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• in Technology
  Occupation of the Near Future: Orbital Garbageman
  Everything that goes up... must eventually come down, somewhere.
  by steadwell / on Jul 2, 2011
• in Green
  Green Planet, Green Outer Space
  Time to clean up space, that is anything but empty.
  by yihyeewong / on May 23, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “satellites”

 

• A Video of a Satellite Breaking up Over Chile

  
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• Protecting Satellites in Orbit

  
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  Carter said the US has established an integrated effort to in understanding the anti-satellite threat, and preparing a work plan on how the US can operate without spacecraft,” Carter told reporters at the National Press Club. i-hls reports.... Read the whole post...   »             ...
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• GPS Technology Used to Locate (Secret) Nuclear Test Sites

  
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  North Korea, and other countries developing similar programs, will no longer be able to test nuclear devices below the earth’s surface without being discovered, thanks to GPS technology. The same method involving the technology has also been used in the past to detect tsunamis, as well as major seismic and volcanic ...
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• NASA launches three smartphone-powered satellites into space

  
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  NASA has successfully launched three smartphones into space to snap images of Earth, and the handsets may prove to be the lowest-cost satellites ever flown into space. Each smartphone is housed in a standard cubesat structure, measuring about 4 inches … Continue reading →
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• Internet Service on Planes: FCC to Consider Using Satellite Airwaves

  
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  In-flight Internet speeds could rival those on the ground under a proposal expected to move forward on Thursday. U.S. airlines have been rolling out Internet service on flights for several years. But the service, which typically uses Earth-based antennas, is often too slow for today’s data-guzzling Web apps. Read ...
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• Turn your satnav idea into business

  
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  Ready to take the next step with your satnav idea? ESA’s business incubation centres are offering help through this year’s European Satellite Navigation Competition. For the tenth time, the competition is calling for services, products and business innovations that use satellite-based navigation to improve ...
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• Orbcomm: World’s Largest Container Tracker

  
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  Orbcomm , the low earth orbit messaging satellite company, specializing in two-way Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, today announced that its ReeferTrak platform has been selected by seven new domestic and international transportation and logistics companies. ReeferTrak enables customers to proactively ...
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• Cubesat with electric sail is in orbit

  
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  The Estcube cubesat satellite with a 10 meter electric sail is in orbit now. ESTCube-1 is the first Estonian satellite and it was built in Estonia by students from Tartu University, Estonian Aviation Academy, Tallinn University of Technology and University of Life Sciences. The project started in 2008 and is now ...
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• Scramjet Hits Mach 5.1

  
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  On May 1, the last X-51A got its chance to soar, reaching Mach 5.1 , during a record 370-second flight, notes Engadget . The third X-51A WaveRider failed to reach hypersonic speed due to a fin failure last August. According to the Wright Patterson Air Force base , the flying bomb hit Mach 4.8 about 26 seconds ...
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• NASA Sends Smartphone Satellites Into Orbit

  
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  Even if it is easy to get bad reception on earth, once a signal exists the atmosphere it travels without resistance. The probe that NASA landed on Saturn’s moon Titan wasn’t any stronger than a modern day cellphone. And so NASA thought, why not make satellites out of cheaper components. Like a mobile phone ...
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• Consumer Grade Smartphone satellites go into orbit and send back pictures to amateur radio operators and NASA

  
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  For about one week, engineers at NASAs Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., and amateur radio operators around the world collaborated to reconstruct an image of Earth sent to them from three smartphones in orbit. The joint effort was part of NASAs nanosatellite mission, called PhoneSat, which launched on ...
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• Nexus One phones send back photos of Earth after six days in orbit

  
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  Most people just want their smartphones to take great pictures of their dogs or their kids’ soccer games . NASA is a bit more ambitious. The space agency today released photos that three smartphones took from their orbit around Earth . The phones used were the HTC Nexus One from Google running ...
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• NOAA touts GOES-R sensor readiness

  
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  The first of six instruments to fly on the first in a planned constellation of four geostationary weather satellites is ready for installation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration  announced  May 2.
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• On a lighter note: Pentagon sheepishly admits to using Chinese satellite

  
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  As China flexes its financial,military and political might and continues to make border and island incursions into the disputed terrotories held by its neighbours (India, Vietnam, Japan. Philippines, Taiwan etc), fears remain that China may one day resort to full blown military action, especially if Chinas own ...
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• Something strange? While Antares 110 hit its mark most of its payloads are no longer in orbit

  
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  While Orbital Sciences Corp was rightly congratulated by NASA for its successful launch of its Antares 110 launch vehicle, there is something strange about the fate of its satellite payloads.  Specifically, four out of the five (the Cygnus Mass Simulator, the Dove 1 triple-cubesat sized satellite, and Phonesat ...
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• Sea Launch failure cause confirmed: it was the steering pressurisation pump

  
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  The Zenit 3-SL (Sea Launch) launch failure which caused the total loss of the Intelsat 27 communications satellite was caused by a fault in the rockets steering system.  A failure investigation, whose conclusions were confirmed by a Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB), found that first stage hydraulic power ...
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• Herschel Space Observatory mission over as it runs out of helium coolant

  
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  The mission of the Herschel Space Observatory was formally declared over after liquid helium coolant ran out.  Launched, in May 2009, the European Space Agencys Herschel Space Observatory along with its 3.5 metre diameter mirror and extremely sensitive scientific instruments made it the most powerful infrared ...
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• All contact is lost with "smart phone in orbit" Strand 1

  
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  All contact with the experimental cubesat Strand 1 has been lost since late March. The exact cause of the failure has not been disclosed,  Launched on 25 February as one of the payloads on board an Indian PSLV C Series CA (Core Alone) launch vehicle, the Strand1 (Surrey Training Research adn Nanosatellite ...
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• Small ones are better: large aircraft carriers are too vulnerable to satellite-guided missiles says report

  
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  Flightglobal Hyperbola previously  noted the danger of the Royal Navy having just a two large aircraft carriers given that the new Queen Elizabeth-class may be vulnerable to a new type of satellite-directed ballistic anti-ship missile (e.g. Chinas DF-21D).  Nevertheless, we did point out that in deciding ...
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• Dubaisat-3 construction started

  
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  During April, the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) has announced the start of the development of the DubaiSat-3.  Construction of the Earth observation satellite is to started in South Koreas SATREC  but completed at EIAST,  The 350kg spacecraft which is set to have a resolution ...
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