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Trains To Get High Speed Internet Via Satellites, Courtesy Indian Space Res
2012-05-02 08:40:00 It is newly reported that Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has allowed the use of satellites to beam high speed internet directly onto moving trains. According to the news, Indian Railways will use the KU Band to make availability of broadband speed in trains like the Rajdhani. Exactly a year ago, the Railways had finally received the financial backing of Rs. 6.3 Crores (US$ 1.2 Million) to introduce WiFi Connectivity on trains. How will the system work? As this is a pilot project only 3 coaches of the Howrah Rajdhani will have such connectivity. This will establish a direct link up with the satellite. Once the link is good, the coaches will have internet connectivity through WiFi. Interestingly, passengers are not being charged for this service, yet. Railway stations are already being connected to such services. A while ago, they had initiated a project to link their trains with GPS for accurate position information. Indian railways are by far the most ...
By: WATblog
US Disposable War-Satellites Idea
2012-03-14 20:41:00 From BBC News - Science & Environment: The Pentagon may commission squads of short-life satellites to provide soldiers with tactical imagery at the push of a button. Read the whole article
Satellites Spy On Europe's Farms
2012-02-08 14:24:00 From BBC News - Science & Environment: Farmers who claim more EU subsidies than they should, or who break Common Agricultural Policy rules, are now more likely to be caught out by a camera in the sky than an inspector calling with a clipboard. How do they feel about being watched from ab
Beijing Launches GPS Rival ? WSJ.com
2011-12-28 08:23:00 He said China had so far launched 10 satellites for the Beidou [Compass] system, including one this month, and planned to put six more in orbit in 2012 to enhance the system’s accuracy and expand its service to cover most of the Asia Pacific region. The system isn’t as believed to be as accurate as ...
By: 1913 Intel
Chinese Officials Deny Hacking U.S. Environment-Monitoring Satellites
2011-11-02 18:40:00 From Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now: Beijing officials are denying accusations the Chinese military interfered with two U.S. Earth-monitoring satellites, the wires are reporting today. On Friday, a draft report to Congress said at least two satellites were
EU to Launch First Two Galileo Satellites Today, as Sat-Nav System Lurches
2011-10-21 18:10:00 From Engadget: The EU's Galileo satellite navigation system has been beset by delays and budget overruns in recent months, but its future is looking slightly brighter, now that its first two satellites are primed for launch. Read the whole article
Are Murdoch's Sky Satellites Spy Satellites?
2011-07-25 10:40:00 According to an article in last Friday's London Evening Standard, the term 'pinging' means locating a mobile phone by satellite. Now Wireless Waffle has previously explained that GPS satellites can not track your location due to the fact that they only transmit location information, not receive it. So how did the News of the World manage to 'ping' the location of a mobile phone using satellite?As it couldn't have been GPS, the most obvious solution is that the satellites used to deliver Sky television are not just 'Sky satellites' but 'spy satellites' too! For this to work, the satellites concerned would have to be able to receive a signal from the phone being tracked, identify the direction from which the signal was being received, and then triangulate this through measurements from a number of different locations. Let's take these one at a time. A geostationary satellite can 'see' about a third of the surface ar...
By: Wireless Waffle
Swarm of Net Satellites Planned
2011-01-20 14:23:00 From BBC News - Technology: A Canadian company announces a plan to put 78 small satellites in orbit to link remote regions to the internet's fibre backbone. Read the whole article
Russia Sends Sweet Satellites
2010-05-24 00:33:00 I think of myself as a candy connoisseur. I like to try new varieties and alternate brands. I sometimes rate candy on categories like texture, lasting flavor, flavor peak, replay value, and, of course, tongue stain. The bluer the better. (This odd opening has an even stranger transition into capitalism) Our American economic system is a marvel. It ranks as both the best country in the world to do business with, and the best country for entrepreneurs. It was just in the late ?90s that Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google, one of my favorite companies along with Amazon, Facebook, and any firm that makes 3-pound bags of gummy bears. Now, Google ranks 102 in largest American companies by revenue (Forbes), but way higher in terms of profit and market capitalization. Capitalism has its downsides, though, and none more observable than in the candy industry. Once upon a time there were thousands of confectioner companies making unique candies and chocolates. Because of the internet,...
Download Loose Screwz 'Satellites' mixtape
2010-03-29 22:34:00 Download the 'Satellites' mixtape from Loose Screwz.
