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The European Space Agency (ESA) is scheduled to launch the world's first hydrological satellite on November 2, from its Kourou Space Center, in French Guiana, South America. The instrument will be uniquely equipped to analyze moisture levels on the surface of the planet, AlphaGalileo reports. In charge of invest... |
28 October 2009
16:41 GMT |
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With approximately one week ahead of the much-anticipated launch of Microsoft's next-generation Windows 7 operating system, the industry's major PC vendors are updating their product portfolios with new models that have been optimized for said OS. Such is the case with Toshiba, which has just announced a ma... |
14 October 2009
09:30 GMT |
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Not content with just conquering your browser, your computer, not even the world, Google is now boldly going where no search engine has gone before, outer space, to collect even better data for its Google Maps offering. OK, it isn't Google per se that is leaving the Earth's atmosphere and it isn't the ... |
13 October 2009
04:39 GMT |
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With the launch of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system just around the corner, PC vendors are gearing up to provide customers with updated products that will most likely be featured with the much-anticipated OS. With that in mind, Toshiba, one of the world's leading vendors of portable computer systems, ... |
29 September 2009
04:10 GMT |
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Irvine, California-based Toshiba has just announced a couple of new portable computer systems, part of the company's Satellite family of notebooks. Following the announcement regarding the updated Satellite L-series, the PC vendor has decided to update some of its other Satellite series, including the A, M, P an... |
24 June 2009
06:09 GMT |
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After having introduced its refreshed line of Satellite L-series laptops in the European market, Toshiba has decided it's time to announce an update of the aforementioned series in the US. On that note, the company has recently rolled out a couple of new Satellite L Series laptops, providing the end-users with a... |
24 June 2009
04:52 GMT |
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Toshiba continues to update its line of portable computer systems with the launch of new models in the Satellite series. Following news of the 13-inch U500 and 16-inch A500, the company has now officially announced the release of its new Satellite L500 and L550, two widescreen laptops that will be available in a 15.6... |
11 June 2009
04:27 GMT |
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Toshiba hasn't been so generous with new notebook designs recently, although most of its competitors have already rolled out a couple of new products since the start of the new year. However, the company seems to have learned its lesson and has now introduced a couple of new products in Europe, part of its line ... |
10 June 2009
04:04 GMT |
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Most people know that the far side of the Moon is hidden from us at all times, mostly due to the fact that the celestial body spins around its axis at about the same time it spins around our planet. For a very long time, astronomers wondered what the other side looked like, and these questions started getting answers... |
13 February 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Toshiba’s Digital Products Division announced, just ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, that it was going to introduce a full lineup of consumer electronics and computing products, which would be showcased at the aforementioned computer show. Among some of the products expected to be un... |
8 January 2009
02:31 GMT |
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Regardless of the current season or your location on the globe, the weather affects you, one way or another. If you don't want weather conditions to take you by surprise, make sure you're always up-to-date with the local forecast. It may not always be completely accurate, but it does give you a general idea... |
18 December 2008
12:11 GMT |
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There are extremely few vehicles that can attenuate the bumps and/or noises of a ride, especially when conditions are tougher than normal. And even those cannot reach the dampness level achieved by a novel technology from the French ARTEC Aerospace. The company's experts devised a vibration and acoustic attenuat... |
17 December 2008
10:04 GMT |
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Battles fought in the heights with powerful laser weapons are no longer the product of SF stories, as such a device has recently been tested with success. The Airborne Laser (ABL) was installed on a Boeing 747 airplane and carried aloft, where it fired shortly upon a ground target. Although the laser beam is invisibl... |
16 December 2008
09:32 GMT |
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The city of Kourou in French Guiana is home to the ESA Arianespace spaceport, where almost half of the world's commercial satellites are being launched from. The place is thriving financially, driving a $3.2 billion business, as its location, security, remoteness and competitive prices left the former leading pl... |
15 December 2008
04:49 GMT |
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It seems that the European Space Agency has made a habit out of having its satellites fly in formation, as a result of a successful similar campaign which took place in 2007. This year’s initiative will involve the two satellites from the previous operation, the ERS-2 and the Envisat. Their moving together... |
10 December 2008
06:36 GMT |
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After their recent Kavoshgar-2 rocket mission proved to be a success, as reported by the state media, the Iranian space experts plan for the following similar missions, Kavoshgar-3 and Kavoshgar-4, to carry animals into space prior to switching to manned missions. What kind of animals they are thinking about has not ... |
5 December 2008
03:02 GMT |
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A troubled American satellite belonging to the U.S. Air Force's Defense Support Program (DSP) program is slowly but firmly drifting away from its designated place, high up in the orbit. The unwanted movement of the DSP-23 satellite is prone to endanger the integrity of other expensive and important satellites in... |
