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July 15, 2011
EARTH OBSERVATION
Tsunami airglow signature could lead to early detection system
Chicago IL (SPX) Jul 15, 2011
Researchers at the University of Illinois have become the first to record an airglow signature in the upper atmosphere produced by a tsunami using a camera system based in Maui, Hawaii. The signature, caused by the March 11 earthquake that devastated Japan, was observed in an airglow layer 250 kilometers above the earth's surface. It preceded the tsunami by one hour, suggesting that the technology could be used as an early-warning system in the future. The findings were recently published in the p ... read more

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GPS NEWS

Boeing: 2nd Boeing GPS IIF Satellite Ready for Launch from Cape Canaveral
Boeing has announced that the second of 12 GPS IIF satellites it is building for the U.S. Air Force has successfully completed prelaunch testing. GPS IIF-2 is ready for launch on July 15 aboard a Un ... more
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GPS NEWS

Apple makes first S. Korea payout over tracking
US technology giant Apple said Thursday it had made its first compensation payment in South Korea over a feature on its iPhone that can track the location of users. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Lockheed Martin and Esri Sign Partnership Towards On-Demand Geospatial Apps and Services
Lockheed Martin and Esri will collaborate on technologies to put online geospatial apps and services in the hands of more military, intelligence, homeland security and emergency response users world ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Underwater Antarctic Volcanoes
Scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have discovered previously unknown volcanoes in the ocean waters around the remote South Sandwich Islands. Using ship-borne sea-floor mapping technolog ... more
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT

International Experts Blend Space Technologies and Crowdsourcing to Enhance Disaster Management Tools
Space-based technologies - from Earth remote sensing spacecraft to global navigation and telecommunications satellites - are potent tools in both shaping disaster preparedness and in dealing with th ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Device captures ambient electromagnetic energy to drive small electronic devices
Researchers have discovered a way to capture and harness energy transmitted by such sources as radio and television transmitters, cell phone networks and satellite communications systems. By scaveng ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

ERS exits with final focus on changing glaciers
Some of the last images from ESA's ERS-2 satellite have revealed rapidly changing glacial features in Greenland. In its final days, the veteran satellite gave us frequent views of the Kangerdlugssua ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Astrium to build Sentinel-4 atmospheric sensors
ESA has awarded a contract worth almost 150 million euro to Astrium to develop and build two satellite sensors that will monitor Earth's atmosphere as part of Europe's Global Monitoring for Environm ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Dr VS Hegde Appointed as Chairman and Managing Director of Antrix Corporation Limited
Dr VS Hegde, Outstanding Scientist and Scientific Secretary, ISRO has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Antrix Corporation Limited of the Department of Space. Dr Hegde, a ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

45th Space Wing Supports Successful Final Shuttle Launch
The U.S. Air Force's 45th Space Wing provided flawless Eastern Range support for NASA's successful launch of the final flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis Friday and the final Space Shuttle flight in h ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

Shuttle Conclusion Leaves a Universe of Opportunities Open for DUNMORE
As the space shuttle Atlantis, carrying DUNMORE Corporation's Multi-Layer Insulation (MLI) materials, completes the last journey of the 30-year program, DUNMORE is looking forward to a growing range ... more
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GPS NEWS

A new algorithm could help prevent midair collisions
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has mandated that by 2020, all commercial aircraft - and small aircraft flying near most airports - must be equipped with a new tracking system that broadca ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

NASA Flies Greenhouse Gas Mission Over Nevada Salt Flat
Scientists from NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., joined a multi-institute team of researchers June 17-27, 2011, to investigate carbon dioxide and methane gas emissions from a dry ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

NASA Flies Greenhouse Gas Mission Over Nevada Salt Flat
Scientists from NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., joined a multi-institute team of researchers June 17-27, 2011, to investigate carbon dioxide and methane gas emissions from a dry ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Space technology 'on the NHS' and easier access to space
New space technologies that could benefit the NHS, and the first step in the reduction of insurance costs for satellite operators were the topics of discussion Monday July 4 when Minister for Univer ... more
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AEROSPACE

