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Getting Ready for the Next Big Solar StormHuntsville AL (SPX) Jun 27, 2011 In Sept. 1859, on the eve of a below-average solar cycle, the sun unleashed one of the most powerful storms in centuries. The underlying flare was so unusual, researchers still aren't sure how to categorize it. The blast peppered Earth with the most energetic protons in half-a-millennium, induced electrical currents that set telegraph offices on fire, and sparked Northern Lights over Cuba and Hawaii. This week, officials have gathered at the National Press Club in Washington DC to ask themselves a ... read more |
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  Study Shows Interference with GPS Poses Major Threat to U.S. Economy More than 3.3 million U.S. jobs in agriculture and industries rely heavily on Global Positioning System (GPS) technology and the disruption of interference with GPS posed by LightSquared's planned d ... more | .. |
  DeLorme Unveils Plans for Personal Communicator with Global Satellite Coverage DeLorme has announced the Fall 2011 release of the DeLorme inReach, the first Iridium-based personal communicator to deliver truly global two-way satellite text messaging; delivery confirmations; SO ... more | .. |
  NASA satellite gets 2 tropical cyclones in 1 shot The Northwestern Pacific Ocean is active with two tropical cyclones, Tropical Storm Meari near the Philippines, and Tropical Depression Haima moving over China and now toward Vietnam. NASA's Aqua sa ... more | .. | ||
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 Getting Ready for the Next Big Solar Storm In Sept. 1859, on the eve of a below-average1 solar cycle, the sun unleashed one of the most powerful storms in centuries. The underlying flare was so unusual, researchers still aren't sure how to c ... more | .. |
 Le Bourget contracts complete Galileo network As Europe prepares for October's launch of the first Galileo satellites, a worldwide ground network is being put in place. Contracts signed at the Paris Air and Space Show cover satellite control an ... more | .. |
  Goodrich TERPROM Terrain Referenced Navigation to Equip Airbus A400M Goodrich has been selected by Cassidian (an EADS company) to provide the TERPROM terrain referenced navigation (TRN) system for the Airbus Military A400M versatile airlifter. The system will be prov ... more | .. |
 Paving the Way for Space-Based Air Pollution Sensors Although the nation's air has grown significantly cleaner in recent decades, about 40 percent of Americans - 127 million people - live in counties where pollution levels still regularly exceed natio ... more |
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 Nigeria prepares to launch two earth observation satellites Nigeria has concluded plans to launch into orbit two satellites from Russia on July 7, a top government official with the country's National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) has said. ... more | .. |
 NASA sees Hurricane Beatriz 'wink' on the Mexican coast Hurricane Beatriz is skirting the southwestern Mexican coast and bringing heavy rains and high surf to coastal areas, including Mexico's biggest port. NASA satellite imagery showed that Beatriz seem ... more | .. |
  The end for ATV Johannes Kepler Europe's unmanned ATV space freighter plunged on command into Earth's atmosphere to end its mission as a spectacular shooting star over the southern Pacific Ocean. Contact with the spacecraft was lo ... more | .. |
 Galileo's Soyuz launchers arrive at French Guiana The two Soyuz launchers that will fly the first four satellites of Europe's Galileo navigation system into orbit have arrived at Kourou harbour in French Guiana, completing a journey that took them ... more |
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 Raytheon's First-of-Its-Kind Space-Based Hyperspectral Sensor Marks Second Year on Orbit A groundbreaking space sensor built by Raytheon has completed its second year on orbit, exceeding its design life by 100 percent. The Advanced Responsive, Tactically Effective Military Imaging Senso ... more | .. |
 Cont-Trak offers reliable container tracking via satellite Whether at sea, on rail, stacked or stored, shipping containers can now be tracked worldwide via satellite with Cont-Trak, developed through ESA's telecommunications programme. Field trials ha ... more | .. |
 Landsat 5 Satellite Helps Emergency Managers Fight Largest Fire in Arizona History The largest fire in the history of the state of Arizona continues to burn and emergency managers and responders are using satellite data from a variety of instruments to plan their firefighting cont ... more | .. |
