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Small Satellite Takes on Large Thunderstorms

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 - 14:07:09 - Anuradha Menon

Firefly, it's called, this new small satellite mission sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). It's designed to help solve the mystery of...

Cheap Satellite Bandwidth For All

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 - 18:49:37 - Anuradha Menon

Technology developed by European researchers promises to dramatically lower the costs of satellite bandwidth, potentially bridging the digital divide...

Stellar Stethoscope Pushes the Envelope

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 - 16:13:09 - Ehud Rattner

Like a gigantic bell, the sun reverberates at myriad frequencies, and by studying such oscillations, scientists have deciphered the structure of the...

Superbird-7 and AMC-21 in Orbit

Saturday, August 16th, 2008 - 14:09:27 - Anuradha Menon

On Thursday evening, August 14, Arianespace orbited two communications satellites, primarily intended for TV broadcast services: Superbird-7 for...

ESA's Gravity Mission 'GOCE'
Monday, August 11th, 2008 - Ehud Rattner
In September 2008 the European Space Agency plans to launch a satellite called the Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean...

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Cluster Satellites Listen to Earth's Sounds

Sunday, June 29th, 2008 - 10:22:25 - Ehud Rattner

The first thing an alien race is likely to hear from Earth is chirps and whistles, a bit like R2-D2, the robot from Star Wars. In reality, they are...

Could Orbiting Robots Repair Satellites?

Sunday, June 29th, 2008 - 08:16:10 - Ehud Rattner

Fewer astronauts, more robots. That's the call from three European aerospace engineers, who argue that crewed satellite repair missions - like the...

NASA Launches Ocean Level Satellite

Friday, June 20th, 2008 - 23:57:49 - Iddo Genuth

A new NASA-French space agency oceanography satellite launched today from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on a globe-circling voyage to continue...

First US Army Satellite Launch in 50 Years

Sunday, June 15th, 2008 - 16:08:24 - Iddo Genuth

After a 50-year hiatus from launching its own satellites, the United States Army plans to build and launch miniature communications satellites. As...

GLAST – Exploring the Extreme Universe
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 - Amir Yativ
NASA has developed a new observatory telescope that could help scientists understand some of our universe’s best-kept...