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Successful launch for Europe's satellite navigation systemLondon UK (SPX) Oct 24, 2011 Europe's first two fully operational Galileo satellites were successfully launched October 20 2011 from the European spaceport in French Guiana, South America. The satellite payloads were built in the UK by Astrium and will test the system's communication networks before becoming part of the final Galileo system. Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts said: "Today's launch marks an important milestone for the Galileo programme. It is testament to the continued success of ... read more |
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 Russia to launch four Glonass satellites in November Russia is planning to add four Glonass navigation satellites to its orbital grouping in November. Three Glonass-M satellites will be launched on November 4 aboard a Proton-M carrier rocket fro ... more | .. |
 One Soyuz launcher, two Galileo satellites, three successes for Europe The first pair of satellites for Europe's Galileo global navigation satellite system has been lofted into orbit by the first Russian Soyuz vehicle ever launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Gui ... more | .. |
  Marines use Excalibur to limit collateral damage in Afghanistan The U.S. Marine Corps issued an urgent operational need for 1,037 Raytheon 155 mm Excalibur extended range, precision-guided artillery projectiles for use in Afghanistan. Successfully fielded ... more | .. |
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  Lockheed Martin Begins GeoEye-2 Satellite Integration Lockheed Martin has announced that it will begin integration of GeoEye's next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite, known as GeoEye-2, with the planned delivery of its integrated prop ... more | .. |
  Purdue leads national earthquake program blanketing Indiana with seismic stations Seismic equipment is being installed throughout Indiana as part of a national program to better understand how and why earthquakes and volcanic events occur, and Purdue University professors and stu ... more | .. |
 GPS shoes for Alzheimer's patients to hit US The first shoes with built-in GPS devices - to help track down dementia-suffering seniors who wander off and get lost - are set to hit the US market this month, the manufacturer says. ... more | .. |
 Soyuz places Galileo satellites in orbit - mission control A Russian rocket on Friday placed in orbit the first two satellites in Europe's Galileo geopositioning system after its maiden launch from Europe's space base, mission controllers said. ... more |
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  Clinton warns Iran not to 'miscalculate' over Iraq Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Iran on Sunday not to "miscalculate" in Iraq, saying the US military presence in the region would remain strong after the withdrawal of all American combat forces at the end of the year. ... more | .. |
 Better use of Global Geospatial Information for Solving Development Challenges Representatives from 90 United Nations Member States and more than 50 international and civil society organizations and private sector entities will gather in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from 23 to 27 ... more | .. |
  Boeing Delivers 50,000th CSEL Search and Rescue Communications System The Boeing Company has delivered the 50,000th Combat Survivor Evader Locator (CSEL) combat search and rescue communications system to the U.S. joint services. The expanded use of this system w ... more | .. |
  Final checks for first Soyuz launch from Kourou Launch directors on Thursday were running through the last checks for the maiden liftoff of Soyuz, the legendary Soviet-Russian rocket, from Europe's base in French Guiana. ... more |
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 Russia surprised as Apple uses Glonass in new iPhone The secret is out and making Russia proud: pop culture and geek tech icon Apple has picked Russia's Glonass navigation system to run alongside GPS in its iPhone 4S models that hit stores this month. ... more | .. |
 GIS Technology Plays Critical Role to Aid Joplin Tornado Survivors In disasters, geographic information systems (GIS) technology aids survivors and facilitates city reconstruction. According to Gabriel Schmidbauer, GIS professor at American Sentinel University, GIS ... more | .. |
  Google Earth typhoid maps reveal secrets of disease outbreaks In the mid-nineteenth century, John Snow mapped cases of cholera in Soho, London, and traced the source of the outbreak to a contaminated water pump. Now, in a twenty-first century equivalent, scien ... more | .. |
 NASA, Japan Release Improved Topographic Map of Earth NASA and Japan released a significantly improved version of the most complete digital topographic map of Earth on Monday, produced with detailed measurements from NASA's Terra spacecraft. The ... more |
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 NASA Readies New Type of Earth-Observing Satellite for Launch NASA is planning an Oct. 27 launch of the first Earth-observing satellite to measure both global climate changes and key weather variables. The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Sate ... more | .. |
 NASA postpones climate satellite launch to Oct 28 NASA on Wednesday set October 28 for its planned launch of a satellite to help weather forecasters predict extreme storms and offer scientists a better view of climate change. ... more | .. |
  US rivers and streams saturated with carbon Rivers and streams in the United States are releasing enough carbon into the atmosphere to fuel 3.4 million car trips to the moon, according to Yale researchers in Nature Geoscience. Their findings ... more | .. |
 Galileo - keeping time with atomic clocks An equation with four unknowns - at least, that is how satellite navigation is summarised by Walter Paffgen, Managing Director of the German Aerospace Center's Space Applications Company and Head of ... more |
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 Russia blames scientists for rocket crashes Russia's chief prosecutor on Tuesday blamed a recent spate of disasters threatening the future of the International Space Station (ISS) on negligence by the country's underpaid rocket scientists. ... more | .. |
Soyuz is put through its paces for Thursday's launch A full dress rehearsal for Arianespace's first Soyuz flight from French Guiana was performed today, validating the mission from countdown to spacecraft separation in preparation for this Russian-bui ... more | .. |
First Soyuz ready for liftoff from French Guiana The first Soyuz to take off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana is now at its launch pad. The rocket that will carry the first two Galileo navigation s ... more | .. |
 Huge stakes riding on maiden Soyuz launch from Kourou Prestige and a multi-billion-dollar gamble in satellite navigation will be riding on a Soyuz rocket next Thursday when the Soviet-era workhorse launches from Europe's space base in South America. ... more |
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Factfile on Galileo, Europe's rival to GPS Following is a snapshot of Europe's Galileo space-based navigation system, the first satellites of which are scheduled to be launched on Thursday from Kourou, French Guiana. ... more | .. |
 NASA Readies New Type of Earth-Observing Satellite for Launch NASA is planning an Oct. 27 launch of the first Earth-observing satellite to measure both global climate changes and key weather variables. The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmenta ... more | .. |
 Soyuz ready with Galileo satellites for milestone launch International space cooperation will be highlighted in a historic event on 20 October: the launch of Europe's first Galileo navigation satellites on Russia's first Soyuz rocket to depart from Europe ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Excalibur Ia-2 Ready for Use in Afghanistan Raytheon successfully fired nine rounds in U.S. Army lot acceptance tests, which means the Excalibur Ia-2 precision-guided projectile is ready for U.S. Army and Marine Corps use in Afghanistan. ... more |
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 Lockheed Martin Powers on the GPS III Pathfinder The Lockheed Martin team developing the U.S. Air Force's next generation Global Positioning System has turned on initial power to the program's pathfinder spacecraft, known as the GPS III Non Flight ... more | .. |
 Electronic Compass Market Finds its Way to 73 Percent Growth in 2011 With navigation features becoming standard in smartphones like Apple Inc.'s iPhone as well as in tablets and gaming devices, the market for electronic compasses is set to close this year with sizabl ... more | .. |
 Astrium signs new Pleiades contract Astrium Services and Chinese provider of satellite data and value-added services, Beijing Eastdawn Information Technology (Eastdawn), have signed a partnership agreement to give Eastdawn access to P ... more |
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