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Thousands of Young Adventurers Kept Safe with M2M Connectivity from EseyeLondon, UK (SPX) May 18, 2012 More than 2,400 teenagers aged between 14 and 19 took part in Saturday's event, trekking 35, 45 or 55 miles over what the Ten Tors director Brigadier Piers Hankinson called the "forbidding Dartmoor terrain". The teenagers set off on Saturday morning and camped on the moor overnight. Eseye was the proud supplier of two solutions for this particular event: the Eseye 'Eider' GSM/GPRS modem combined with the AnyNet SIM card as well as a bespoke Satellite tracking solution both of which allowed the tee ... read more |
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 Geolocating soccer players GPS isn't just for guiding confused drivers, it can also be used by soccer managers who are a little lost when it comes to assessing their players' performance. Acceleration, average and maximum spe ... more | .. |
 Habits and hidden journeys of ocean giants Using the latest satellite tracking technology, conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the University of Exeter (UK), and the Government of Mexico have completed a ground-breaking ... more | .. |
 Navigating the shopping center With a GPS receiver in your smartphone, you can navigate your way over highways and streets with certainty. But once you get inside a building, it provides no further assistance. That's why Fraunhof ... more | .. |
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 Floating robots use GPS-enabled smartphones to track water flow A fleet of 100 floating robots took a trip down the Sacramento River in a field test organized by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley. The smartphone-equipped floating robots demonst ... more | .. |
  Oslo-physicists use 20 new satellites to forecast space weather The northern lights interfere with radio communications, GPS navigation and satellite communications. Researchers are now going to launch 20 satellites containing world class instruments from the Un ... more | .. |
 North Korea stops jamming South's GPS: official North Korea has stopped transmitting signals which jammed the GPS systems of hundreds of civilian aircraft and ships in South Korea for two weeks, officials said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Transneft to use GLONAS for monitoring The "Transneft" company and the Navigational Information Systems company have begun to create a system of transport monitoring with the help of GLONAS. The Russian GLONAS and the American GPS ... more |
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Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program
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  Moscow court upholds ban against satellite image distributor A Moscow court upheld a ban on Friday prohibiting the Russian research and development company ScanEx from distributing satellite images of Earth at a resolution higher than two meters. Scanex ... more | .. |
  Popovkin replaces Perminov at Russian space agency Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appointed former First Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin as head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos on Friday, replacing Anatoly Perminov. Popo ... more | .. |
  NASA Robot Competition Rolls Onto WPI Campus June 14-17 Autonomous robots created by 11 teams of engineers from across the country will compete for a NASA prize purse of $1.5 million on the campus of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), in Worcester, M ... more | .. |
  Improved batteries, SWIPES lighten Soldiers' load A Soldier treks through treacherous terrain in a dangerous combat zone with a rucksack filled with meals ready-to-eat, first-aid gear, weapons, ammunition, radios and batteries. The U.S. Army Resear ... more |
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China launches new remote-sensing satellite China successfully launched the remote-sensing satellite Yaogan XIIII Thursday from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern province of Shanxi, according to a press release from the center. ... more | .. |
New Carbon-Counting Instrument Leaves the Nest Its construction now complete, the science instrument that is the heart of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) spacecraft - NASA's first mission dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dio ... more | .. |
 ESA declares end of mission for Envisat Just weeks after celebrating its tenth year in orbit, communication with the Envisat satellite was suddenly lost on 8 April. Following rigorous attempts to re-establish contact and the investigation ... more | .. |
 For smartphone users: location, location, location More smartphones means more Americans are using the devices to get location information or to share their whereabouts with friends, a study showed Friday. ... 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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  Shared space the safest way The US space shuttle is no longer in service, and it will likely be several years before the United States can resume independent human spaceflight. As a result, China's upcoming Shenzhou IX mission ... more | .. |
  Rapid Sierra Nevada uplift tracked by scientists Hammond's team includes Geoff Blewitt, Hans-Peter Plag and Corne Kreemer from the University of Nevada, Reno's College of Science and Zhenhong Li of the Centre for the Observation and Modeling of Ea ... more | .. |
S. Korea to urge N. Korea to stop GPS jamming South Korea said Wednesday it would send formal complaints to North Korea and to UN agencies, urging Pyongyang to stop sending GPS jamming signals that have affected hundreds of civilian flights. ... more | .. |
 Raytheon fires Excalibur from G6 self-propelled howitzer Raytheon has fired four Excalibur 155mm precision-guided artillery projectiles from the Denel-manufactured G6 self-propelled howitzer as part of a field trial demonstration. Multiple rounds of ... more |
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 Next Galileo satellites to launch after the summer The European Commission has announced the launch date of the next pair of ESA-procured Galileo satellites. These will be launched together on a Soyuz from French Guiana on 28 September, joining the ... more | .. |
  GPS on commercial ships could improve tsunami warnings Commercial ships travel across most of the globe and could provide better warnings for potentially deadly tsunamis, according to a study published by scientists at the University of Hawaii - Manoa ( ... more | .. |
  Analyzing energy potential from minor discrete sources Sensors, radio transmitters and GPS modules all feature low power consumption. All it takes is a few milliwatts to run them. Energy from the environment - from sources such as light or vibrations - ... more | .. |
 Spotlight on Sentinel-2 The vast potential of ESA's upcoming Sentinel-2 satellites came into focus last week at a symposium in Italy on how they will benefit current and future projects that exploit Earth observation data. ... 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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 GeoEye Proposes Acquisition Of DigitalGlobe GeoEye, Inc. said Friday that it is proposing to acquire DigitalGlobe, Inc. The combined company would create the world's largest fleet of high resolution commercial imagery satellites. The new comp ... more | .. |
  Arms race between China and India? An Interview with Gennady Yevstafiev, retired Lieutenant General of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. Mr. Yevstafiev, thank you so much for joining us now. So, the way I'm looking at v ... more | .. |
  Africa's last rhinos threatened by poaching Decades of conservation efforts to save rhinos are coming undone, as surging demand for their horns in Asian traditional medicine has spawned a vast criminal trade powered by poaching. ... more | .. |
  Portable gas sensors improve atmospheric pollution measurements Different types of compact, low-power portable sensors under development by three independent research groups may soon yield unprecedented capabilities to monitor ozone, greenhouse gases, and air po ... more |
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 Gas development linked to wildlife habitat loss A study by the Wildlife Conservation Society documents that intense development of the two largest natural gas fields in the continental U.S. are driving away some wildlife from their traditional wi ... more | .. |
Czech Republic approves EU Galileo agency move to Prague Czech Republic politicians have approved the transfer to Prague of the EU agency in charge of Europe's Galileo geopositioning system, lawmakers said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Report warns of rapid decline in US Earth observation capabilities A new National Research Council report says that budget shortfalls, cost-estimate growth, launch failures, and changes in mission design and scope have left U.S. earth observation systems in a more ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Completes Key Integration Milestone on GeoEye-2 Lockheed Martin has successfully mated the spacecraft bus and the imaging payload for GeoEye's (NASDAQ: GEOY) next-generation, high-resolution imaging satellite, known as GeoEye-2. Lockheed Martin S ... more |
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