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Nigerian-built satellite acquires first image just days after launchGuildford UK (SPX) Aug 30, 2011 The Nigerian-built satellite, NigeriaSat-X, has acquired its first satellite image just three days after the successful launch on 17th August. Revealing buildings and the landscape surrounding the city of Auckland, New Zealand, this image demonstrates that the satellite's enhanced 22m wide-area multi-spectral imagery for mapping, agricultural monitoring and disaster relief programmes works well. NigeriaSat-X was built by engineers from Nigeria's National Space Research and Development Agency ... read more |
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  Lost Russian satellite poses threat to space navigation The Russian heavy satellite Express-AM4 lost on Aug. 18 might pose a threat to other space vehicles, local media reported Friday. Citing a source in the space industry, Interfex news agency sa ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Business Unit Astro Aerospace Delivers Antennas to Lockheed Martin for GPS III Astro Aerospace, a strategic business unit of Northrop Grumman, has delivered 16 self-deploying, monopole JIB antennas for the first two next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS III) satellite ... more | .. |
  Russia enters the era of space realism The recent string of spaceflight accidents in Russia is the symptom of a deep crisis in the nation's aerospace industry. Experts say it's time to tone down the rhetoric about Russia being a "great s ... more | .. |
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 Roscosmos smarting after Progress loss Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 29, 2011 Heads are expected to roll in Russia's space industry in the wake of the recent failures, above all the August 24 incident when the cargo spaceship Progress M-12M ... more | .. |
 "Progress's" misfortune doesn't change Russia's space plans The Russian, the US, the European, the Canadian and the Japanese space agencies, who are partners in using the International Space Station, are now jointly analyzing the reasons for the crash of the ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Ground System Passes Launch Test for Critical Polar Orbiting Satellite The Raytheon developed Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System has achieved a major milestone on the road to NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) launch with the successful completion o ... more | .. |
  New Zealand's lost penguin heads home Fattened up on a diet of "fish milkshakes" and escorted by his own personal veterinary team, the world's most famous penguin, Happy Feet, sets sail Monday for the icy waters he calls home. ... more |
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  Glonass-M satellite launch postponed for additional check The launch of the Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket with the Glonass-M navigation satellite was postponed for an additional equipment check, Russia's Space Forces commander said on Thursday. The launc ... more | .. |
 Google plots Hurricane Irene with online map Internet giant Google has rolled out an online map tracking the path of Hurricane Irene and providing other useful information about the storm headed for the US east coast. ... more | .. |
  First Soyuz launch from Kourou to go ahead: Arianespace The maiden flight of a Soyuz from Europe's space base will go ahead as scheduled on October 20, as it is a different version from the rocket involved in Wednesday's launch failure by Russia, Arianespace said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Russia's recent catalogue of space disasters The failed launch of the unmanned Progress cargo space craft which crashed into Earth instead of delivering supplies to the ISS was the latest in a spate of mishaps in the Russian space programme. ... more |
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 Spaceship crash exposes Russia's systemic failures: experts The crash landing of an unmanned Russian spaceship bound for the International Space Station (ISS) exposed a systemic lack of proper checks and a dearth of qualified staff, experts said. ... more | .. |
  Human gait could soon power portable electronics If the vision of Tom Krupenkin and J. Ashley Taylor comes to fruition, one day soon your cellphone - or just about any other portable electronic device - could be powered by simply taking a walk. ... more | .. |
 TRMM gets a look at Irene, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite has been busy measuring rainfall within Hurricane Irene, and forecasts call for between 5 and 10 inches in the southeastern and central Bahamas and ... more | .. |
 Elbit To Supply Asian Countries with Electro-Optical Payloads for Maritime Applications Elbit Systems Ltd.has been awarded contracts by several customers in Asia to supply many dozens of observation systems for maritime patrol aircraft, vessels and observation towers. The total value o ... more |
