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GPS Devices And Systems Will Generate Revenues Of 240 Billion Dollars By 2013
London, UK (SPX) Apr 29, 2008GPS satellite technology is becoming increasingly important as it is being embedded in an ever-wider range of mobile consumer devices to enable navigation and Location Based Services. While GPS handsets and in-vehicle navigation systems will remain the most lucrative markets, industrial applications such as network timing, land surveying, and machine control are quickly gaining momentum. ... more Europe Moves Closer To GPS Independence With Latest Satellite Launch 
Paris, France (SPX) Apr 29, 2008A further step towards the deployment of Europe's Galileo global navigation satellite system has been taken, with the successful launch of ESA's second Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element (GIOVE-B) satellite, carrying the most accurate atomic clock ever flown into space. The GIOVE-B satellite was lofted into a medium altitude orbit around the earth by a Soyuz/Fregat rocket departing from ... more Broken Heart Image The Last For NASA's Long-Lived Polar Mission 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 29, 2008As far as endings go, this one's a real heart breaker. NASA's Polar satellite concludes its successful mission at the end of April with a breathtaking visible-light image of the colorful dancing lights of the aurora. The Polar team has dubbed this final image "The Broken Heart." When the Polar satellite launched February 24, 1996, the plan was for a two-year science mission to study the ... more Austria Declares Intent To Join ESO 
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Apr 28, 2008At a press conference today at the University of Vienna's Observatory, the Austrian Science Minister Johannes Hahn announced the decision by the Austrian Government to seek membership of ESO from 1 July this year. Said Minister Hahn: "With membership of ESO, Austria's scientists will receive direct access to the world's leading infrastructure in astronomy. This strengthens Austria as a ... more Aerospace Day Aims To Deliver Awareness And Industry Growth 
Columbus OH (SPX) Apr 28, 2008The first celebration of Ohio's rich aerospace history and thriving aerospace industry will take place on May 7 at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. The day is dedicated to bringing to light Ohio's extraordinary and diverse contributions to the aerospace sector throughout the world. NASA Glenn Research Center, Ohio Aerospace Institute (OAI), Ohio Department of Development, Air Force Research ... more |
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Beijing, China (XNA) Apr 28, 2008Shanghai has developed a lunar rover that it hopes to be chosen for China's first moon landing in 2013, the city government announced yesterday. The Shanghai Science and Technology Commission said the key technology of the rover has passed a technical appraisal by the government. The technology mainly covers the rover's maneuverability and detection sensors. The rover, which hasn't been gi ... more The Physics Of Whipped Cream 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 28, 2008Let's do a little science experiment. If you have a can of whipped cream in the fridge, go get it out. Spray a generous dollop into a spoon and watch carefully. Notice anything interesting? The whipped cream just did something rather puzzling. First it flowed smoothly out of the nozzle like a liquid would, and then, a moment later, it perched rigidly in the spoon as if it were solid. What made ... more Mission To Space May Not Be A Manned One: ISRO 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Apr 28, 2008India's much awaited mission to space, planned to be launched in 2015, may not be a 'manned' one as ISRO is not sure whether it would be a man or a woman who will have the privilege of being an astronaut for this ambitious programme. Faced with the dilemma, ISRO has now renamed its mega venture, costing around Rs 10,000 crore, as 'Indian human space flight', which ISRO officials hope would satis ... more Icy Active Mars 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 28, 2008The prevailing thinking is that Mars is a planet whose active climate has been confined to the distant past. About 3.5 billion years ago, the Red Planet had extensive flowing water and then fell quiet - deadly quiet. It didn't seem the climate had changed much since. Now, in a research article that graces the May cover of Geology, scientists at Brown University think Mars' climate has been ... more Lockheed Martin Joins Northrop Grumman Team Competing For GPS OCX Phase B Contract 
Reston VA (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Northrop Grumman has announced that Lockheed Martin has joined its team competing for the U.S. Air Force's Global Positioning System (GPS) Next Generation Control Segment (OCX) Phase B contract. The OCX modernization effort will provide mission enterprise control support for the nation's existing GPS Block II and future Block III satellites. The current OCX contract for Phase A of the ... more |
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Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Backpacker magazine has announced the launch of its newly redesigned website. Rebuilt from the bottom up, the site now includes more than 1,200 editor-approved GPS-supported hikes, daily blog posts from experts devoted to survival, fitness, news, and trends, on-the-scene videos featuring Backpacker editors, and a database of approximately 1,900 products that can be searched and compared in the ... more Northern Lights Glimmer With Unexpected Trait 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 28, 2008An international team of scientists has detected that some of the glow of Earth's aurora is polarized, an unexpected state for such emissions. Measurements of this newfound polarization in the Northern Lights may provide scientists with fresh insights into the composition of Earth's upper atmosphere, the configuration of its magnetic field, and the energies of particles from the Sun, the research ... more SES Negotiating To Sell AMC-14 To US Government Agency 
Gerroa, Australia (SPX) Apr 23, 2008The fate of geo stationary satellite AMC-14 that failed to achieve its desired orbit in March continues to cause problems for the Luxembourg-based SES group and its underwriters. SpaceDaily has learned that SES has backtracked on their original plan to ditch the Lockheed Martin built A2100 satellite, and is trying to offload the spacecraft to a US government agency before an SES competitor or even one of its own customers buys it from the underwriters. ... more Galaxies Gone Wild 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 25, 2008Fifty nine new images of colliding galaxies make up the largest collection of Hubble images ever released together. As this astonishing Hubble atlas of interacting galaxies illustrates, galaxy collisions produce a remarkable variety of intricate structures. Interacting galaxies are found throughout the Universe, sometimes as dramatic collisions that trigger bursts of star formation, on oth ... more China Blasts Off First Data Relay Satellite 
Beijing, China (XNA) Apr 28, 2008Beijing, China (XNA) Apr 28, 2008 China launched the country's first data relay satellite "Tianlian I" Friday night. The satellite was launched on a Long March-3C carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 11:35 p.m. (Beijing Time). The satellite will not go into function though until the Shenzhou VII mission scheduled for the second half of ... more
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