KOUROU, French Guiana (AFP) – An Ariane rocket placed two Eutelsat Communications satellites, Hot Bird 9 and W2M, into orbit after blasting off Saturday from Kourou space centre in French Guiana, Arianespace announced.The launch of the rocket, the sixth Ariane this year, took place at 2235 GMT after a 45-minute delay in the countdown caused by a problem connected with the feed of liquid hydrogen
The basic concept of communications satellites:
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Now Google is on a new mission to provide high speed internet access to all even those who are not connected till now in the world. In venture with HSBC and Liberty Global it has come up with a startup named O3b networks which clearly means for Other 3 billion people who still can’t have proper access to the Internet. This will be accomplished with an equipment of 16 satellites which are of low
Link of the day - Who Is Shawn Casey? Is He For Real?FRESNO, Calif. — Scientists plan to use satellite photos to count Giant Kangaroo Rats, the first-ever monitoring of an endangered species from outer space.Scientists will examine images taken from the same satellite used by Israeli defense forces to find the circular patches of earth denuded by the rats as they gather food around their burrow
Google is backing a multi-million pound plan to use satellites to provide internet access to three billion people in Africa and other emerging markets.
The company has teamed up with HSBC and cable television company Liberty Global to set up 03b Networks.
They are expected to announce an order for 16 low-earth orbit [...]
Timeline of artificial satellites and space probesSee also: Space Race The first artificial satellite was Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957, and that started the whole Soviet Sputnik program, with Sergei Korolev as chief designer. This triggered the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States.Sputnik 1 helped to identify the density of high atmospheric layers
Satellites And The Internet: Challenges And Solutions (Paperback)By D. C. Palter
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It’s hard to keep a secret when that darn sun keeps lighting up your position in orbit! Is/was there really any point to making the existence of these satellites secret? I can understand wanting the launches to be secret, but good luck trying to fool China or another paranoid country into thinking that they aren’t [...]
We always hear about UFO invaders and space ships from other planets but we did not think of us being invaders..?!! There are approximately 6000 satellites around earth in space, the photo speaks by it self.
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From MySpace - The U.S.space-rock program: Never mind those pictures from Mars; they look like holiday snaps from Dry Gulch,Ariz. More impressive are the mercury-bubble pools of guitar and the shattered-glass sparkle of the choruses on All About Satellites and Spaceships (x-ray,cd),by the Texas-based quartet 7% Solution.(Rock-crit sound bite: More-era Pink Floyd through soft light.)Certainly the m
From Watts Up With That’s website: from the looks of that graph, provided by the University of Alabama at Huntsville, 2008 has been consistently cooler than 2007 by between 1/4 and 1/2 degree fahrenheit. More evidence of global cooling. Gore can blame it on La Nina, but we can blame 1998 on El Nino.
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Today you probably did something, like check the weather, that would have been impossible without an automated spacecraft orbiting hundreds of miles above your head. But how many of these satellites do you know by name? Here are the ten you need to know, because they make modern life possible.read more | digg story
ISRO has silently created a history in space science and research when India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) placed two Indian and eight foreign satellites into their orbits some 600 km above earth. Under the leadership of Dr. Madhavan Nair a group of ISRO scientists achieved this success. The main job of these satellites is [...]
An Indian rocket has blasted off and successfully launched a cluster of 10 satellites in a single mission, marking a milestone for the country's 45-year-old space programme. The PSLV rocket lifted off Monday morning from the Sriharikota space station in southern India carrying an Indian remote-sensing satellite, a mini satellite and eight so-called nanosatellites developed by German and Canadian
SRIHARIKOTA: Setting a world record, India’s Polar rocket on Monday successfully placed ten satellites, including the country’s remote sensing satellite, into orbit in a single mission. ( Watch )
The ten pack launch of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) saw the 230-tonne Polar Satellite launch Vehicle (PSLV-C9) carry the heaviest luggage–824 kgs–and put [...]
Today, April 28th 2008, India’s 230 tonne Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C9) successfully placed ten satellites, including the country’s remote sensing satellite, into orbit in a single mission, thus setting up a world record!
