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Bob Benson: Tales Of Chilly ResearchGrrenblet MD (SPX) Dec 31, 2010 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 Earth's atmosphere that reflects radio communication waves - has taken him to some extreme latitudes. Standing in the corner of Bob Benson's office is a microfilm reader. You know, the big, boxy machine that was used to look up archived newspaper articles before such things were an Internet search away. ... read more |
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  NASA's Terra Satellite Sees A Snow-Covered Ireland 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 over ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  Privacy Push Will Impact Geolocation Sector Efforts to protect consumers' privacy on the Internet are likely to impact companies that collect, use or distribute geolocation data, said LeClairRyan attorney Kevin D. Pomfret, a leading advisor i ... more |
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 President Medvedev Sacks Space Officials Over Satellite Loss Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed two senior space industry officials and reprimanded the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Anatoly Perminov on Wednesday over the recent loss of thr ... 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 | .. |
  Ariane 5's Sixth Launch Of 2010 This evening, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport on a journey to place two telecommunications satellites, Hispasat-1E and Koreasat-6, into their planned transfer orbits. Flight ... 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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 '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 |
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 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 | .. |
 Astronaut sues over use of historic photo Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin is suing a trading card company for using a photograph of him on his historic moonwalk as part of a recent card series. ... 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 | .. |
 Tablets galore on tap at major CES gadget fest Tablet computers will lead a host of "smart" gadgets in the Nevada desert this week at a Consumer Electronics Show (CES) spotlighting slick new devices on the horizon. ... 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 |
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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 | .. |
  US drone strikes kill 15 militants in Pakistan: officials Three US missile attacks in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt on Saturday killed at least 15 militants and destroyed a Taliban compound, local officials said. ... 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 | .. |
  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 |
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