Space Business News
April 20, 2011
GPS NEWS
NAVIGON Updates iPhone Nav App
Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Apr 20, 2011
NAVIGON AG has announced the availability of the eighth update for its iPhone app, MobileNavigator, the most feature-rich navigation solution on the iOS platform. The update adds a Reality Scanner feature that helps finding points of interest close-by, presenting them in an augmented reality view. Version 1.8 also includes safety camera alerts as an In App Purchase, an at-a-glance traffic gage and a new NAVTEQ map. In conjunction with the update launch, MobileNavigator apps and In App Purchase pri ... read more

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GPS NEWS

ExxonMobil Introduces Android Station Locator App
ExxonMobil is launching its latest in mobile technology - the Exxon Mobil Fuel Finder application for Android. The application gives real-time maps, driving directions, and station information for n ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA Device Inducted Into Space Technology Hall Of Fame
A rotating device developed by NASA inventors to grow better living tissue specimens was inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame Thursday, April 14. The Space Foundation honored the NASA tea ... more
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VSAT NEWS

Gilat Chosen For Namibian Broadband Satellite Communications Network
Gilat has announced that it has been selected by Telecom Namibia to provide a SkyEdge II Broadband Satellite Network to serve hundreds of locations throughout Namibia. The new, IP oriented and highe ... more
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GPS NEWS

Garmin Adds Its First Touchscreen GPS Watch To Forerunner Family
Garmin International has announced the Forerunner 610 sports watch - a slim, yet robust and weather-proof touchscreen solution for serious runners seeking an extra advantage. Forerunner 610 can stan ... more
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GPS NEWS

TomTom Makes Driving Safer With Active Driver Feedback
TomTom has announced Active Driver Feedback and WEBFLEET OptiDrive; two new features focused at further increasing TomTom's safety and efficiency benefits for businesses. Active Driver Feedbac ... more
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SPACEMART

LockMart Awarded Contract For Iridium NEXT Satellites
Thales Alenia Space has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin to develop, test and support integration of payload application software for the Iridium NEXT satellites. Thales Alenia Space is t ... more
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TECH SPACE

Ball Aerospace Moves NPP Satellite To Thermal Vacuum Chamber For Final Testing
Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has moved the NPOESS Preparatory Satellite (NPP) to the thermal vacuum chamber for final testing. NPP was lowered into Ball's chamber on March 2, 2011, to ... more
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Europe Strives to Counter Russian and Chinese Satellite Menace
Arrival of US aircraft carrier fuels Venezuelan fears of attack
Amentum secures up to 995M dollar US Air Force contract for MQ9 modernization
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LAUNCH PAD

India Starts Countdown For Launch Of Three Satellites
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Monday began a 54-hour countdown for the launch of three satellites, an ISRO press secretary said. Remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2, as w ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA Awards Next Set Of Commercial Crew Development Agreements
NASA has awarded four Space Act Agreements in the second round of the agency's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev2) effort. Each company will receive between $22 million and $92.3 million to advance ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

LockMart Commends Congressional Action On NASA Spacecraft
Following months of short-term, stop-gap funding for NASA, Lockheed Martin welcomes final passage of the FY 2011 budget by the Congress, which has been sent forward for President Obama's signature. ... more
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SPACEMART

USA Announces End-Of-Program Workforce Reduction
United Space Alliance has announced that, following the final mission of the Space Shuttle Program, the company will implement a major workforce reduction in late July and early August due to the co ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

NASA awards $270 million in spaceship contracts
NASA on Monday announced it has awarded nearly 270 million dollars to four companies, including Boeing and SpaceX, to help their pursuit of making a spacecraft to replace the US space shuttle. ... more
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MISSILE DEFENSE

Aegis BMD System Engages Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile For First Time
Lockheed Martin's Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system successfully tracked and engaged an intermediate range ballistic missile using data from a remote AN/TPY-2 radar during a test off the ... more
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MISSILE NEWS

LockMart To Respond To Joint Air-To-Ground Missile Request
Lockheed Martin says it will respond to the government's Request for Proposal (RFP) for the next phases for the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM). The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command issued ... more
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TECH SPACE