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The ten pack launch of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) saw the 230-tonne Polar Satellite launch [...]
India’s space agency launched 10 satellites on Monday mainly belonging to Germany and Canada, the Indian Space Research Organisation said, boosting its space research capabilities..
The satellites were carried into space by India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle which blasted off from a space centre off the country’s eastern coast near the southern city of Chennai.
“The launches [...]
Por fin tenemos noticias de Satellites...Os dejo por aquí el primero de una serie de EPs en los que mostrarán al fin lo que han estado grabando entre Londres y Mallorca estos últimos años. En breve sacaran otro ep.Espero que os guste.1. Torna2. Where All the Promises Go3. Instrumental #24. Flamenco5. Mirror's Funhouse6. I Ask to the Stars://www.myspace.com/satelliteslondon
An Ariane-5 rocket blasted off from French Guiana on Friday putting into orbit telecommunications satellites for Brazil and Viet Nam, a space official said.
The rocket was launched from Europe's space base in Kourou, on the northeast coast of South America, at 7:17 p.m. (2217 GMT). Twenty-six minutes after launch, the rocket released into a preliminary orbit Star One C2, a telecommunications
How many man-made satellites are orbiting Earth?
"NASA's Liftoff to Space Exploration site and an additional Satellites page that confirms the existence of over 8,000 artificial orbiting objects."
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In Rottnest I brought up the subject of the Moon to HHRay. I was taught that the Moon was actually just a name for a natural satellite - Earth’s natural satellite, to be specific, and the “Moons” circling other planets could not be called Moons because they, too, were satellites, and had their own names. HHRay laughed at me.
But now, I have looked into the topic further and guess what - it’s true, but only to an extent. While the proper name for the darn rocks which orbit planets is ‘natural satellite’, they are still frequently called moons (with a lowercase ‘m’). In fact, apparently, the Moon (as in Earth’s natural satellite) does not have any other proper English name other than the Moon. With a ‘the’ and a capital ‘M’.
In my opinion, this is stupid. Why call other satellites moons when they obviously have their own names and their own scientific term - natural satellite. It’s hogging our Moon’
Autumn are out with the video to their new single 'Satellites', from the Dutch symphonic metal band's third studio album 'My New Time', out now on Metal Blade Records. Watch it below the fold.
Satellites spot birthing of Antarctica icebergA newborn iceberg has broken away from the Pine Island Glacier In West Antarctica and drifted out to sea, according to satellite images taken during the last year.
Winners to Play in High-Stakes Niagara Falls TournamentPlayersOnly.com is sending tournament winners to Niagara Falls for the WPT North American Poker Championship where they’ll play for hundreds of thousands of dollars in prize money.The last in a month-long series of Super Satellites is being held on Sunday at 5:00 ET at PlayersOnly.com. Buy-in for this final WPTNA qualifier is $200 + $12 fee. Players can qualify for the Sunday event through Sit & Go and multi-table cash satellites held throughout the week.“There were quite a lot of players -- some pretty stiff competition, especially when it got down to the last eight of us,” said last Sunday’s satellite winner. “I held my own though. Hopefully I’ll do OK in Niagara Falls!”Last night was the final heat in the Gold Card Poker Tour Leaderboard contest, a special competition for participants in PlayersOnly’s Gold Card rewards program. Last night’s top 100 will join the top 100 from previous heats for the Gold Card
As reported on the Google Earth Blog, Digital Globe is launching a new satellite today, named WorldView I. A similar satellite, WorldView II, will be launching late next year.
Digital Globe is a leading provider of imagery for Google Earth/Maps, so this is a great thing for those products.
It will be a while before we see any new imagery from this satellite (testing, etc), but once it’s live DG says it will be able to acquire data at about seven times the normal rate. This will hopefully mean much more frequent updates in the future.
Read the article on GEB for the rest of the details.
Any body remember that Will Smith movie Enemy of the State?
A program approved by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security will allow broader domestic use of secret overhead imagery beginning as early as this fall, with the expectation that state and local law enforcement officials will eventually be able to tap into technology once largely restricted to foreign surveillance.
