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A Tale Of Two CitiesWashington DC (SPX) Nov 18, 2010 You would never confuse Seattle, Washington, with New York City. One is home to about 600,000 people, the other has a population of 8.2 million. One ardently protects the wild salmon thrashing through its rivers, the other likes its salmon smoked and served with cream cheese on a bagel. But these cities share an important feature: They're both leaders in addressing the issue of climate change, and both rely on space-based data to help them make their plans. Even before they formally turned t ... read more |
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 Eruption At Mount Merapi The primary danger during the eruption at Merapi Volcano has been pyroclastic flows. These avalanches of hot volcanic gases, ash, and rocks descend rapidly and violently, occasionally at speeds over ... more | .. |
 Flooding In Pakistan In early November 2010, the director general of the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department warned that flood water could linger up to six more months in Pakistan. ... more | .. |
  Two Telescopes For Tiangong In 2011, China will launch Tiangong 1, a small space laboratory. Later that year, China will perform its first docking test in space when the unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft docks with Tiangong 1. In ... more | .. |
  Goodrich Supplies Europe's First MEMS Gyros For Space Navigation Goodrich Corporation gyroscopes have successfully passed in-orbit testing on the European Space Agency's (ESA) Earth Explorer CryoSat-2 satellite during a mission to detect shifts in global ice cove ... more |
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  Russia To Launch New Generation Satellite In 2013 Russia's next generation Glonass-K2 navigation satellite will be launched in 2013, Russia's Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, said on Tuesday. "We have decided to modernize the Glonass signal s ... more | .. |
  New Florida Initiative Will Help Local Space Industry, State Economy The University of Central Florida will offer two new programs to retrain residents who lose their jobs as the space shuttle program ends, thanks in part to grants from the Florida Board of Governors ... more | .. |
 Chinese Female Taikonaut Identified Sources in China have confirmed the identity of one of the two female Air Force pilots currently vying to become China's first woman in space. Captain Wang Yaping, 32, a Transport Pilot in the ... more | .. |
 SkyTraq Introduces New GLONASS/GPS Receiver SkyTraq introduces S4554GNS, a high-performance low- power GLONASS/GPS receiver. The 88-channel receiver features industry leading 29 second cold start TTFF, -155dBm tracking, and -145dBm cold start ... more |
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 UN-SPIDER Opens Beijing Office The United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER) set up its first office in China Tuesday in a bid to promote international cooperat ... more | .. |
 China Great Wall Industry Agrees To Buy 20 Rockets, 8 Satellites China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) agreed Tuesday to buy 20 rockets and eight telecommunications satellites from two Chinese technological institutes Tuesday. CGWIC, China's only sa ... more | .. |
 British Minister Visits ISRO A British minister on Monday said his country was looking forward to collaborate with India in the areas of space technology and academics. "We are looking forward to closer cooperation with India", ... more | .. |
  New Standard Proposed For Supercomputing A new supercomputer rating system will be released by an international team led by Sandia National Laboratories at the Supercomputing Conference 2010 in New Orleans. The rating system, Graph50 ... more |
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  Pentagon Contracts Iridium to Upgrade Satellite Communications Gateway Iridium Communications announces that it has won three Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) contracts to upgrade the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Enhanced Mobile Satellite Service (EMSS) Ga ... more | .. |
 Biggest satellite antenna launched A U.S. satellite carrying the biggest commercial reflector antenna ever put into space has been successfully launched, it backers say. ... more | .. |
  ILS Proton Launches Lightsquared Satellite International Launch Services (ILS) has successfully carried the SkyTerra 1 satellite into orbit today on an ILS Proton for LightSquared of Reston, Virginia. This was the 7th commercial missio ... more | .. |
 SkyTerra One Satellite Sends First Signals From Space Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from LightSquared's SkyTerra 1 following the satellite's launch at 12:29 p.m. Eastern time on Nov. 14 on an International Launch Services Proton vehicl ... more |
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  Soyuz Returns To Earth Earlier Than Planned Russia's Soyuz TMA-19 spaceship with a Russian cosmonaut and U.S. astronauts on board will return to Earth earlier than planned because of an OSCE summit due on December 1-2 in Astana, a spokesman f ... more | .. |
 App-centric iPhone model is overrated: RIM CEO The head of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) fired a shot at rival Apple on Tuesday, slamming the notion that smartphones need "apps." ... more | .. |
After tussle, Google Voice application comes to iPhone Google launched a Google Voice for the iPhone application Tuesday after a lengthy dispute with Apple that drew the attention of US government telecom regulators. ... more | .. |
 Laser camera 'sees' around corners Researchers in Boston say they have developed a laser camera that can "see" around corners and take pictures of a scene not in its direct line of sight. ... more |
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  LockMart Announces Industry Team For US Army CIRCM Program Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, DRS Technologies and Daylight Solutions has announced that they are partnering to address the U.S. Army's Common Infrared Countermeasure (CIRCM) Technical ... more | .. |
 Selex Galileo Unveils The Mirach 100/X An intensive research and development programme that included project, modelling, simulation and test activities has borne fruit in the form of the Mirach 100/X Aerial Target, unveiled today by defe ... more | .. |
 Cubic To Provide Advanced Instrumentation For US Test Ranges Cubic Defense Applications has been awarded a contract valued at approximately $35 million as part of an industry team developing the Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System (CRIIS) for U.S. ... more | .. |
 UK MoD Selects Wearable Shooter-Detection System For Field Trials Raytheon's BBN Technologies' Boomerang Warrior-X wearable shooter-detection system has been selected by the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MOD) for field trials related to urgent operational re ... more |
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