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NASA's Terra Satellite Sees A Snow-Covered IrelandGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 31, 2010 The Mid-Atlantic and northeastern U.S. are not the only areas dealing with holiday snowfall. Ireland was recently swathed in white on December 22, 2010. When NASA's Terra satellite passed overhead, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument captured a true-color image of the snow. The overnight arrival of 15 cm (6 in) of snow at the Dublin airport forced its closure. Combined with the closure of the City of Derry airport, travel became quite difficult. MODIS images ... read more |
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 Semisopochnoi Island It is the "Island of the Seven Mountains, " or more precisely in Russian: "having seven hills." This uninhabited volcanic island is also an important nesting area for maritime birds of the North Pac ... more | .. |
  HISPASAT Satellite Successfully Performs Post-Launch Maneuvers Space Systems/Loral has announced that the HISPASAT 1E satellite, designed and built for the HISPASAT Group, is performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan. The satellite deployed its s ... more | .. |
 Bob Benson: Tales Of Chilly Research As the weather gets colder in Maryland, Bob Benson tells tales of winters he used to know in Minnesota, the South Pole, and Alaska. A five-decade career studying Earth's ionosphere - the part of Ear ... more | .. |
  ILS and Satmex Announce The ILS Proton Launch Of Satmex 8 International Launch Services (ILS) and Satellites Mexicanos (Satmex) announce the launch of the Satmex 8 satellite on an ILS Proton. The satellite is under construction by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L ... more |
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  Officials Award Production Contract For Fourth Advanced Frequency Satellite The Military Satellite Communications Systems Directorate announced Dec. 17 the award of a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification valued at approximately $1.4 billion to Lockheed Martin Space ... more | .. |
 Mixed Bag For Indian Space Agency In 2010 It was a year of mixed fortunes for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in 2010 with the positive developments overshadowing two failed rocket missions. On the positive side the spac ... more | .. |
 Orbiting junk seen as major space threat Thousands of pieces of space junk in Earth orbit now rival weapons as a threat to the future peaceful use of space, a U.S. researcher says. ... more | .. |
  Medvedev fires space chiefs after satellite crash President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday fired two top space officials and reprimanded the space agency chief after a launch failure caused Russia to delay the deployment of its own navigation system. ... more |
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 'Zombie satellite' finally reboots itself A "zombie satellite" adrift in orbit has come back to life, resetting itself after an unexplained breakdown in space this year, its European controllers say. ... more | .. |
 Europe launcher puts Spanish, S.Korean satellites into orbit An Ariane 5 heavy rocket lifted off from Europe's space base on French Guiana Wednesday and put into orbit the South Korean Koreasat 6 and Spanish Hispasat 1E telecommunications satellites. ... more | .. |
 TRACE Spacecraft's New Slewing Procedure The fastest path between Point A and Point B is a straight line. Not so fast, says a team of scientists and engineers who recently disproved this commonly accepted notion using a NASA satellite that ... more | .. |
  NASA mulls merging operational divisions NASA says it is considering merging its space operations and human spaceflight mission directorates to better reach its manned spaceflight goals. ... more |
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 GSLV Failures Fuel Disappointment And Anxiety While disappointment haunts the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) about the two successive failures of the Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) missions, there is fear whether the ... more | .. |
 Suspected Debris Of Exploded Rocket Washes Ashore An oval metal object, suspected to be debris of the rocket that was blown up mid-air by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists Saturday following a failed launch, washed ashore near Pa ... more | .. |
 ISRO Cannot Afford Failures The Indian space research organization (ISRO) was not destined to end the year on a cheerful note. On Christmas eve its GSAT-5P satellite launch mission failed in the "first stage" of the launch pro ... more | .. |
 India Plans To Launch 30 Satellites In Next Decade India is mulling to launch at least 30 earth observation satellites in the next one decade, a senior official at the Department of Space (DoS) said. "We expect not less than 30 satellites," Di ... more |
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  Galileo Pathfinder GIOVE-A Achieves Five Years In Orbit ESA's GIOVE-A satellite - the first prototype of Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system - is still working well after five years in space. The first 'Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element' ... more | .. |
 Arianespace Flight 199: Launch Postponed 24 Hours The launch of Arianespace Flight 199 has been postponed for 24 hours due to the unfavourable weather conditions over the launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana. Flight 199 will place into geostat ... more | .. |
  S.Korea schools get robot English teachers Almost 30 robots have started teaching English to youngsters in a South Korean city, education officials said Tuesday, in a pilot project designed to nurture the nascent robot industry. ... more | .. |
  Japan to consider using drones: report Japan is to consider using unmanned aircraft for surveillance flights, a newspaper reported Thursday, at a time of heightened tensions with neighbouring China and North Korea. ... more |
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  12 killed in Russia military cargo jet crash A giant Antonov cargo plane crashed during a training exercise in central Russia, leaving all 12 military pilots aboard the aircraft missing and presumed dead, officials said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Obama's other 'surge': US drone war in Pakistan As the United States pressed ahead with a grinding campaign in Afghanistan in 2010, President Barack Obama dramatically escalated another war across the border in Pakistan, using robotic planes to pound Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants. ... more | .. |
 US missile salvo kills 15 in Pakistan: officials A barrage of US missiles killed at least 15 militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal district on Tuesday, obliterating compounds and vehicles used by Islamist fighters, officials said. ... more | .. |
 AeroVironment Receives Order For Raven UAS And Digital Retrofit Kits AeroVironment has announced that it received an order valued at $46,226,984 under an existing contract with the U.S. Army. The order comprises 123 new digital Raven small unmanned aircraft systems ( ... more |
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