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Is there profit in outer spaceNew Haven CT (SPX) Dec 16, 2011 Inside an immaculate but otherwise nondescript industrial building just outside the Beltway in suburban Virginia, half a dozen engineers and technicians, wearing lab coats, shoe covers, and hairnets, hover beside a silver-grey 10-foot-diameter metal puck. For years, the bulk of Orbital Sciences Corporation's work has been designing, building, and launching commercial, scientific, and defense satellites-probably the closest thing there is to a reliable, profitable niche in the space business. Now the com ... read more |
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  Galileo in tune as first navigation signal transmitted to Earth Europe's Galileo system has passed its latest milestone, transmitting its very first test navigation signal back to Earth. The first two Galileo satellites, launched on 21 October, are in the midst ... more | .. |
 Glonass satnav system targets Latin America and India The Latin American and Indian markets will be a priority for Glonass, Russia's global satellite navigation system, Russian Space Systems Deputy General Director Grigory Stupak said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  SMOS detects freezing soil as winter takes grip ESA's SMOS satellite is designed to observe soil moisture and ocean salinity, but this innovative mission is showing that it can also offer new insight into Earth's carbon and methane cycles by mapp ... more | .. |
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  "Green Routing" Can Cut Car Emissions Without Significantly Slowing Travel Time The path of least emissions may not always be the fastest way to drive somewhere. But according to new research from the University at Buffalo, it's possible for drivers to cut their tailpipe emissi ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Delivers GPS 3 Pathfinder Satellite to Denver on Schedule The Lockheed Martin team developing the U.S. Air Force's next generation Global Positioning System has delivered the program's pathfinder spacecraft to the company's Denver-area facility. The pathfi ... more | .. |
 Study Shows More Shrubbery in a Warming World Scientists have used satellite data from NASA-built Landsat missions to confirm that more than 20 years of warming temperatures in northern Quebec, Canada, have resulted in an increase in the amount ... more | .. |
 NASA Gears Up for Airborne Study of Earth's Radiation Balance NASA scientists have successfully completed flight tests in preparation for deployment of a multi-year airborne science campaign to study the humidity and chemical composition of air entering the tr ... more |
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Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program
Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm
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 US panel seeks ban on all phone use while driving The top US transportation safety body recommended Tuesday that all 50 US states impose a strict ban on the use of cellphones - both hand-held and hands-free - while driving. ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Awarded Contract to Deliver Jabiru-1 for NewSat Limited of Australia Lockheed Martin has won a contract with NewSat Limited (NewSat) of Australia to build the Jabiru-1 satellite. The construction of the satellite will commence immediately and it will be ready for lau ... more | .. |
  Antarctic expedition checks CryoSat down-under Next week marks 100 years since Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole. As a team of scientists brave the Antarctic to validate data from ESA's CryoSat mission, it's hard to imagine what these first ... more | .. |
 Astrium awarded Sentinel 5 Precursor contract Astrium has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as prime contractor for the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite (S5p) a low-cost mission to monitor atmospheric chemistry. The contract ... more |
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 GPS Reveals 2010 Spike In Greenland Ice Loss Lifted Bedrock An unusually hot melting season in 2010 accelerated ice loss in southern Greenland by 100 billion tons - and large portions of the island's bedrock rose an additional quarter of an inch in response. ... more | .. |
 US safety body urges cellphone ban while driving The top US transportation safety body recommended Tuesday that all 50 US states impose a strict ban on the use of cellphones - both hand-held and hands-free - while driving. ... more | .. |
 Lightweight GPS tags help research track animals of all sizes GPS tracking has shown its utility for wildlife studies, and now, development of light-weight GPS tags will allow researchers access to information about a broader range of small- to medium-sized an ... more | .. |
 Russia to put two more Glonass satellites into operation Two more Glonass navigation satellites will be up and running before the end of the year, Russian space officials said on Thursday. "We plan to put two more satellites into operation before th ... 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
Low crystallinity iron minerals show promise for chromium cleanup and carbon storage | .. |
  Seoul shopping for cruise missiles South Korea has set aside $343 million toward buying 177 air-to-surface cruise missiles next year, a report in The Korea Herald newspaper said. ... more | .. |
 GIS Cloud Featured at Eye on Earth Summit At the Eye on Earth Summit Esri will describe how cloud GIS is positioned to create an international geospatial platform for sharing environmental data and designing solutions. Also former US ... more | .. |
 Landsat satellites Track Yellowstone Underground Heat Yellowstone National Park sits on top of a vast, ancient, and still active volcano. Heat pours off its underground magma chamber, and is the fuel for Yellowstone's famous features - more than 10,000 ... more | .. |
 Jason-1 Achieves a One-Decade Landmark On Dec. 7, 2001, NASA and the French Space Agency Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) launched the Jason-1 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., embarking on a planned three-to-fi ... more |
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 ESA selects Astrium to build Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite Furthering Europe's capacity to monitor atmospheric pollution, ESA has awarded a contract worth 45.5 million euro to Astrium UK to act as prime contractor for the Sentinel-5 Precursor satellite syst ... more | .. |
  Researchers develop one of the smallest electronic circuits ever built A team of scientists, led by Guillaume Gervais from McGill's Physics Department and Mike Lilly from Sandia National Laboratories, has engineered one of the world's smallest electronic circuits. It i ... more | .. |
  Merging Tsunami Doubled Japan Destruction NASA and Ohio State University researchers have discovered the major tsunami generated by the March 2011 Tohoku-Oki quake centered off northeastern Japan was a long-hypothesized "merging tsunami." T ... more | .. |
 Germans join probe of mobile phone tracker The German state of Bavaria and other European authorities said this week they have launched data privacy investigations of the Connect IQ mobile phone software. ... 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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 Satellite Data Shows that Kirtland's Warblers Prefer Forests After Fire Kirtland's warblers are an endangered species of lightweight little birds with bright yellow-bellies that summer in North America and winter in the Bahamas. But be it their winter or their summer ho ... more | .. |
  Airman brings space to ground forces Satellite communications and Global Positioning Systems are common battlefield tools for U.S. and coalition forces in today's overseas contingency operations. Occasionally, these tools can be hinder ... more | .. |
  RAAF Extends Northrop Grumman LITENING Advanced Targeting System Contract Northrop Grumman has been awarded a four-year extension by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) to the existing support contract for the LITENING AT system, used as the RAAF's Target Designation Sy ... more | .. |
 China launches 10th satellite for independent navigation system China successfully launched a satellite into space at 5:07 a.m. Beijing Time Friday, the 10th one of its indigenous global navigation and positioning network known as Beidou, or Compass system, the ... more |
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  Poachers killed 23 rhinos in Zimbabwe this year: report The number of rhinoceros killed in Zimbabwe parks decreased to 23 this year from 30 in 2010 as parks authorities stepped up high-tech efforts to track poachers, state media reported Monday. ... more | .. |
  Danube's near-record lows strangle shipping Severe drought has hit Europe's second largest river, the Danube, turning it into a navigation nightmare for shipping companies all the way from Germany to Bulgaria. ... more | .. |
 NASA Satellite Confirms Sharp Decline in Pollution from US Coal Power Plants A team of scientists have used the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA's Aura satellite to confirm major reductions in the levels of a key air pollutant generated by coal power plants in the e ... more | .. |
 APL Proposes First Global Orbital Observation Program A consortium led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is proposing a geoscience program that would give scientists the first continuous real-time look at t ... more |
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