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• How GPS Tracking Vehicles Works

  
  GPSReviewsBlog.com — Authority: 145
  Using anywhere from 24 to 32 satellites, the GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) can track the location of any device that uses GPS tracking. Vehicles are particularly easy to track when this system is in place. With Christmas just around the corner GPS tracking device makes and excellent Christmas present.
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• International Launch Services Proton Successfully Launches W7 Satellite for Eutelsat

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 453
  International Launch Services (ILS) has successfully carried the W7 satellite to orbit for Eutelsat Communications of France on an ILS Proton. The Proton vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 8:19 p.m. local time (9:19 a.m. EST, 3:19 p.m. in Paris, 14:19 GMT). After a 9 hour 12 minute mission, the ...
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• City of Satellites

  
  speed of dark — Authority: 412
  Say you like stuff like the Dead Weather and Them Crooked Vultures, but you need a current-year example of near-ambient beauty for that perfect gift for a friend or relative with gentler tastes. Look no further than Australian City of Satellites’ new album Machine Is My Animal . I listed “Victor” among my ...
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• New Method to Measure Snow, Vegetation Moisture With GPS May Benefit Farmers, Meteorologists (Science Daily / Univ. Colorado, Boulder))

  
  Desertification — Authority: 149
  Read at : Science Dailyhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091120135212.htmNew Method to Measure Snow, Vegetation Moisture With GPS May Benefit Farmers, MeteorologistsScienceDaily (Nov. 23, 2009) — A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS ...
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• Space DIY – How to Launch Personal Satellites!

  
  zedomax.com — Authority: 634
  Here’s a rather interesting way to launch your own personal satellite into orbit using Interorbital System’s TubeSat Personal Satellite Kit.  For a price of $8,000, you get a basketball-sized tube and launch to 192 miles above earth into “low orbit”.  You could easily do space imaginary of earth, videos, and ...
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• Solar Winds Triggered by Magnetic Fields

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 540
  XRT Full Sun (Synoptic).Solar wind generated by the sun is probably driven by a process involving powerful magnetic fields, according to a new study led by UCL (University College London) researchers based on the latest observations from the Hinode satellite.Scientists have long speculated on the source of solar ...
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• Hidden Shoal Free Label Sampler Volume 5

  
  Hidden Shoal Recordings — Authority: 131
  Hidden Shoal Recordings is pleased to announce the official release of compilation album Crushed and Reminded , the fifth installment in its free sampler album series. Whilst the keen eyed amongst you may have already noted that this has has been available for a few weeks now, we thought we’d allow some breathing ...
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• Photo of the Day

  
  A Blog For All — Authority: 485
  If you look real carefully at the bottom right corner of the photo, you can see a satellite trail. This photo was taken with a 30 second exposure using my Canon Rebel XTi.
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• City of Satellites “Machine is My Animal” - Rave Magazine

  
  Hidden Shoal Recordings — Authority: 131
  Excerpt: “ City of Satellites venture beyond the troposphere on their debut CD Machine Is My Animal. Hazy, ethereal vocals and magisterial synth soundscapes wrap the sensors like rich ice cream upon pressing play…multi-tracked vocals are angelic for the lack of a better description. Closing with the levitating Sky ...
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• City of Satellites reviewed in Rave Magazine

  
  Hidden Shoal Recordings — Authority: 131
  The latest City of Satellites album, Machine is My Animal , has been reviewed in Brisbane street-press Rave Magazine. Check out that review here , or check the artist’s reviews section for an excerpt. Machine is My Animal is now available in all digital formats- stream and purchase the album at the Hidden ...
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• Soyuz rocket launches military payload to orbit

  
  Milcom Monitoring Post — Authority: 140
  Russia launched a military spy satellite into space Friday on a Soyuz-U rocket from the countrys Plesetsk Cosmodrome, according to the defense ministry. The secret payload lifted off at 1044 GMT (5:44 a.m. EST). The three-stage Soyuz rocket delivered the Kosmos 2455 spacecraft into an elliptical orbit 905 x 199 km, ...
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• Indian students design satelite set for launch

  
  Rashid's Blog — Authority: 123
  A team of engineering students from southern India have been designing a small light-weight satellite that is set to be sent into space soon. The Indian Space Research Organisation is supporting the project in the hope that it will encourage more students to be more interested in space technology.About 40 students, ...
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• Cruise ship technology - staying in touch with the mainland

  
  Gadling — Authority: 708
  Filed under: Gadling Gear Review There is no denying that we live in a connected world - and cruise ships are no exception. What used to be an opportunity to get away from everything and just sit back and relax, has changed into yet another place where you can keep up with the latest in your Facebook account or ...
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• NROL Launch 49 - Better the devil you know…

  
  Milcom Monitoring Post — Authority: 140
  Like previous patches for classified missions, the one for the upcoming NROL-49 mission offers some hints as to its purpose. The link below is for a very interesting article on a future NRO launch no. 49. If you are interested in military space missions, this one is worth the look. Better the devil you know… by ...
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• To Do in L.A.: 11-22 Old Canes, I Will Never Be The Same & Sol Giant @ The Viper Room

  
  AvantTrash — Authority: 124
  Old Canes is the work of Lawrence, KS native Chris Crisci (of The Appleseed Cast). The band has an eclectic indie-folk sound with lush instrumentation reminicent of Band of Horses or Sea Wolf. His most recent album Feral Harmonic was released on 10/20 through Omaha’s Saddle Creek Records. A limited edition set ...
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• Saving the Ocean With Robots

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 697
  Figuring out where to designate marine protected areas so fish populations can bounce back sounds simple. Heck, we just found water on the moon! But its no easy task, which is why were going to need water-ready robots. In California, ...
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• Fall Colors From Space : Big Pic

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 697
  Its late fall, but the colors of the season in New England are still visible from space.
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• Up to $43.1M to Rome Research to Support US Army GIG Facilities

  
  Defense Industry Daily — Authority: 531
  Rome Research Corp., a Rome, NY-based subsidiary of PAR Technology Corp., received a 5-year contract worth up to $43.1 million to provide operator level personnel to the 21st Signal Brigade for its work operating and maintaining US Army Global Information Grid (GIG) facilities within the continental United States. ...
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• Free U.S. Earth Imagery Sharpens Shared View of Global Challenges

  
  USGS Newsroom — Authority: 456
  USGS Director McNutt a Leader in U.S. Delegation at International Conference Free, easily accessible U.S. satellite data enables any citizen, scientist, or analyst who can use the information to contribute to a shared vision of the challenges facing our planet. Thats the message the newly-appointed director of ...
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• Andrzej Zielinski, Shredders and Satellites

  
  MW Capacity — Authority: 116
  Satellite Re-Entry , 2009, mixed media on panel, 120″ x 126″ Laranja Shredder , 2009, mixed media on wood panel, 53″x 47 3/4″x 3 1/2″ Kansas City-based artist Andrzej Zielinski is showing new paintings and drawings of satellites at the H&R Block Artspace .  Also in the exhibit are  Jaimie ...
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