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| US Launched Rocket on Secret Spying Mission |  | NASA's space program is not the only one to carry people and equipment into orbit. There is also the spy-satellite program, which is not so exposed to the media, and not much is disclosed about the secret cargo of some rockets that also take off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
As secret as their cargo is, they can't hide a launch from the press, so the news about the unmanned heavy-lift Atlas 5 rocket tha ... [read more >>] | | 16 June 2007, 06:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Two Small Saturn Moons Found More Active Than Previously Thought |  | Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun, is a gas giant and the second largest in the solar system. As of 2007, a total of 57 individual moons have been identified around the planet, plus 3 unconfirmed moons that could be small dust clumps in the rings. 35 moons have been named. Many of the moons are very small: out of 57, 31 are less than 10 km in diameter, and another 13 less than 50 km.
Tethys and Dione are two small moons, and recent ... [read more >>] | | 14 June 2007, 08:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Ancient Egyptian Settlements Detected by Satellites |  | We do not know if aliens were the ones that built the Egyptian pyramids, bringing their technique from Mars...But space technique is employed now to detect the ancient Egyptian sites.
Satellites have just detected an ancient Egyptian metropolis, located 200 miles (320 km) south of Cairo. Recent digging found indeed a settlement, dating from about 400 A.D.
The satellite mapping is part of a larger project, having the goal ... [read more >>] | | 06 June 2007, 02:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The New View of Titan |  | Titan, Saturn's largest satellite, still holds some exciting surprises, as a new set of images from the European Space Agency show. Until very recently, this atmosphere inhibited understanding of Titan's surface, but the moon is currently undergoing study by the Cassini-Huygens mission and new information about it is accumulating.
Professor John Zarnecki of The Open University led the Surface Science Package (SSP) on Huygens ... [read more >>] | | 04 June 2007, 05:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Toshiba Satellite RG4-E02 Approved by FCC |  | The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has recently approved the Pocket PC phone Toshiba Satellite RG4-E02. The device is actually Toshiba G900, already available in other countries. Now, after FCC’s approval, US customers can enjoy this super phone too, under the name of RG4-E02.
Toshiba Satellite RG4-E02 operates on Windows Mobile 6, it has a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard and an elegant design. A photo and video camer ... [read more >>] | | 03 June 2007, 10:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Saturn: The Freak Show of The Solar System |  | Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun, is a gas giant and the second largest in the solar system. Its weird properties, its rings and its large number of moons – the precise figure is uncertain – make the Saturnian system a freak show, attracting the attention of amateur and professional astronomers worldwide.
First of all, it's not a sphere, being flattened at the poles and bulky at the equator. The Earth is no ... [read more >>] | | 02 June 2007, 07:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Disaster Balloons Maintain Communication During Natural Calamities |  | A new solution has been proposed to keep vital communications running when natural disasters destroy the existing ground-based transmitters and signal amplifiers. It consists of "disaster balloons," that automatically inflate when a natural disaster strikes or seems imminent and deploy communication transmitters until the ground ones are repaired.
Lack of communication right after a natural disaster like a tropical depression ... [read more >>] | | 31 May 2007, 16:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Acquires Panoramio, Prepares Major Update for Google Earth |  | Google finally acquired Panoramio, a company that was the search giant's partner for a long time, providing high-resolution photos for Google Earth. The Spain based website has a huge database of pictures from all around the world, offering information about the geographical location where they were captured. As you might know, Panoramio was an important Google Earth partner because it offered a considerable number of photos ... [read more >>] | | 31 May 2007, 03:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Cassini Images of Sea and Islands on Saturn's Moon, Titan |  | The spacecraft Cassini has just sent in clear photos of a sea on Saturn's moon, Titan, captured during the latest flyby. Also visible in the images are various features characteristic of a coastline, like channels, islands and bays.
Cassini-Huygens is a space mission consisting of two main elements: the NASA Cassini orbiter, named after the Italian-French astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini and the ESA Huygens probe, named after ... [read more >>] | | 25 May 2007, 03:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Gamma-Ray Bursts More Active Than Thought |  | From time to time, a huge explosion followed by a bright flash of light can be observed in space. It's a colossal gamma-ray burst (GRB), emitting for a few seconds as much radiation as a million galaxies.
