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First-class views of the world belowParis, France (ESA) Nov 25, 2011 Images of some of our planet's most beautiful features can be seen from the comfort of your Air France aircraft thanks to satellites. Clouds can't obstruct these views: the crystal waters of the Andaman Islands while en route to Singapore, the snaking Senegal River after taking off from Dakar and the rolling dunes of the Gobi Desert before landing in Beijing. Satellite photos of the landscape below the aircraft are now accessible by passengers on dozens of Air France flights thanks to a four ... read more |
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 Indra Enhances Imaging Of Spatial Mission For The Study Of Water On Earth Indra has finished the upgrade of the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) data processing system installed at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) located in Villafranca del Castillo (Madr ... more | .. |
 SSTL appoints Luis Gomes Director of EO and Science Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has appointed Luis Gomes Business Unit Director of Earth Observation (EO) and Science. He is now responsible for the strategic direction at SSTL in these m ... more | .. |
 Nigeria plans to relaunch satelite in December The Nigerian Communications Satellite-1Replacement (NigComSat-1R) would be launched on Dec. 19, according to a top official with the Nigerian Communications Satellite. The company's Managing Directo ... more | .. |
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 Satellite images help species conservation Organisms living on small islands are particularly threatened by extinction. However, data are often lacking to objectively assess these threats. A team of German and British researchers used ... more | .. |
 Student Cloud Observations Help Validate NASA Satellites In between recess, geography class and eating the lunch their moms packed, NASA scientists have found the time to help validate Earth-observing satellites. These scientists are the younger var ... more | .. |
 Using Satellites to Help the Earth Sustain Seven Billion People With seven billion people now living on Earth, the expanding demand for resources is exerting unprecedented pressure on global resources, especially forests, water and food. NASA and the U.S. Geolog ... more | .. |
 New FASTSAT discoveries paint detailed view of region near Earth Space around Earth is anything but a barren vacuum. The area seethes with electric and magnetic fields that change constantly. Charged particles flow through, moving energy around, creating electric ... more |
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Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program
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 Landsat 5 Mission in Jeopardy The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has stopped acquiring images from the 27-year-old Landsat 5 Earth observation satellite due to a rapidly degrading electronic component. Landsat 5 was launche ... more | .. |
 China sends two satellites into space China on Sunday morning put two satellites into orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province. The satellites, Chuangxin 1-03 and Shiyan Satellite 4 were l ... more | .. |
  'Time has come' to act on Iran, Israel says The "time has come" to deal with Iran, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday, refusing to rule out military action to curb the Islamic republic's nuclear ambitions. ... more | .. |
 TRMM Satellite Sees Deadly Tornadic Thunderstorms In Southeastern US Tornadoes are expected to accompany severe storms in the springtime in the U.S., but this time of year they also usually happen. When a line of severe thunderstorms associated with a cold front swep ... more |
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  ITT Exelis and Chronos develop offerings for the Interference, Detection and Mitigation market ITT Exelis and Chronos Technology have agreed to jointly pursue and develop product offerings for the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Interference, Detection and Mitigation (IDM) market Sa ... more | .. |
  Contested 'faster-than-light' experiment yields same results A fiercely contested experiment that appears to show the accepted speed limit of the Universe can be broken has yielded the same results in a re-run, European physicists said on Friday. But co ... more | .. |
  Bats, Dolphins, and Mole Rats Inspire Advances in Ultrasound Technology Sonar and ultrasound, which use sound as a navigational device and to paint accurate pictures of an environment, are the basis of countless technologies, including medical ultrasound machines and su ... more | .. |
  Raytheon Wins Majority Share of US Air Force Paveway Purchase The U.S. Air Force awarded Raytheon a $24 million contract for Paveway II laser-guided bomb components, the majority share of the Air Force's laser-guided bomb buy for overseas contingency operation ... 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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 Rising air pollution worsens drought and flooding Increases in air pollution and other particulate matter in the atmosphere can strongly affect cloud development in ways that reduce precipitation in dry regions or seasons, while increasing rain, sn ... more | .. |
  Mystery of the Lunar Ionosphere How can a world without air have an ionosphere? Somehow the Moon has done it. Lunar researchers have been struggling with the mystery for years, and they may have finally found a solution. But first ... more | .. |
  Raytheon Develops Wireless Integration For Combat-Proven Enhanced Paveway Raytheon has completed testing and development of a new wireless method of integrating its combat-proven Enhanced Paveway precision-guided bomb on aircraft. The new integration tool, called WiPak, u ... more | .. |
 Weighing in at 30,000 pounds, a new bomb for US The US Air Force has a new 30,000-pound bomb in its arsenal designed to penetrate targets buried deep underground, a spokesman said Tuesday. ... more |
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  2012: Killer Solar Flares Are a Physical Impossibility Given a legitimate need to protect Earth from the most intense forms of space weather - great bursts of electromagnetic energy and particles that can sometimes stream from the sun - some people worr ... more | .. |
 Exploring the last white spot on Earth Scientists will soon be exploring matter at temperatures and pressures so extreme it can only be produced for microseconds using powerful pulsed lasers. Matter in such states is present in the Earth ... more | .. |
 NRL's MIGHTI selected by NASA for potential space flight A Naval Research Laboratory instrument designed to study the Earth's thermosphere is part of a future science mission that has been selected by NASA for evaluation for flight. The NRL-develope ... more | .. |
 GMV Supports Successful Launch of Europe's Galileo GMV, one of the main companies contracted to establish and support Europe's satellite navigation strategy, continues to play a key role in the most recent phase of the Galileo program. GMV successfu ... 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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 Castles in the desert - satellites reveal lost cities of Libya Satellite imagery has uncovered new evidence of a lost civilization of the Sahara in Libya's south-western desert wastes that will help re-write the history of the country. The fall of Gaddafi has o ... more | .. |
  UC Aerial Robot System Can Save Firefighter Lives Wildfires kill and, too often, fatalities are caused by a lack of situational awareness, said Kelly Cohen. Timely information can prevent wildfire deaths, especially among first responders, said Coh ... more | .. |
 China launches remote-sensing satellite China successfully launched the remote-sensing satellite Yaogan XII Wednesday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern Shanxi province, according to a press release from the center. ... more | .. |
 Scientists Prepare for Coming ATTREX Climate Study A consortium of scientists are in the early stages of preparation for a multi-year airborne science campaign to study the humidity and chemical composition of air entering the tropical tropopause la ... more |
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  China's Sinopec to pay $3.5 bn for Brazil oil stake China's Sinopec said Friday it will pay $3.54 billion for a 30 percent stake in the Brazilian unit of Portuguese oil giant Galp Energia, marking the latest push by Chinese companies into Latin America. ... more | .. |
 TerraSAR-X image of the month - Tents in the desert Viewed from above, the US 'Burning Man' festival resembles a spider web. The structure laid out on the site for this festival looks very much like a small town. In October and September 2011, the Te ... more | .. |
 In GPS case, US court debates '1984' scenario The US Supreme Court delved Tuesday into the issue of privacy amid 21st century technology, hearing arguments on whether police can use a GPS device attached to a vehicle to track a suspect without a search warrant. ... more | .. |
 Stalled Weather Systems More Frequent in Decades of Warmer Atlantic Slow-moving winter weather systems that can lead to massive snowfalls are more frequent during the decades when the North Atlantic Ocean is warmer than usual, a new NASA study finds. The study ... more |
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