3 December 2008
09:22 GMT |
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Relying on a tight budget, a humanitarian project led by Amnesty International and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), is set to monitor some of the zones most threatened by violent activities. The main focus is on the region of Darfur, an independent sultanate in the western part of Sudan... |
10 November 2008
10:21 GMT |
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Obviously and admittedly inspired by the Training Remotes concept (the small droid spheres that helped Luke Skywalker perfect his lightsaber skills) from Star Wars, three autonomous spheres are roaming around the International Space Station. They're even called SPHERES, but not because of an off-moment in terms... |
8 November 2008
05:06 GMT |
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Mobile Satellite Ventures has been a pioneering company in the field of communication systems. In 2003, they received the first Federal Communications Commission license for their hybrid satellite and ground system, but they had been tapping the possibilities of the concept even before that. Among the approved patent... |
7 November 2008
11:16 GMT |
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The old idea of building an ample array of satellites and send them in the orbit of the Earth to collect and transmit energy via microwaves has been added estimative numbers. Although highly feasible in the long run, the project that would change economy, life and environment altogether is still a distant dream for a... |
17 October 2008
06:47 GMT |
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The dwarf planet of Haumea, the third largest in the Kuiper Belt after Pluto and Eris, was discovered a few days after the Christmas of 2004, on December 28th, by Mike Brown, a Caltech scientist. Its observed characteristics indicate that it has a violent past, marked by a massive collision with a similar object bill... |
16 October 2008
08:39 GMT |
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These days, the radar-based air traffic network is very old and outdated, since it is a remnant of the one used in the Second World War. The way it is performed and applied causes a major waste of fuel, money and time, while also proving harmful for the environment because of the pollution generated by the unnecessar... |
10 October 2008
05:50 GMT |
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Since its launch, on September 6th this year, Google's top-notch satellite has constantly been fine-tuned in order to get even more accurate results. The ultra-high definition images that it is able to provide make GeoEye-1 the world's best commercial satellite.The state-of-the-art device's first publi... |
9 October 2008
08:00 GMT |
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As major industry players dive in the adoption and deployment of WiMAX, it appears that some of the first WiMAX-enabled notebooks are beginning to make their debut on the market, thus allowing users to take full advantage of the benefits brought by the next generation WiMAX technology. One of recently introduced WiMA... |
9 October 2008
03:07 GMT |
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Toshiba released yet another 14.1-inch notebook, which is already available for purchase, although the company seems to have omitted to announce it. The Toshiba E105 comes dressed up with style in a fusion finish with copper tones and a backlit keyboard for easy usage in the dark. The notebook, resembling a lot Apple... |
6 October 2008
03:58 GMT |
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The latest advances in technology have allowed Italian researchers to see beneath the soil of the Cahuachi Peruvian desert from satellite heights. Lying deep under the mud, there is a large, ancient adobe pyramid. Scientists Nicola Masini and Rosa Lasaponara from Italy's National Research Council (CNR) have... |
4 October 2008
06:39 GMT |
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Optus, the second largest Australian mobile carrier, has announced that it will start offering two new satellite phones from Thuraya Telecommunications, a well-known satellite mobile services provider. This comes after Optus and Thuraya (based in the United Arab Emirates) have signed an agreement that will bring even... |
1 August 2008
08:40 GMT |
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A division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., the Digital Products Division (DPD), announced this weekend that some of the models included in the Toshiba Satellite series, namely the select ones, will feature the next-generation AMD based notebook platform. Variations of AMD's Athlon Dual Core QL, Tur... |
30 June 2008
02:51 GMT |
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The Van Allen radiation belt consists of two concentric zones inside of which charged subatomic particles are being trapped by Earth's geomagnetic field. The outer belt is able to capture particles from the solar wind and retain them for as long as a week, while the inner belt could keep particles trapped inside... |
9 June 2008
06:11 GMT |
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The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle launched by the India Space Research Organization yesterday at 03:50 GMT from the Sriharikota space station put into orbit no less than 10 satellites in an attempt to overpower the other major competitors in the multi-billion-dollar space market. India benefits from a space program ... |
29 April 2008
05:09 GMT |
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Globular star clusters are believed to be amongst the oldest objects in the universe, some with ages exceeding 13 billion years. They can be usually found in the company of other galaxies as satellites, containing several million stars packed into a very small volume of space. Because they contain some of the first s... |
29 April 2008
03:33 GMT |
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Although this imaging technique has been around for some time, researchers have yet to find a practical application for it. Now, a new study into the generation of such images may open ways towards applying the technique in satellite imaging through clouds or even smoke. Yanhua Shih from the University of Maryland, a... |
24 April 2008
06:27 GMT |
