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June 09, 2011
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Helping shape space-based technology policies
Fort Collins CO (SPX) Jun 09, 2011
A Colorado State University professor known as an international expert in the use of GPS in agriculture has been named to a federal panel that helps shape national policy on space-based technologies. Rajiv Khosla, CSU professor of precision agriculture, is a new member of the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Advisory Board, a federal advisory committee established by presidential directive and sponsored by NASA. He will attend a meeting of the advisory board in Washington, D ... read more

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EARTH OBSERVATION

Hot Towers in First Tropical Depression of the Eastern Pacific
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite called TRMM has the ability to see rainfall rates and heights of thunderstorm clouds within a tropical cyclone, and data from the satellite confirme ... more
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WATER WORLD

NASA Goes Below the Surface to Understand Salinity
When NASA's Aquarius mission launches this week, its radiometer instruments will take a "skin" reading of the oceans' salt content at the surface. From these data of salinity in the top 0.4 inch (1 ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Aquarius to Study the Power of Sea Salt
A new observatory is about to leave Earth to map a powerful compound of global importance: Common everyday sea salt. Researchers suspect that the salinity of Earth's oceans has far-reaching effects ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Three Satellites See Eruption of Puyehue-Cordon Volcano from Space
NASA's Terra Satellite, the GOES-13 and GOES-11 satellites all captured images of the ash plume from southern Chile's Puyehue-Cordon Volcano this week. The volcano is located in Puyehue National Par ... more
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NUKEWARS

GPS Stations Can Detect Clandestine Nuclear Tests
At the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) meeting this week, American researchers are unveiling a new tool for detecting illegal nuclear explosions: the Earth's global positi ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

New NASA Map Reveals Tropical Forest Carbon Storage
A NASA-led research team has used a variety of NASA satellite data to create the most precise map ever produced depicting the amount and location of carbon stored in Earth's tropical forests. The da ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Satellite and Radar Data Reveal Damage Track of Alabama Tornadic Thunderstorms
This image shows the radar reflectivity from the National Weather Service Doppler Radar in Birmingham, Ala. at 5:10 p.m. CDT on April 27, 2011, as a supercell thunderstorm moved across the city. ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Industry Helps Engineering Students Reanimate Robotic Mine Vehicles
In just 10 weeks, a group of University of Arizona engineering students took five crates of surplus hardware and two heavy-duty test vehicles, which didn't run, and mixed them with youthful enthusia ... more
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GPS NEWS

Russia plans to launch six Glonass satellites in 2011
Russian Space Agency Roscosmos plans to launch five Glonass-M satellites and one Glonass-K satellite in 2011, Roscosmos' deputy chief Anatoly Shilov said Wednesday. The first launch of the Glo ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Workshop Preps Educators to Train Next-Gen Carbon Researchers
A group of science educators stand outside on a sunny day at NASA's Langley Research Center and listen to Sarah Silverberg, a GLOBE project coordinator and trainer, talk about the parts of a compass ... more
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GPS NEWS

India plans to make GPS more accurate with GAGAN
The GPS Aided Geo Augmented Navigation or GPS and Geo Augmented Navigation system (GAGAN) is a planned implementation of a regional Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS) by the Indian governmen ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

New NASA Salt Mapper to Spice Up Climate Forecasts
Salt is essential to human life. Most people don't know, however, that salt - in a form nearly the same as the simple table variety - is just as essential to Earth's ocean, serving as a critical dri ... more
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FLORA AND FAUNA

Rare tiger killed in Nepal
A rare wild tiger, nursed back to health by Nepalese vets after being injured, has been killed by poachers, a wildlife official said on Friday. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

NASA sees a 14-mile-wide eye and powerful Super Typhoon Songda
Typhoon Songda became a Super Typhoon in the evening on May 26, 2011 (Eastern Daylight Time) was it reached a Category 5 status on the Saffir-Simpson Scale. NASA satellite data shows that the monste ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Foreign NGO says satellite images indicate war crimes in Sudan's Abyei
An international non- governmental organization monitoring Sudanese air space on Wednesday said satellite photos showed evidence of war crimes committed at Sudan's disputed oil-rich area of Abyei, w ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

For Aquarius, Sampling Seas No 'Grain of Salt' Task
The breakthrough moment for oceanographer Gary Lagerloef, the principal investigator for NASA's new Aquarius mission, came in 1991. That's when he knew it would be possible to make precise measureme ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Satellite observations show potential to improve ash cloud forecasts
Predicting the exact dispersal of a volcanic ash cloud is never going to be easy. However, satellite data are showing that the eruption from Iceland's Grimsvotn volcano this week was unlikely to hav ... more
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TECH SPACE

Success of GSAT-8 and Future of India's Space Programme
India's advanced communication geostationary satellite, GSAT-8, was successfully launched on May 21, 2011. The satellite was put in orbit from French Guiana by the Ariane-V launch vehicle. Indian Sp ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

NASA satellite helps find 17 Egypt pyramids
Archaeologists have uncovered as many as 17 buried pyramids in Egypt with the help of NASA satellite imagery, according to a documentary to be aired by the BBC on Monday. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

GMES Masters seeks innovative uses for Earth observation data
Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs Martin Zeil joined with ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain in launching the GMES Masters competition, seeking out innovative commercial uses of Earth obs ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

GOES-13 Satellite Video Close-Up of Deadly Joplin, Missouri Tornado
The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite called GOES-13 provides forecasters with continuous visible and infrared imagery of weather systems across the U.S. and a new movie from the NAS ... more
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GPS NEWS

EU to launch Galileo satellites this fall
Backed by Russia, the Europeans will launch two of their Galileo global positioning satellites into space in October, the European Commission said this week. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Satellites reveal 'lost' Egyptian pyramids
A satellite survey of Egypt has revealed 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements in infrared images that can detect underground structures, scientists say. ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Novel man-made material could facilitate wireless power
Electrical engineers at Duke University have determined that unique man-made materials should theoretically make it possible to improve the power transfer to small devices, such as laptops or cell p ... more
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GPS NEWS

Galileo: Europe prepares for October launch
The European Space Agency, Arianespace and the European Commission has announced that the launch of the first two satellites of Europe's global navigation satellite system is planned to take place o ... more
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RUSSIAN SPACE

Russia opens negligence case over loss of Glonass satellites
Russian prosecutors have opened a criminal case on charges of negligence that led to the loss of three Glonass satellites last year, the Prosecutor General's Office said on Monday. The satelli ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Satellites for Asia and India are orbited on Arianespace's third Ariane 5 mission of 2011
The 44th consecutive successful Ariane 5 flight has further underscored the flexibility and performance of this workhorse launch system - orbiting a pair of telecommunications spacecraft to serve on ... more
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GPS NEWS

EU announces launch date for first Galileo satellites
The European Union announced Monday it will launch the first two satellites in its long-delayed and hugely over-budget Galileo navigation system from French Guiana on October 20. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Russia sends two Soyuz carrier rockets to French Guiana
Two Russian Soyuz-ST carrier rockets are on the way from Samara to St. Petersburg to be shipped to French Guiana for future launches from the Kourou space center, the Progress design bureau said. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Satellites monitor Icelandic ash plume
As Iceland's Grimsvotn volcano spews ash high into the atmosphere, satellite observations are providing essential information to advisory centres assessing the possible hazards to aviation. Th ... more
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MILTECH

Northrop Grumman to Develop New Micro Gyro Technology for DARPA
Northrop Grumman, in partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been selected to develop a new type of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) gyroscope technology for the Defense Advan ... more
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