Gravity Satellites Show a Huge Groundwater Loss in California
2009-12-17 15:32:00 From Discover Magazine | rsslist: Groundwater levels around the country have been sinking as wells for drinking water and irrigation pull water out of aquifers faster than they can naturally recharge. Now, using gravity-measuring satellites, NASA and California researchers have doc
India Launches Seven Satellites: Space Agency
2009-09-23 14:55:00 From Yahoo! News: Science News: India successfully launched seven satellites including six from foreign countries on Wednesday, officials said, underlining the country's ambitions in the space business. About a month after its first moon mission was aborted, the country's space
ISRO Plan To Launch Satellites To Facilitate Rural India – Is Immedia
2009-09-07 14:53:00 Something from the outer space, International Space Station and Discovery shuttle will soon get back from space after they accomplish their new mission. And, this time they’re out there to collect a ton of space station junk, surplus gear and completed science experiment apparatus. On the other side India’s maiden moon mission Chandrayaan I is still collecting data and analysis about what went wrong. Apparently its going to take another couple of years, may be. ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair said, “We had anticipated some problems at the beginning and wanted to complete important experiments much earlier. About 95% of data collection has been completed and analysis will take another six months to two years.” After ISRO’s launch of Bhuvan, India’s version of Google Earth there has been hardly any progress from their end. Recently ISRO announced that they’ll design a satellite for villages to get connectivity. More than about 50,000 villages out ...
By: WATblog
New Plasma Thruster Powers a Coke Can Rocket and Could Power Satellites
2009-02-25 15:25:00 From Discover Magazine | RSS: Blogs / 80beats « Obsessive Compulsive Sufferers May Find Relief With a "Brain Pacemaker" North Korea's Planned Satellite Launch Sounds More Like a Missile Test » New Plasma Thruster Powers a Coke Can Rocket—and Could Power Satellites A min
British Government to Launch Satellites Into Orbit on the Back of Virgin Ga
2009-02-20 19:01:00 From Gizmodo: Looks like the WhiteKnightTwo won't be all play after all, as the British government wants to use Virgin Galactic's spacecraft to send some state satellites into low orbit. According to Flight Global, The Government wants to develop a rocket, dubbed "LauncherOne,"
Debris Spews Into Space After Satellites Collide
2009-02-13 15:00:00 From NYT > Science: For decades, space experts have warned of orbits around the planet growing so crowded that two satellites might one day slam into one another, producing swarms of treacherous debris. It happened Tuesday. And the whirling fragments could pose a threat to the I
Satellites, Balloons, and Math used to Count Inauguration Crowd
2009-01-21 14:57:00 From CNET News.com: U.S. President Barack Obama was sworn in on Tuesday in Washington. But the number of people who braved the frigid D.C. weather to watch the historic event could have been anywhere between 800,000 and 3 million, depending on who you talk to. Researchers have p
how clearly can satellites seeeee?
2009-01-13 12:02:00 I was wondering if a "spy" satellite could be used to focus lets say over a large city and see (and record) such definition as a man walking his dog? So for instance it would be possible to choose a location at random and see what hapened there 6 weeks ago at 12noon. This info could be use
A Plasma Cloak Surrounds the Earth
2008-12-13 00:07:00 A detailed analysis of the measurements of five different satellites has revealed the existence of warm cloak of plasma around Earth. This newfound feature is part of the magnetosphere, a shield of magnetic fields and electrically charged particles that surround and protect Earth from the onslaught of the solar wind. The northern and southern polar lights ? ...
By: Factsbuffet.com
Integral (ISYS): Soar with satellites
2008-07-16 01:00:00 Warning that "risk is very high in just about every sector ," Dennis Slothower (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/ccount/click.php?id=2191) still finds value in satellite systems maker Integral Systems (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/quote.htm?sym=isys) (NASDAQ: ISYS (http://www.thestockadvisors.co-m/quote.htm?sym=isys)),his latest "stock of the month."In Stealth Stocks (http://www.stealthstocksonline-.com/index.aspx?page=ECapture&r-=TheStockAdvisors), he explains, "Integral is one of the 100 fastest-growing technology companies and is placed in both the aerospace and defense sector." Here's his review."The Maryland company was incorporated in 1982, and builds satellite ground systems and equipment for command and control, integration and test, data processing, and simulation. "Since inception, it has provided ground systems for over 200 different satellite missions for communications, science, meteorology and earth resource applications. "ISYS has established a domestic and intern...
Anyone remember the Satellites?