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The Pentagon has decided: out with the Northrup Grumman project and in with Manassas Vulture high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle. The Vulture will be used by the Pentagon as a surveillance and communications aircraft, which can be repositioned on an area of interest and fly high enough to capture a wide view image ... |
23 April 2008
07:22 GMT |
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Elektrobit, a Finland-based company, announced the future release of their first PDA, under the name of "EB Satellite/Terrestrial Reference PDA Phone". Despite this not quite attractive name, the future device will apparently bring together both good looks and advanced functionality and it won't even cost too m... |
23 April 2008
04:39 GMT |
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A few days ago, 13 year-old German Nico Marquardt seemed to have embarrassed all NASA scientists when he announced that the odds of asteroid Apophis hitting the Earth in 2036 have been greatly underestimated. The funny thing is that many sources rushed to state that NASA and the ESA confirmed the schoolboy's res... |
18 April 2008
06:43 GMT |
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2004 MN4, or most popularly known as asteroid 99942 Apophis, is a near Earth asteroid discovered in December 2004. Apophis measures about 400 meters in diameter and upon its discovery, it was given a chance of 2.7 percent that it will hit our planet in 2029. On 19 October 2006, NASA estimated that Apophis had a chang... |
16 April 2008
06:36 GMT |
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United States Air Force Secretary plans to add more satellite clusters and IP routing devices into space, in order to boost the satellites' performance. According to Wynne, the current embedded routing technology is not efficient anymore."Even as we've moved to smaller mission satellites, embedded router te... |
10 April 2008
06:18 GMT |
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Toshiba has just announced an update to its Satellite notebook line, that now comes with enhanced design and increased functionality. The new Satellite offerings sport Toshiba's Fusion Finish in a Horizon pattern, that give the notebooks an unique blend of appearance and texture.The Satellite U400, Satellite M30... |
2 April 2008
06:02 GMT |
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Meteor showers occur on Earth every year. Some individual meteors streaming through the Martian atmosphere have been observed as well, however this is the first time when a full meteor shower is detected. By tracking the paths of the comets passing through the vicinity of Mars, UK scientists believe that they can pre... |
2 April 2008
04:59 GMT |
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Vettore Europeo Di Generazione Avanzata, or Vega for short, is an expendable launch system developed by the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. It is designed to carry satellites with masses between 300 and 2,000 kilograms into space and insert them into polar and low Earth orbits. It consists of thre... |
31 March 2008
06:38 GMT |
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No surprise here! Out of the few couple of millions of objects floating around in Earth's orbit, at least some must come back from time to time. Just last week, a cattle farmer from Australia reported another incident in which a strange object suddenly appeared in a remote region of the northern outback. He beli... |
28 March 2008
06:45 GMT |
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Toshiba has announced a new update to its upcoming Satellite and Satellite Pro machines based on Intel's Centrino 2 platform. However, it seems that the PC vendor rushed in showing the world the next generation of notebooks, because Intel has not finished yet revamping the ex-Montevina platform.According to the ... |
20 March 2008
11:17 GMT |
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Good news for NASA Orbital Debris Program Office. The destruction of the USA-193 spy satellite last month left a minimal field of debris in Earth's orbit, according to Rear Admiral Alan Hicks, responsible for the Pentagon's Aegis ballistic missile defense program. In the outcome of the report release, Admir... |
20 March 2008
06:56 GMT |
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There is an enormous number of objects remnant from previous missions currently orbiting Earth, most of which have the potential of seriously damaging spacecrafts intersecting their trajectories. Only last year, the destruction of China's Fengyun-1C satellite left behind about 150,000 individual objects less tha... |
19 March 2008
11:05 GMT |
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Fifty years ago, on this very day, the Unites States Navy launched the fourth artificial satellite into space, Vanguard 1, the first satellite into Earth's orbit to be powered by sunlight. Its mission was to test the capabilities of a three-staged vehicle and the effects of the space environment on artificial sa... |
17 March 2008
03:41 GMT |
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The Russian-built Proton-M rocket launched from the Kazakhastan Baikonur cosmodrome on Saturday at 02:18 a.m. Moscow time, carrying a U.S. telecommunications satellite, but was unsuccessful in putting it in the planned orbit because of an engine failure. The satellite is owned by the SES Americom telecommunications p... |
15 March 2008
06:35 GMT |
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Exactly a week ago, the state-run Iranian television published a brief news report which stated that Iran had officially opened its first space center and launched its first rocket into space. Not much has been said about the rocket, except that it carried a payload consisting of some scientific instruments to measur... |
11 February 2008
07:17 GMT |
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Astronomers from CSIRO have recently discovered, with the help of radio telescopes at Parkes and Narrabri, that gas coming from the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds is penetrating through the material disk of the Milky Way right over to the other side. Such gas flow observations may eventually provide data that woul... |
4 February 2008
10:56 GMT |
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Iran had a field day on Monday after reporting that it had successfully launched into space its first rocket, thus becoming one of the 11 countries in the world to have capabilities of launching satellites into space. The launch hasn't been confirmed yet by the international community, but could be one of those ... |
4 February 2008
07:23 GMT |
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