ITT's Commercial Imaging Payload Passes Major Milestone
ITT reached a key milestone with the successful completion of the Critical Design Review (CDR) for the imaging payload for WorldView-3, DigitalGlobe's high-resolution commercial Earth imaging satell ... more
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MIT senior turns waste from the fishing industry into biodegradable plastic
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Pakistan test fires nuclear-capable missile
Pakistan's military on Tuesday said it had successfully test-fired a newly developed short-range ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads. ... more
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MILTECH

New Warhead Reduces Size Of Raytheon Small Tactical Munition
Raytheon tested a new warhead for its Small Tactical Munition, a new weapon specifically designed to be employed from unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). STM is a 13-pound guided munition that is appro ... more
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MILTECH

Northrop Grumman T-38 Talon Honored For 50 Years Of Service
On March 17, Northrop Grumman joined representatives of the U.S. Air Force in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first delivery of the T-38 Talon trainer aircraft. At an event held at Ran ... more
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MISSILE NEWS

MBDA Demos VL Mica Proficiency Against Stand-Off Weapons
On the 13th April 2011, at the French DGA-Essais Missiles test centre in Biscarosse, South West France, a VL MICA missile launched from a ground based vertical launcher and controlled by a Tactical ... more
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UAV NEWS

Unmanned military aircraft get a boost
Unmanned military aircraft running on lithium-ion batteries received a boost for future development with a new a U.S. Air Force contract designed to fund work on longer lasting and cheaper batteries of the mineral compound. ... more
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MISSILE DEFENSE

Netanyahu thanks Obama for 'Dome' missile funding
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked US President Barack Obama on Monday for helping fund a missile defense system protecting the Jewish state from Palestinian rockets, the White House said. ... more
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MILTECH

Raytheon Receives Best Value Thermal Weapon Sight Delivery Order
Raytheon has been recognized as a best value provider in the award of a $68.6 million order to deliver thermal weapon sights (TWS) for enhanced night vision capabilities to acquire and accurately pr ... more
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MILTECH

Next Gen Helicopter Operations Surveillance System (HOSS) Camera Comes To US Navy
Following extensive product development and factory and sea trials, Kongsberg Maritime have successfully delivered the first of its new generation of innovative ultra low light cameras to the US Nav ... more
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Taiwan fears impact of Japan-style disaster
Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou warned Tuesday the island would find it difficult to cope with simultaneous disasters similar to the quake and tsunami that struck Japan last month. ... more
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Leaders pledge aid to complete Chernobyl shelter
International leaders pledged hundreds of millions of dollars at a conference in Kiev Tuesday to complete a permanent shelter to secure the ruins of Ukraine's exploded Chernobyl power station. ... more
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GPS NEWS

Using GPS Data To Model Effects Of Tidal Loads On Earth Surface
For many people, Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite technology is little more than a high-tech version of a traditional paper map. Used in automobile navigation systems and smart phones, GPS ... more
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Latvia's president marked by role at Chernobyl
Twenty-five years after he was sent to Chernobyl in the aftermath of the world's worst nuclear disaster, the experience remains etched in the memory of Latvia's President Valdis Zatlers. ... more
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POLITICAL ECONOMY

Record revenue for Intel, shares soar
US computer chip giant Intel blew past the expectations of Wall Street analysts on Tuesday and dismissed gloomy forecasts for personal computer sales. ... more
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ENERGY TECH

NRL Scientists Demonstrate Novel Ionic Liquid Batteries
Scientists at the NRL Materials Science and Technology Division are providing solid evidence that there is a new route towards developing novel, lightweight energy storage devices. By moving away fr ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Scientists Finely Control Methane Combustion to Get Different Products
Scientists have discovered a method to control the gas-phase selective catalytic combustion of methane, so finely that if done at room temperature the reaction produces ethylene, while at lower temp ... more
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ENERGY TECH

A Chance Discovery May Revolutionize Hydrogen Production
Producing hydrogen in a sustainable way is a challenge and production cost is too high. A team led by EPFL Professor Xile Hu has discovered that a molybdenum based catalyst is produced at room tempe ... more
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