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Galileo satellite platform tests under way

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 03, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The engineering model of the first Galileo satellites has completed platform integration tests at the Thales Alenia Space facility in Rome. The platform is now undergoing functional testing. ...

North Pole wolf emails locations to researchers

Biology / Plants & Animals

Dec 01, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 0

In July the scientists, one from the United States, the other from Canada, put the satellite collar on Brutus, the leader of his wolf pack, on remote Ellesmere Island, only 600 miles from the North Pole. Their ...

Digital avalanche rescue dog

Technology / Engineering

Dec 01, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel geolocation system makes use of signals from Galileo, the future European satellite navigation system, to locate avalanche victims carrying an avalanche transceiver or a cellphone, to the precision ...

NRL Sensor Observes First Light

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 02, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

The Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI) developed by NRL's Spacecraft Engineering Department and Space Science Division, launched October 18, 2009 on the U.S. Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite ...

New method of measuring ocean CO2 uptake could lead to climate change 'early warning system'

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Dec 03, 2009 | 1 / 5 (3) | 1

An international team of scientists led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) has developed a new method of measuring the absorption of CO2 by the oceans and mapped for the first time CO2 uptake for the entire North Atlantic.

STPSat-1 successfully completes extended mission

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 02, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

The STPSat-1, built for the Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program (STP) and operated by the DoD STP for the first year then transitioned to NRL for the last 16 months, was decommissioned on October ...

TacSat-4 spacecraft complete and awaiting launch

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 01, 2009 | 1 / 5 (1) | 1

Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) engineers have completed all environmental and performance testing on the TacSat-4 COMMx payload. This completes the entire TacSat-4 spacecraft as the spacecraft bus was completed ...

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