as a guide as NASA plans the next 10 years of research in space. Rob Duncan, the University of Missouri Vice Chancellor for R ... read more |
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  Arctic Ozone Loss Recent observations from satellites and ground stations suggest that atmospheric ozone levels for March in the Arctic were approaching the lowest levels in the modern instrumental era. What those re ... more | .. |
  Wing Unveils New Mission, Vision Statements And Priorities The 50th Space Wing has a new mission. No not a new satellite this time, but a new mission statement along with a new vision statement. Col. Wayne Monteith, 50 SW commander, unveiled the new stateme ... more | .. |
  NASA's JWST Marks Milestone With Completion Of Huge Assembly Stand For Flight Optics A giant structural steel frame used to assemble the eye of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been completed by Northrop Grumman teammate ITT at a facility in Syracuse, N.Y. Northrop Grumman is l ... more | .. | ||
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  China launches navigation satellite China on Sunday launched its eighth satellite orbiter as part of its navigation and positioning network, state media reported. ... more | .. |
 China Maps The World With Beidou Early Sunday, China successfully launched its eighth orbiter of the Beidou system. It marks the establishment of a basic system for the navigation and positioning network. But how will the system pa ... more | .. |
  Shootingstars Provide Clues To Likely Response Of Plants To Global Warming Many scientists are concerned that plant and animal species may face extinction due to global warming, but biologists at Washington University in St. Louis are trying to predict exactly what will ha ... more | .. |
 Pulling Back The Sheets Melting ice sheets from Greenland and Antarctica has long been tied to rising sea levels. But these two sources are outpacing all others - including mountain glaciers and ice caps - to become the do ... more |
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 Joint Polar Satellite System Program And The US Budget While our politicians are arguing over a FY 2011 budget that should have been passed by last September, many space programs of vital national interest are being delayed, and their futures are coming ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Navigation Capabilities Exceed Requirements For Automated Aerial Refueling Northrop Grumman's Relative Navigation system exceeded accuracy requirements during recent flight tests for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Automated Aerial Refueling (AAR) program. The tes ... more | .. |
 GPS to protect Bulgarian locomotives from fuel thefts Bulgaria's national railway company will track its diesel locomotives via GPS from now on to combat increasing thefts of fuel, Transport Minister Alexander Tsvetkov said Friday. ... more |
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  Russian Space Agency Events Unchanged As Chief's Retirement Announced Russian Federal Space Agency head Anatoly Perminov said on Wednesday the agency's scheduled events dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Yury Gagarin's historic first space flight will go ahead as pl ... more | .. |
 For NASA's Aquarius, Quest For Salt A Global Endeavor With more than a few stamps on its passport, NASA's Aquarius instrument on the Argentinian Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas (SAC)-D spacecraft will soon embark on its space mission to "taste" Ea ... more | .. |
 3-D map of Philippines to help combat disasters President Benigno Aquino said Friday he plans to have a 3-D map of the Philippine archipelago created as part of an effort to guard against disasters. ... more | .. |
 First Consistent Geological Interpretation Of East Africa Rift System Astrium GEO-Information Services has completed a geological interpretation study of the East Africa Rift System (EARS) and the surrounding area that is increasingly becoming an exploration hotspot f ... more |
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  A New Space Policy For Europe Improving the safety and daily lives of European citizens thanks to radio navigation, guiding tractors by satellite for high-yield crops, optimizing response to humanitarian crisis... This is not sc ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 Make Your Satnav Idea A Reality 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 cent ... more | .. |
  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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 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 | .. |
 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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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