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 Abu Dhabi, UAE (SPX) Oct 19, 2009 
The UAE is forging ahead with the development of a national space industry and its pioneering role can help accelerate the establishment of a Pan Arab space agency which would reduce the cost of sending satellites into orbit. The Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology's recent launch of the UAE's first ingeniously built remote sensing satellite, DubaiSat-1, and Yahsat's ... read more 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 19, 2009Direct communication between Earth and Mars can be strongly disturbed and even blocked by the Sun for weeks at a time, cutting off any future human mission to the Red Planet. An ESA engineer working with engineers in the UK may have found a solution using a new type of orbit combined with continuous-thrust ion propulsion. The European researchers studied a possible solution to a crucial ... more
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Nanyang, Japan (SPX) Oct 19, 2009In disaster-struck areas where terrestrial communications may be down, the deployment of rescue teams becomes extremely challenging. A team led by Assistant Professor Lee Yee Hui from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), aims to provide solutions to this problem by using high-speed satellite communication links. The NTU team is working ... more  
Redlands CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2009Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar recently signed an order to establish a coordinated strategy within the United States Department of the Interior (DOI) to improve response to climate change. During the press conference announcing the order, DOI staff used ESRI geographic information system (GIS) technology to demonstrate the current and future impacts of global climate change. ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 19, 2009After a rocky start and then a stellar 26-year performance, NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite - 1 (TDRS-1) is scheduled for decommissioning on October 28. Communications equipment that links TDRS-1 to the ground has failed and without this capability it can no longer relay science data and spacecraft telemetry to ground stations located at the White Sands Complex in Las Cruces ... more |
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Paris (UPI) Oct 16, 2009 France has taken delivery of six unmanned air vehicles from Canada. French Defense Ministry spokesman Laurent Teisseire said experts were "verifying the conditions of the six UAV Sperwers bought from Canada to assess their operating conditions," Avionews reported. France is already using four of these aircraft in operations in Afghanistan. Teisseire also acknowledged that ... more 
Irvine CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2009Boeing's A160T Hummingbird unmanned helicopter successfully completed 20 test flights from Aug. 31 to Oct. 8 with the Foliage Penetration Reconnaissance, Surveillance, Tracking and Engagement Radar (FORESTER). The tests, conducted at Fort Stewart, Ga., validated the radar-carrying A160T's flight characteristics with more than 50 hours of flying time. FORESTER is being developed by the ... more  
Brussels (AFP) Oct 16, 2009A German firm is trying to develop a space-based system for detecting when medium-range missiles are fired, which could protect Europe without annoying Russia, a company official said Friday. "We are studying a concept of an alternative system which could protect Europe without the global political impact" of the controversial US anti-missile shield, said Fritz Merkle at German firm OHB. ... more |
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