2008-05-28 11:29:00 Received this email from Sunny Portugal the other day.Can anyone help?Hi AlanI played in the Satellites in the sixties and can remember the punishing schedules at the time. I remember one week when I had seven hours sleep. We played with the Animals as support at Bellingham town hall on the Friday when "House of the rising sun" was released. We went on the Geordie beat tour with four other bands, Paul Ryan and the Streaks, Kim and the kinetics, and the VIPs. My memory will not recall the last band. Apologies. The tour consisted of The Merseys, The Fortunes, The Naturals, Little Eva, Lulu and the Luvvers and Joe Cocker on his first tour. Can anyone remember us?Cheers--- from PortugalPeter Johnson
U.S. cites growing China space and cyber threat
2008-05-21 05:39:00 The U.S. military painted China on Tuesday as posing a growing threat to the United States and others in space and cyberspace. China is “aggressively” honing its ability to shoot down satellites along with other space and counter-space capabilities, said Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Horne of the U.S. Strategic Command. Read More…
By: 1913 Intel
Hypersonic version of BrahMos undergoes successful lab test
2008-05-13 14:53:00 According to Dr Pillai, the Brahmos hypersonic version will not only have higher speed, but will also consume less fuel and require less operational time to deploy. These qualities are expected to provide the missile longer range, and also ensure less reaction time from the enemy. High speeds also make the missile difficult to detect, and ...
By: 1913 Intel
China plans own-brand GPS by 2010
2008-05-08 14:46:00 Chinese officials at the Toulouse Space Show have announced plans to put an Asia-wide satellite positioning system in place by 2010 to work alongside the US GPS and European Galileo programmes. The Beidou/Compass system already has four satellites in position. It will be free to use, but will include an encrypted channel for “authorised” users. Read More…
By: 1913 Intel
ISRO creates history by launching 10 satellites
2008-04-29 00:00:00 India became the worlds second country to put 10 or more satellites into orbit, after Russia. After their recent success, they are now aiming to launch their moon mission Chandrayaan-I in the third quarter of this year.
One PSLV rocket Monday will carry 10 satellites
2008-04-27 14:00:00 Chennai, April 27 (IANS) One of the three “core alone” Polar Satellite Launch Vehicles (PSLV) to blast off Monday from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh will carry the heaviest luggage - 824 kg - comprising the remote sensing Cartosat-2A satellite, the Indian Mini Satellite and eight nano satellites. According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), core ...
By: Latest News
Espace : La Nasa projette de dvelopper de trs petits satellites
2008-04-26 22:00:00 Le Centre de recherche Ames de l'agence spatiale des Etats-Unis (Nasa) a dclar jeudi qu'il cooprera avec m2mi Corp., une compagnie base en Californie, afin de dvelopper de trs petits satellites, appels "nanosatellites". "La Nasa veut cooprer avec des compagnies pour dvelopper une nouvelle conomie dans l'espace", a dclar le directeur du Centre des recherches Ames, Pete Worden, ajoutant que "m2mi Corp. dispose de technologies avances qui rpondent parfaitement nos objectifs, tout en promouvant la commercialisation des technologies dveloppes par la Nasa".
Espace : Le Vietnam est capable de fabriquer des satellites de petites tail
2008-04-18 15:45:00 Le Vietnam fabriquera et lancera de petits satellites de tldtection dans les annes venir, rapporte vendredi le quotidien local Saigon Liberation. L'Institut des technologies spatiales relevant de l'Acadmie des sciences du Vietnam entend raliser la fabrication d'un satellite de moins d'un kilo cette anne, avec l'assistance de l'Agence de l'exploration spatiale du Japon, et le mettra en orbite en 2010, a annonc le directeur adjoint de l'institut, Pham Anh Tuan, cit par le journal.
4 Satellites redesigned by Toshiba intros sleep-and-charge USB
2008-04-04 16:35:00 Toshiba is showing off its design prowess and introducing four redesigned Satellite laptops, and as of today Toshiba?s 13.3 inch display U400, 14.1 inch display M300, 15.4 inch display A300, and the 17 inch display P300 will include a slight change in their makeup with Toshiba?s Feather-Touch multimedia keys, Fusion Finish, built-in Dolby Sound Room ...
By: Cheap Laptops
21st Century Dungeons + Dragons = Satellites & Soldiers? The Occult of
2008-04-04 04:16:00 Skulls. Black cats. A naked woman riding a killer whale. Snakes. Swords. Occult symbols. A wizard with a staff that shoots lightning bolts. A dragon holding the Earth in its claws.No, this is not the fantasy world of a 12-year-old boy. It is ... part of the hidden reality behind the Pentagon’s classified, or “black,” budget that delivers billions of dollars to stealthy armies of high-tech warriors.[A new] book offers a glimpse of this dark world through a revealing lens — patches — the kind worn on military uniforms.Trevor Paglen, an artist and photographer finishing his Ph.D. in geography at the University of California, Berkeley, has managed to document some of this hidden world. The 75 patches he has assembled reveal a bizarre mix of high and low culture.“Oderint Dum Metuant,” reads a patch for an Air Force program that mines spy satellite images for battlefield intelligence, according to Mr. Paglen, who identifies he saying as from Caligula, the first-cent...