A new discovery made by NASA's Swift satellite showed that the extremely energetic flares that follow a gamma-ray burst (GRB) are not just space "hiccups", but in fact, they represent a continuation of the burst it ... [read more >>] | | 24 May 2007, 08:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| China Will Launch the First Moon Orbiter |  | An official from the Chinese Space Administration declared that the first step in Moon exploration will take off later this year. It's a Moon orbiter, part of an ambitious Chinese space exploration plan.
The country's lunar ambitions are set out in the "Chang'e Project," named after the Chinese moon goddess. It comprises three stages through 2017.
The next one will be a remote-controlled lunar rover likely t ... [read more >>] | | 21 May 2007, 15:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Secret of Titan's Smog |  | Saturn's moon, Titan, has a strange atmosphere, and astronomers are very interested in finding the source of the phenomena that led to the forming of the only nitrogen-rich mix of gases in the solar system. From this point of view, the atmospheric mixture is somewhat close to that of the Earth in complexity.
Titan is 50 percent larger than our Moon in diameter, and it's even larger by diameter and mass than all known dwarf pla ... [read more >>] | | 17 May 2007, 15:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Look Out! Nigerian Satellite on Chinese Rocket Coming Through |  | Once again, China has proved that it's a force not to be taken lightly. Sure, it's a communist country, but who cares. We all have some piece of electronics with the nice Made in China label that we all know and "love."
Last month, they shot down one of their own satellites with a missile launched from Earth. Now, they launched a new satellite. Only it's not theirs. The Chinese rocket blasted ... [read more >>] | | 14 May 2007, 09:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mars Robot Crisis in NASA Contest |  | On Saturday, six teams announced their presence at a contest named NASA's 2007 Regolith Excavation Challenge that was meant to put to the test some autonomous robots in a hand-to-hand competition to determine which can move the most mock lunar dirt, called regolith, in 30 minutes.
At the Santa Maria Fairpark in Santa Maria, California, a one-ton sandbox was constructed to see who wins the $250,000 prizes. They are split into $150, ... [read more >>] | | 14 May 2007, 09:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Atomic Beating Heart of Galileo |  | For centuries, navigation by ships has depended on clocks. Sailors have depended on latitude and longitude measurements and although altitude is fairly easy to determine through celestial navigation, the measurement of longitude requires accurate measurement of time.
This need was a major motivation for the development of accurate mechanical clocks and it's still a very important one in modern space navigation.
Gali ... [read more >>] | | 14 May 2007, 03:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| A Piece of Space Junk Fell Through a Roof |  | A mysterious silvery space object crashed through the roof of a house.
The owners of a New Jersey home were alarmed by the loud noise coming from the bathroom. First, they thought a piece of the ceiling had fallen. Srinivasan Nageswaran and his family were startled to see a chunk of metal that had crashed through the roof and dented the tile bathroom floor.
The object was slightly bigger than a golf ball and about as heavy as a can ... [read more >>] | | 12 May 2007, 04:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Gravitational Anomalies on Earth – Northern Canada Has a Lower Gravity! |  | Common sense tells us that the Earth's gravitational force should be equal all around the world. Well, it's not! The inhabitants of northern Canada may not be numerous, but they are the slimmest people on the planet.
A new study shows that that specific region of the country feels less gravitational pull than the rest of the planet. They're not exactly floating around like astronauts in space though, since the difference ... [read more >>] | | 11 May 2007, 04:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Free HDTV Using Only Your Roof Antenna |  | So you bought yourself a 40-50 inch High Definition TV, probably paid at least a thousand dollars for it, you got home and something's missing. It's not the instructions manual....it's the antenna!
