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January 12, 2012
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USAF Awards Contract to Lockheed Martin for GPS III Launch and Checkout Capability
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The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $21.5 million contract to provide a Launch and Checkout Capability (LCC) to command and control all GPS III satellites from launch through early on-orbit testing. The LCC, which will be integrated into the Raytheon-developed Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX), will ensure launch availability for the first GPS III satellite in 2014. The LCC includes trained satellite operators and engineering solutions in partnership with OCX to support ... read more

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EARTH OBSERVATION

NASA Radar to Study Most Active Volcano On Hawaii
An airborne radar developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., has returned to Hawaii to continue its study of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii's current most active volcano. The Un ... more
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ORBCOMM Announces Launch of VesselSat2
ORBCOMM has announced the successful launch of VesselSat2, an Automatic Identification Service (AIS) enabled satellite built by LuxSpace Sarl (LuxSpace), an affiliate of OHB System AG. VesselSat2 wa ... more
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Astro Aerospace Completes CDA of Reflector Boom Assembly for SMAP Mission
Astro Aerospace, a strategic business unit of Northrop Grumman, has completed a major milestone in the development of the reflector boom assembly (RBA) for NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China's space ambitions ally glory with pragmatism
As China pushes to become a global space power, experts say its ambitions go well beyond a symbolic moon landing, to satellite observation and a global positioning system to rival that of the United States. ... more
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GPS NEWS

Association of Old Crows Recognizes the Dangers of Persistent GPS Interference
The November 2011 testing of LightSquared's wireless broadband service proposal found no significant interference to cellular phone text and voice capabilities but did find significant disruption of ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Ice data at your fingertips
Discover ESA's ice mission, track it in real time and obtain the latest measurements with the new CryoSat application. CryoSat is measuring the thickness of polar sea ice and monitoring changes in t ... more
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UAV NEWS

Autonomous Deployment Demonstration Program Completes Flight Testing
The Naval Research Laboratory Vehicle Research Section has completed flight tests for the Autonomous Deployment Demonstration (ADD) program. The final demonstration took place Sept. 1 at the Yuma Pr ... more
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Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program
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Top Chinese gaming companies continue to challenge
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FARM NEWS

Don't put all your eggs in one basket
Winters in the Gobi desert are usually long and very cold but the winter of 2009/2010 was particularly severe, a condition Mongolians refer to as "dzud". Millions of livestock died in Mongolia and t ... more
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GPS NEWS

China's satellite navigation system will meet both civil and defense needs
China's homegrown Beidou Navigation Satellite System is designed to meet diversified civilian needs, said National Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun Wednesday. "As is known to all, all int ... more
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GPS NEWS

Chinese Satellite Navigation System Beidou Begin Test Services
China started to run its own satellite positioning system, Beidou, on Tuesday as the country climbed the global tech ladder and challenged the monopoly of the West. Beidou, or Big Dipper, the ... more
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GPS NEWS

China's homegrown navigation satellite network starts providing services
China's homegrown Beidou Navigation Satellite System began providing initial positioning, navigation and timing operational services to China and its surrounding areas from Tuesday, a spokesman for ... more
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GPS NEWS

Russia, India to cooperate in production of satellite navigation equipment
Russia and India intend to cooperate in the production of satellite navigation equipment and to provide services to civilian users of the Glonass system, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Indian ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

First ever direct measurement of the Earth's rotation
The Earth wobbles. Like a spinning top touched in mid-spin, its rotational axis fluctuates in relation to space. This is partly caused by gravitation from the sun and the moon. At the same time, t ... more
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GPS NEWS

China's satellite navigation system live: Xinhua
China's home-grown satellite navigation system launched a limited positioning service Tuesday, the official Xinhua news agency said, as the country seeks to break its dependence on foreign technology. ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

TRMM Satellite Measured Washi's Deadly Rainfall
NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite was providing forecasters with the rate in which rainfall was occurring in Tropical Storm Washi over the last week, and now TRMM data has ... 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
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LAUNCH PAD

Russian satellite crashes into Siberia after launch
A Russian satellite on Friday crashed into Siberia minutes after its launch due to rocket failure, the defence ministry said, in the latest humiliating setback for Russia's embattled space programme. ... more
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GPS NEWS

GMV tracks the first Galileo IOV Satellite
GMV has announced the tracking of both data and pilot channels of Galileo first satellite signal with its own line of GNSS receiver products. The first two Galileo satellites were launched fro ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

NASA Studies Vegetation Canopy Water Content, Soil Moisture
Scientists seeking insight into the role vegetation plays in water fluctuation between soil and the atmosphere recently conducted research using specialized sensors during a series of NASA Airborne ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

China launches high-resolution remote-sensing satellite
China successfully launched Ziyuan I-02C Thursday, a high-resolution remote-sensing satellite, from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi province. Launched at 11:26 a.m aboar ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Satellites can help to grow the perfect grape
A little water is needed to make wine, but how do you know when enough is enough? ESA's GrapeLook service can give you the answer. GrapeLook uses satellites to help decide how much to water vineyard ... more
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China to launch country's first high-resolution mapping satellite for civil purposes
China will launch its first-ever high-resolution geological mapping satellite for civil purposes next January, according to official sources. The Ziyuan III satellite will be launched aboard a ... more
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GPS NEWS

GIS Degree A Safe Bet for Professionals in the Ever-Growing Oil Industry
The Keystone Pipeline Project has been a hotly debated topic in Washington and around the country. The pipeline would carry crude oil from northeastern Alberta, Canada to several locations in the U. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Mankind faces long road in space exploration
After the retirement of the U.S. space shuttle fleet, the only way for astronauts to reach the International Space Station (ISS) is by Russia's Soyuz spacecraft until at least 2015. However, as one ... more
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Northrop Grumman To Support LN-251 Navigation System Integration On CH-53K Helicopter
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a follow-on contract by the U.S. Navy to provide integration and laboratory test support for the LN-251 embedded global positioning system (GPS)/fiber-optic inertia ... more
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GPS NEWS

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
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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 ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

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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CAR TECH

"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
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GPS NEWS

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
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EARTH OBSERVATION

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
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GPS NEWS

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
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