By: Bajan Reporter
Satellites Help Arctic Grazers
2008-03-21 00:00:00 Global Warming News : Satellites Can Help Arctic Grazers Survive Killer Winter Storms Rain falling on snow sounds like a relatively harmless weather event, but when it happens in the far north it can mean lingering death for reindeer, musk oxen and other animals that normally graze on the Arctic tundra. That ...
Locating Satellites
2008-03-12 14:40:00 When i start to navigate the GPS does not locate satellites - any suggestions?
By: Fixya.com
New discovery at Jupiter could help protect Earth-orbit satellites
2008-03-10 15:23:00 Radio waves accelerate electrons within Jupiter's magnetic field in the same way as they do on Earth Radio waves accelerate electrons within Jupiter?s magnetic field in the same way as they do on Earth, according to new research published in Nature Physics this week. The discovery overturns a theory that has held sway for more than a generation and has important implications for protecting Earth-orbiting satellites. Using data collected at Jupiter by the Galileo spacecraft, Dr Richard Horne of British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and colleagues from the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Iowa found that a special type of very low frequency radio wave is strong enough to accelerate electrons up to very high energies inside Jupiter?s magnetic field. According to lead author, Dr Richard Horne, ?We?ve shown before that very low frequency radio waves can accelerate electrons in the Earth?s magnetic field, but we have now shown that exactly the same theory works...
By: science life
U.S. display of antisatellite capability leaves rivals uneasy
2008-02-23 05:48:00 The missile-defense interceptor was converted to an antisatellite capability in little more than a month. No expensive research and development program. No battles with Congress over money. No starting from scratch on white boards in some lab. This demonstration of military agility has to give any adversary pause. “This was uncharted territory,” said General James Cartwright ...
By: 1913 Intel
Direct Hit! Raw Video Shows Navy Missile Destroying Doomed Satellite
2008-02-22 03:53:00 Watch two videos - one showing the missile launch and the other showing the satellite interception. See video here!
By: 1913 Intel
Video: Pentagon Scores Direct Hit On Satellite
2008-02-21 18:00:00 addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehotjoints.-com%2F2008%2F02%2F21%2Fvideo-pe-ntagon-scores-direct-hit-on-sat-ellite%2F'; addthis_title = 'Video%3A+Pentagon+Scores+Direc-t+Hit+On+Satellite'; addthis_pub = ''; Related PostsGold Star Mother Debbie Lee Sticks It To The Berkeley City CouncilPentagon To Shoot Down Broken SatelliteVideo: Berkeley City Council Slanders MilitarySpy Satellite Falling From OrbitPentagon Plans “Mini-Surge” of U.S. Troops in Afghanistan
By: The Hot Joints
US Hits Rogue Spy Satellite With Missile
2008-02-21 15:41:00 The US Defense Department said late Wednesday it had successfully used a ship-board missile to shoot down an out-of-control spy satellite before it plummeted to Earth. “At approximately 10:26 pm today (0326 GMT Thursday), a US Navy Aegis warship, the USS Lake Erie, fired a single modified tactical standard missile 3, hitting the satellite ...
By: 1913 Intel
Effort to Shoot Down Satellite Could Inform Military Strategy
2008-02-20 14:47:00 The Bush administration’s attempt to shoot down an out-of-control spy satellite as early as this evening will help the military advance its anti-missile and anti-satellite planning and technology, according to space weapons experts and analysts. Both fields are of high interest to the military and of high concern for many other nations. While U.S. officials have ...
By: 1913 Intel
How satellites saved the world
2008-02-19 15:53:00 Earth-observing satellites have been lifesavers for the past 50 years, and now scientists are working to make sure the next generation of orbital sentinels will continue the legacy.
China concerned by U.S. satellite missile plan
2008-02-17 20:26:00 China is concerned by U.S. plans to shoot down an ailing spy satellite and is considering what “preventative measures” to take, the Foreign Ministry said on Sunday. “The Chinese government is paying close attention to how the situation develops and demands the U.S. side fulfill its international obligations and avoids causing damage to security in outer ...
