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Japan eyes building its own GPS systemTokyo (AFP) Jan 5, 2011 Japan is considering launching new satellites to establish its own global positioning system (GPS) in a bid to reduce its reliance on the US navigation network, officials said on Wednesday. In September, Japan launched a rocket carrying its first satellite intended to improve GPS systems widely used by Japanese motorists for navigation as well as by aviation and maritime operators. The government's space development strategy headquarters, headed by Prime Minister Naoto Kan, is now discussing pla ... read more |
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  US to deploy new intelligence drone in Afghanistan: report The US military plans to to deploy a new intelligence drone in Afghanistan, which military experts say will allow US troops to monitor much larger operational theaters than before, The Washington Post reported Sunday. ... more | .. |
  Trillion-dollar forecast for gadget sales As the top US consumer electronics trade show prepares to open this week, organizers are forecasting that global gadget sales may top one trillion dollars this year for the first time ever. ... more | .. |
  ISRO To Launch Singapore's First Satellite In Orbit In February The launch of the satellite, dubbed X-Sat, has been delayed since 2007. Experts estimated that the delay has raised the cost of satellite four-fold to more than 40 million Singaporean dollar from ea ... more | .. |
  Smithsonian Instrument Fills The Gap During a total eclipse of the Sun, skywatchers are awed by the shimmering corona - a faint glow that surrounds the Sun like gossamer flower petals. This outer layer of the Sun's atmosphere is, ... more |
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  Another Space Shot From UA Astronomer On the first day of the new year, NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day published University of Arizona astronomer and astrophotographer Adam Block's 50th image on that site. Block's photo of th ... more | .. |
  Russia To Develop New Heavy ICBM By 2020 Russia's state arms procurement program through 2020 provides for the development of a new heavy ballistic missile, a leading missile designer said on Monday. The final decision should be made ... more | .. |
  Nigeria Microsat Passes Pre-Launch Test The replaced Nigerian satellite, NIGCOMSAT-1R, has undergone and passed a major performance test and activities are in top gear for its launch in 2011, an official has said. Timasaniyu Ahmed-R ... more | .. |
  Rover Will Spend Seventh Birthday At Stadium-Size Crater The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a Dec. 31, 2010, view of the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on the southwestern rim ... more |
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 NASA Checking On Rover Spirit During Martian Spring Nine months after last hearing from the Mars rover Spirit, NASA is stepping up efforts to regain communications with the rover before spring ends on southern Mars in mid-March. Spirit landed o ... more | .. |
  Dynetics Awarded Contract To Provide Candidate Flight Hardware Dynetics, corporate team leader for the Rocket City Space Pioneers (RCSP), the Huntsville-based Google Lunar X PRIZE team, is one of only three organizations selected to supply flight component test ... more | .. |
  China Pours Billions Into Satellite Services For Rural Radio And TV China' s central and local governments poured some 16 billion yuan (2.4 billion U.S. dollars), from 2006 to 2010, into building basic radio and TV networks that now cover "every village." "In ... more | .. |
 2011: The Arianespace Family Takes Shape After reaffirming its world leadership in 2010, Arianespace is now actively preparing for the maiden launches of Soyuz and Vega from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana. Since being found ... more |
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 Turkey To Launch First Home-Made Communications Test Satellite Turkey plans to send its first home-made communications test satellite into orbit in September next year, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported Tuesday. The satellite, 3USAT, will pr ... more | .. |
 Auroral Rocket In Norway The aurora borealis and aurora australis - the northern and southern lights - are visible manifestations of a connection between the Sun and Earth. Blasts of energy and magnetically charged particle ... more | .. |
  Russia To Launch 50 ComSats Over Next Five Years Russia plans to launch five Glonass communication satellites in 2011 and 48 more later to create a Cosmonaut information highway, local media reported Wednesday. There are 20 of 26 Glonass sat ... more | .. |
 Magellan Introduces New Member To eXplorist Family Magellan has announced the introduction of the Magellan eXplorist 310 GPS receiver, a power-packed, waterproof, and rugged handheld GPS designed for essential outdoor navigation. The newest ad ... more |
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 Software Will Take Half Of The Total Nav Market By 2016 Industry experts have long ago decided which side of the "software is killing the dedicated in-car navigation device" debate they are on. However, in a market with traditionally long product life-cy ... more | .. |
 Networks Of Up To 2 Million Cells Now Supported By GeoLENs Location Platform Touting one of the wireless industry's most comprehensive location platforms, Andrew Solutions, the CommScope, Inc. division that is a global leader in wireless communication systems and products, h ... more | .. |
 Garmin Has A GPS Device For Everyone Garmin International has announced that its 2011 Consumer Electronics Show product line-up is one of its most diverse ever and is designed to emphasize the different ways GPS can be used across all ... more | .. |
  New Shuttle Repairs And Additional Imaging Begin Space shuttle Discovery remains inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where technicians are starting repairs on three support beams, called stringers, on th ... more |
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  Auction May Hold Piece Of Final Frontier For Space Buffs Many dream of traveling to the Moon, Mars or even other galaxies. For some, these dreams date back to the US-Soviet space race; other dreams of cosmic travel are more recent, as the commercial secto ... more | .. |
 China to explore Mars with Russia this year China's first Mars probe is expected to be launched in October this year in a joint operation with Russia after a two-year delay, state media reported Sunday. ... more | .. |
Nigeria's Satellite Passes Pre-Launch Test The replaced Nigerian satellite, NIGCOMSAT-1R, has undergone and passed a major performance test and activities are in top gear for its launch in 2011, an official has said. Timasaniyu Ahmed-R ... more | .. |
  Canada says it could build launch rockets Canada, which now relies on other countries to launch its satellites into orbit, has the technological ability to build its own rockets, space experts say. ... more |
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