Northrop Grumman to Provide Navigation Equipment for Modernisation of India Air Field Infrastructure Program
Northrop Grumman's Europe-based air traffic management subsidiary, Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems is providing a range of navigation equipment including Instrument Landing Systems (ILS) and Doppl ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Sudanese deployments tracked from space
Sudan's ongoing civil conflicts are being monitored from space. ... more
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GPS NEWS

LOCiMOBILE GPS Tracking Apps Cross over 1 Million users in 116 countries
GTX has announced its LOCiMOBILE subsidiary's GPS Tracking Apps crossed over 1 Million downloads with users in 116 countries and continues to be on the top charts of iTunes and Android market place. ... more
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MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS

Track24 Defence releases SCC Titan
Track24 Defence, the commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) blue force and blue personnel tracking (BFT/BPT) specialist, has unveiled SCC Titan, its new turnkey situational command and control (SCC) soluti ... more
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GPS NEWS

GPS IIIB Satellites to Add Critical New Capabilities
Lockheed Martin has completed on-schedule a System Design Review (SDR) for the Global Positioning System (GPS) IIIB satellite increment under the U.S. Air Force's next generation GPS III program. ... more
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MISSILE NEWS

Raytheon UK Awarded Four-Year Support Contract for U.K. Paveway
Raytheon UK has been awarded a 10 million pounds Sterling (approximately $16 million), four-year contract to provide continued in-service support for both current and legacy U.K. Paveway Weapon Syst ... more
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GPS NEWS

AI Solutions to Assist Air Force with GPS Satellite Positioning Data and Analyzing GPS Anomalies
a.i. solutions is part of a team of companies awarded an Air Force contract to provide professional engineering and communications services in support of the U.S. Global Positioning Systems Operatio ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

DLR scientists support expedition with a highly accurate 3D model of mountain
Considered one of the most beautiful mountains in the world and, at 8000 metres high, the most difficult to climb, K2 lies on the border between Pakistan and China. For scientists at the German Aero ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Pioneering ERS environment satellite retires
After 16 years spent gathering a wealth of data that has revolutionised our understanding of Earth, ESA's veteran ERS-2 satellite is being retired. This pioneering mission has not only advanced scie ... more
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BLUE SKY

Sounding rockets study how winds in space drive currents in the upper atmosphere
Some 50 miles up in the sky begins a dynamic region of the atmosphere known as the ionosphere. The region is filled with charged particles created by extreme ultraviolet radiation from the sun. ... more
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TECH SPACE

Lockheed Martin Team Completes GeoEye-2 Design Phase Early
The Lockheed Martin team developing GeoEye's next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite, known as GeoEye-2, has successfully completed the Space System Critical Design Review (CDR) two ... more
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SPACEMART

LockMart CommSat Ready For Launch For Japanese Customers
The BSAT-3c/JCSAT-110R broadcasting and telecommunications satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin for the Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) and SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation ... more
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WATER WORLD

Kenya project: making safer water to sell carbon credits
To protect the environment and improve the health of four million people while making a profit is the goal of a Swiss-based company distributing water filters and aiming to sell carbon credits. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

La Nina's Exit Leaves Climate Forecasts in Limbo
It's what Bill Patzert, a climatologist and oceanographer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., likes to call a "La Nada" - that puzzling period between cycles of the El Nino-Sout ... more
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MILTECH

US Army Awards Raytheon contract to Complete Excalibur Ib Development
The U.S. Army awarded Raytheon a $36 million contract for the final phase of the Excalibur Ib development program. This phase concludes with warfighter tests and will qualify Excalibur Ib for fieldi ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Getting Ready for the Next Big Solar Storm
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 ca ... more
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