“You also can get more coverage more often,” Richelson said. “These satellites will cover during the course of their orbits the entire United States. They will be operating 24 hours a day and using infrared cameras at night.”
Does this bother anyone else? The government has invested billions of dollars into satellites that will allow them to spy on other countries but now they are being turned back on us. They are using the usual explanation of preventing terrorism but they have added a new one: illegal immigration. Illegal immigration, re
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A SATELLITE monitoring system to combat illegal logging and the destruction of native forests in Indonesia and the Pacific will be in place by next year with the Howard Government pressing ahead to install some of the critical equipment in the north of Australia.The satellite program, which the government hopes can eventually be used as a global model to measure deforestation, will be discussed at a high level meeting in Sydney today that brings together officials from the US, China, Brazil, Indonesian, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
Gpredict is a real-time satellite tracking and orbit prediction application. It can track an unlimited number of satellites and display their position and other data in lists, tables, maps, and polar plots (radar view). Gpredict can also predict the time of future passes for a satellite, and provide you with detailed information about each pass.Gpredict is different from other satellite tracking programs in that it allows you to group the satellites into visualisation modules. Each of these modules can be configured independently from the others giving you unlimited flexibility concerning the look and feel of the modules. Naturally, Gpredict will also allow you to track satellites relatively to different observer locations - at the same time.Tips - Configure your city as ground station.Instead of including many satellites in one module, create many modules with few satellites in it.Create modules for different categories (Military, Geo, etc. with five satellites in each).In Amateur ca
Over the next four years, satellites will become the most important source of high definition (HD) programming. IMS Research forecasts the global HDTV market to grow to nearly 150 million households by 2011. Nearly 40 percent of those households will receive HDTV programming via satellite.
According to a recently-published IMS Research report, “The Future of High-Definition [...]
If it seems Canadians weigh less than their American neighbours, they do – but not for the reasons you might think. A large swath of Canada actually boasts lower gravity than its surroundings.At first, researchers suspected it was due to an ice sheet called Laurentide that blanketed a sizeable chunk of North America during the last ice age. In places, the sheet was more than 3 kilometres thick, and it depressed the Earth's crust beneath it.When the ice age ended about 20,000 years ago, the ice rapidly melted. But the crust has been springing back much more slowly, and it is rebounding today by about 12 millimetres per year.But in the last decade or so, scientists have begun to suspect that convection in the Earth's mantle, a layer of hot, flowing rock beneath the crust, also plays a role.The sludge-like mantle rises and falls in plumes as it is heated from below and cooled from above. The mantle can drag the overlying tectonic plates with it as it moves.Source & Iamge:newscien
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Now dependent on the U.S. and Europe for the technology, the Indonesian telecommunications outfit will soon have another option.Indonesia's state-owned telecommunications company PT Telkom said it is expanding cooperation with China in the procurement and launching of telecommunications satellites. The cooperation with China was marked with the signing in Beijing last week of a memorandum of understanding between Telkom and China's Great Wall Industry on the design, manufacture, assembly and launch of satellites. Telkom president Arwin Rasyid after signing the contract said the country's largest telecommunication company planned to launch a new satellite in 2014 to replace its Telkom-1 satellite, which will end its life span that year.
Rivals XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio have announced there intentions of merging to create a giant satellite radio. Their combined market value is approximately $13 billion. It does not have FCC approval as of yet so it's not a sure thing. DirecTV and DISH Network attempted a satellite monopoly merger which was shot down. The reason for the merger is pretty simple: both companies are bleeding money. $1.5 billion combined in 2005, meanwhile the 2006 figures are expected to be similar."Wait, isn't The Jaunt about sports?"Ok, on the sports part.In an arms race to acquire exclusive content both companies scrambled (and spent big dollars) to lock the broadcasting rights for sports.First, Sirius locked up NFL rights for $200 million plus stock options.XM then follows with a $650 million payout to broadcast MLB games for 11 years and for the 'Official Satellite Radio provider of Major League Baseball' tag line.Sirius counters with NCAA March Madness, Sirius then stole NASCA