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Solar-driven ionosphere charges may nudge stressed faults toward rupture
Stable black carbon in mangrove soils boosts coastal climate role
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 NASA Satellites Detect Pothole on Road to Higher Seas Like mercury in a thermometer, ocean waters expand as they warm. This, along with melting glaciers and ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, drives sea levels higher over the long term. For the pa ... more | .. |
 Russian spaceship crashes back to Earth An unmanned Russian spaceship with tonnes of cargo for the International Space Station crashed into Siberia shortly after blast-off Wednesday in the latest blow to the country's embattled space programme. ... more | .. |
 Russia grounds rockets after launch failure Russia on Tuesday grounded its workhorse Proton-M rockets after the latest in a string of launch mishaps put a prized telecommunications satellite into the wrong orbit. ... more | .. |
 NASA Picks Three Proposals for Flight Demonstration NASA has selected three proposals, including one from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., as Technology Demonstration Missions to transform space communications, deep space navigat ... more |
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 e2v supply the imaging sensor focal plane to SSTL UK for the NigeriaSat-2 Earth observation satellite On 17th August 2011, e2v high performance image sensors were launched into space on NigeriaSat-2, the Earth observation satellite which has been developed for the National Space Research and Develop ... more | .. |
  NIST tests help ensure reliable wireless alarm beacons for first responders Wireless emergency safety equipment could save lives-if signals are transmitted reliably. But few performance standards exist. Now, tests at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ... more | .. |
 Researchers Improving GPS Accuracy In The Third Dimension Researchers who are working to fix global positioning system (GPS) errors have devised software to take a more accurate measurement of altitude - particularly in mountainous areas. The softwar ... more | .. |
  Viper Strikes With Moving Target Capability Being Added to KC-130J Arsenal Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract for additional Viper Strikes munitions to equip the U.S. Marine Corps Harvest Hawk aircraft and bring greater utility to the Marines' KC-130J refueling a ... more |
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AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners
Ancient guano drove Chincha coastal power
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 Software said to improve GPS accuracy U.S. researchers working on the accuracy of GPS location say they have set their sights on the third dimension with software to improve altitude measurements. ... more | .. |
 NASA Research Leads to First Complete Map of Antarctic Ice Flow NASA-funded researchers have created the first complete map of the speed and direction of ice flow in Antarctica. The map, which shows glaciers flowing thousands of miles from the continent's deep i ... more | .. |
 Airborne Sensor Helps Firefighters Battle Flames As the summer blazes on, NASA-developed infrared imaging technology will once again be used to support wildfire incident commanders in California. Beginning in September and continuing through ... more | .. |
 Watching the ice sheet of Antarctica flow A huge network of glaciers, carrying ice thousands of kilometres across Antarctica, has been discovered as a result of space agencies' efforts to focus their satellites on Earth's icy regions during ... more |
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 ASA Search and Rescue Software Used To Locate Capsized Boat Off Ireland SARMAP, a search and rescue mapping software solution developed by ASA (Applied Science Associates, Inc.), a Rhode Island-based science and technology solutions company, was instrumental in the effo ... more | .. |
 Google Maps taking armchair explorers to the Amazon Two women washed clothes in the dark water of the Rio Negro as a boat glided past with a camera-laden Google tricycle strapped to the roof, destined to give the world a window into the Amazon rain forest. ... more | .. |
SSTL's very high resolution satellite NigeriaSat-2 prepares for launch The latest Earth observation satellite from UK small satellite manufacturer SSTL has successfully completed pre-launch tests and has been integrated with a Dnepr launch vehicle. NigeriaSat-2, one of ... more | .. |
 SSTL successfully launches two further Earth observation satellites SSTL's NigeriaSat-2 and NigeriaSat-X satellites were successfully launched Wednesday at 07:12:20 UTC onboard a Dnepr rocket from Yasny in southern Russia. The highly advanced Earth observation satel ... more |
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