By: 1913 Intel
Russia: U.S. Plan to Shoot Down Damaged Spy Satellite Could Be Missile Test
2008-02-17 00:46:00 MOSCOW ? Russia’s Defense Ministry said Saturday that U.S. military plans to shoot down a damaged spy satellite carrying toxic fuel could be a veiled test of U.S. missiles’ capability to down enemy satellites. The Ministry accused the U.S. military of failing to provide “enough arguments” to back its plan to smash the satellite next ...
By: 1913 Intel
Pentagon reveals plans to shoot down spy satellite
2008-02-15 15:05:00 Pentagon reveals plans to shoot down spy Times Online,UK- 3 hours ago US officials say that the craft carries no nuclear material. USA 193 was launched on December 14, 2006, from the Vandenberg US Air Force Base in California. … US officials say broken satellite will be shot down International Herald Tribune US will shoot down plummeting satellite International ...
By: 1913 Intel
Pentagon To Shoot Down Broken Satellite
2008-02-14 23:19:00 President Bush has authorized the Pentagon to perform the first ever shoot down of a broken satellite in space. The busted satellite is falling out of orbit and straight back to earth, but the problem according to the President is that it’s filled with rocket fuel. Much of the 5,000 pound satellite is expected to survive ...
By: The Hot Joints
Putin: Russia Will Target Former Satellites If Necessary in Liberals Versus
2008-02-14 00:00:00 fellfire, 14/02/08 (3 Replies)
IC-375 delivered from Japan
2008-02-13 01:32:00 This unit belong to JR1WZI Mr. Arai-san, he send it over to 9M2IDJ house in Japan to be hand carry back to Malaysia by IDJ-san.I?m being waiting this unit to arrive and it has finally reached my hand today when I meet IDJ-san for a dinner to discuss about DX in Malaysia. At the same time he hands over it to me.This unit carries Japan frequency which support from 430 up to 440Mhz. Suitable for Satellite communication especially LEO satellite either uplink or downlink frequency that falls within that range. Further these transceivers have all mode support - FM, LSB, USB and CW and this add a plus for me.This unit carries japanese frequency and only support 430 ~ 440Mhz. Suitable for Satellite communication on the LEO satellite either uplink or downlink frequency falls within that range. Further these transceiver has all mode support - FM, SSB and CW and this add a plus for me.Let me see what I bird that I can test it out:AO-16: uplink 145.920Mhz FM, downlink 437.026Mhz USBVO-52: uplin...
ISS repeater contact is valid for JAMSAT Award
2008-02-07 14:39:00 This JAMSAT 5 Stars Award is issued by Japan AMSAT AssociationAnd now they have include ISS Repeater contact as a valid contact for this JAMSAT 5 Stars Award.In order to obtain this Award, Applicant has to have confirm QSO with five different stations over five different Satellite and ISS is one of them. Total 25 QSL Cards are required.Looks like I have another satellite to be cover.73!
Track the positions of satellites in the sky with Orbitron
2008-02-07 06:21:00 Did you ever wanted to know which satellites are over your head at the precise moment? Did you ever wonder where the International Space Station could be right now? Do you want to catch a glimpse of it in the night sky? The answers to all these questions can be found in this wonderful tool called Orbitron. Orbitron is a satellite tracking system for radio amateur and observing purposes. This software is more than 10 years old and has been used by weather professionals, satellite communication... ...
By: Instant Fundas
Russia says Iran rocket raises nuclear suspicion
2008-02-06 18:05:00 Russia said on Wednesday Iran’s test launch of a rocket raised suspicions about the real nature of Tehran’s atomic programme, in what could signal a hardening of its stance towards the Islamic Republic Iran launched a rocket on Monday designed to carry its first locally-made research satellite next year, showing the country’s advances in ballistics at ...
By: 1913 Intel
Iran?s Satellite Program Is `Troubling Development,? U.S. Says
2008-02-05 14:22:00 Iran’s new space center built to send a research satellite into orbit is a “troubling development” because it employs the same technology used for producing long- range ballistic missiles, the U.S. State Department said. Read More… Iran fires rocket ‘into space’, plans satellite for ‘09 Register, UK - 45 minutes ago Iran already claims intermediate-range ballistic missile capability which ...
By: 1913 Intel
Congress Investigates 3Com\?s Purchase by Bain, Huawei
2008-02-03 10:18:00 A U.S. House committee is investigating the proposed $2.2 billion acquisition of 3Com Corp. by Bain Capital LLC and China\’s Huawei Technologies Co., a deal that has sparked national-security concerns in Washington. Read More
By: 1913 Intel
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