 NASA/NOAA GOES Project Releases 2 Week Movie of Chilean Volcanic Eruption The NASA/NOAA GOES satellite Project released a satellite animation of two-weeks of eruptions from the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano in Chile. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satel ... more |
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 Landsat 5 Satellite Sees Mississippi River Floodwaters Lingering On May 19, 2011, the Mississippi River reached a historic crest at Vicksburg. According to the Advanced Hydrological Prediction Service (AHPS) of the U.S. National Weather Service, the river reached ... more | .. |
 IAI to Unveil its new advanced Medium-weight Laser Guided Bomb Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) will unveil the MLGB, a new advanced Medium-weight Laser Guided Bomb at the upcoming Le Bourget Airshow opens June 20th near Paris. MLGB is a dual mode Laser Guided ... more | .. |
  Thales completes flight demo for automatic landing of rotary wing UAVs Thales has announced that it has successfully achieved, with its partner Boeing, the full automatic landing of a one ton class VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) UAV. The automatic landing was car ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 Completes Captive-Flight Test Series The U.S. Navy completed a series of captive-flight tests on Raytheon's Joint Standoff Weapon C-1, putting the warfighter one step closer to gaining a net-enabled standoff weapon with moving maritime ... more |
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 Earth from Space: A gush of volcanic gas This image shows the huge plume of sulphur dioxide that spewed from Chile's Puyehue-Cordon Caulle Volcanic Complex, which lies in the Andes about 600 km south of Santiago. After lying dormant ... more | .. |
  US, Vietnam in joint call amid China tension The United States and Vietnam on Friday jointly called for freedom of navigation and rejected the use of force in the South China Sea, amid simmering tensions between Beijing and its neighbors. ... more | .. |
 Chilean Volcano Plume Moving Around the World Since its eruption in early June, several NASA satellites have captured images of the ash plume from the eruption of the Chilean Volcano called Puyehue-Cordon Caulle and have tracked it around the w ... more | .. |
  Japan's mega-quake struck in small zone of fault: study The deadly 9.0-magnitude quake that struck off northeastern Japan on March 11 ruptured a relatively small part of a notorious fault that straddles the Pacific seabed, Japanese scientists reported on Wednesday. ... more |
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  BU researcher plays key role in discovery of new type of neutrino oscillation The international T2K collaboration has announced that they have observed an indication of a new type of neutrino transformation or oscillation from a muon neutrino to an electron neutrino. Boston U ... more | .. |
 GMES operations another step closer Today, the European Commission has signed an agreement confirming the transfer of funds to ESA for the initial operations of the space component for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Securit ... more | .. |
  Temperature tracking device for packages may have climate metrology applications National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers are working to reduce the uncertainty associated with climate-change measurements using a mobile temperature-sensing technology made ... more | .. |
  Rio Tinto to boost Pilbara iron ore Mining giant Rio Tinto will accelerate iron ore expansion in the Pilbara region of Western Australia with a $676 million investment, the company announced. ... more |
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 Scientists predict rare 'hibernation' of sunspots US scientists say the familiar sunspot cycle seems to be entering a hibernation period unseen since the 17th century, a pattern that could have a slight cooling effect on global temperatures. ... more | .. |
 Canadian Microbolometer Sensor Focusing on Oceans, Fires and Volcanoes Canada's Earth Observation Program reached new heights Friday with the successful launch of the 4th Argentinian Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas (SAC-D) aboard a Delta II rocket. The New I ... more | .. |
 Satellite maps useful to track habitat Satellite imagery can be used to quickly map indirect effects of the predator-prey relationship on the animals' habitats, an Australian researcher says. ... more | .. |
Scientists predict rare 'hibernation' of sunspots For years, scientists have been predicting the Sun would by around 2012 move into solar maximum, a period of intense flares and sunspot activity, but lately a curious calm has suggested quite the opposite. ... more |
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