Don't laugh, because you can receive free HD signals from your local ground amplifier and you don't even know it. And I'm not talking about "borrowing" grandpa's old analog antenna from ... [read more >>] | | 30 April 2007, 05:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Are The U.S. Deploying Satellite Space Weapons? |  | The U.S. perceived China's shutdown of an old communication satellite two months ago using a new missile, (the first successful demonstration of an anti-satellite missile proceeded by any country in more than 20 years) not only as a proof of China's increasing military capabilities and ambitions, but also as a possible threat to its dominance in military space.
So, they are seriously acting accordingly, by first calling for a ... [read more >>] | | 25 April 2007, 04:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Earth Revealed |  | Ever since the Stone Age people started to create maps. The main purpose of map-making was to be aware of your location taking into account, in ancient times, various geographical features. The first world map was made around 600BC in Babylonia called Imago Mundi. Starting with the great discoverers, the technology and accuracy of map drawings had seriously improved.
There were several persons that helped at revealing the shape, charac ... [read more >>] | | 14 April 2007, 11:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Space Solar Power Plant to Transmit Energy to Earth |  | If the problem for renewable and cheap energy sources has got even the military thinking, then there really must be something to it.
Satellites have been known to use solar panels to convert the Sun's energy into electricity, but now, they're about to take a step further.
The The Pentagon’s National Security Space Office may begin a study in the near future on the possibility of using satellites to collect solar energy for ... [read more >>] | | 12 April 2007, 03:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Gigantic Magnetar “Hiccup” Caught on X-Ray Satellites |  | A magnetar is a neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field, the decay of which powers the emission of copious amounts of high-energy electromagnetic radiation, particularly X-rays and gamma-rays.
Astronomers using data from several X-ray satellites have caught a recently discovered magnetar in a sort of giant cosmic hiccup that still has them puzzled.
In multiple reports in the Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices o ... [read more >>] | | 05 April 2007, 06:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Combat in Space or Accident ? |  | A small Russian research satellite has been destroyed last week, and the cause remains unknown. Could it have been researching too much? Or maybe just “researching” the wrong subjects?
Russian space experts are wondering whether the United States used an anti-satellite weapon to destroy their satellite or not.
Guess what?
The claim that the Pentagon intentionally crippled the satellite brought an almost immediate denial from U.S. ... [read more >>] | | 05 April 2007, 04:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| GPS Rendered Useless by Solar Flares |  | Imagine being on a boat, or in a car, in an unfamiliar place, and you're relying on your GPS system to guide you through. Suddenly, it goes blank, and you're lost, because you had the misfortune of not bringing along maps, a compass or a sextant, which you probably wouldn't know how to use, anyway.
GPS receivers have become widely used in recent years, using satellite signals in navigating airplanes, ships and automobile ... [read more >>] | | 05 April 2007, 03:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| “Mechanic” Satellite Peeks Under Its Own Skirt |  | A mechanic satellite designed to refuel and repair a partner in space launched on March 9, but not long after its launch, the satellite, called ASTRO (Autonomous Space Transport Robotic Operations), experienced guidance problems.
The $300 million Orbital Express mission is comprised of the Autonomous Space Transfer and Robotic Orbiter (ASTRO) servicing satellite and the NextSat target satellite. ASTRO is designed to approach NextSat an ... [read more >>] | | 02 April 2007, 05:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| MSV Selects Nortel for Hybrid Satellite-Terrestrial Network Trial |  | Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) announced that it will deploy what is believed to be the first integrated 4G and satellite broadband trial, powered by Nortel mobile WiMAX and IMS technologies. The hybrid satellite-terrestrial trial was announced at CTIA Wireless 2007.
"Th ... [read more >>] | | 30 March 2007, 08:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Inspector Gadget in Space |  | Rob Hoyt, chief executive officer of Tethers Unlimited of Bothell, Washington, US, and his team are gearing up to launch a mission to study just how a tether and spacecraft move together in space.
A tether is a ropelike restraint, 1-kilometer-long, used as a safety measure planned to be used in space, on which a thermos-flask-sized satellite will ride up and down, like a skier in a gondola lift, set to launch on 17 April.
Designed ... [read more >>] | | 29 March 2007, 10:23GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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