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SPACE: India's moonshotA note from a journalist friend:Live videocast of the launch of Chandrayaan I, the Indian moon spacecraft can be seen starting 8:20 p.m. EDT Tuesday/5:50 a.m. IST Wednesday at:http://www.isro.org/brodcast.htm More info about the project at:http://www.isro.org/chandrayaan/htmls/home.htm... |
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Congress cancels spy satellite programWith a federal budget crunch looming, Congress this month canceled Pentagon plans to buy and launch two commercial imagery satellites ... ... |
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DARPA Contract Hints At Real-Time Video SpyingThe Washington Post has a story picking apart a DARPA contract document to assert that advanced video spying from the sky is on the way. The contract in question was awarded last month and involves indexing video feeds and matching feeds against stored footage. The example given is for an analyst... |
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Vladimir Putin’s dog gets a satellite collar; now ruled over by a rolled up iron newspaperThe days of running free are over for Koni. The most powerful dog in Russia, perhaps the world has she could kick Barney’s presidential tail any day, now has her own 6 ounce GPS-like collar. Russia’s GLONASS satellites will provide the Prime Minister with 24/7 info about hi... |
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Could Solar Power Satellites Beam Down Gigawatts of Energy?How pie-in-the-sky is Ben Bova's space satellite scheme? Mr. Bova, the president emeritus of the National Space Society and a prolific science fiction author, calling on the next president to build an armada of solar power satellites (SPS) -- basically large accumulations of solar cells -- to hel... |
