U.S. Military Communications Should Not Be Running over Chinese Satellites
By Dean Cheng | The Foundry News has leaked that U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) uses China’s APSTAR-7 satellite for transmitting some of its communications, which means some American military communications are passing through Chinese satellites. There are probably two reasons for this. In the first place, the U.S. military is a massive bandwidth user. The various teleconferences, [...]
Read More →Russian Satellite Hit By Chinese Debris Highlights Space Junk Threat
By Mike Wall | Space.com The apparent destruction of a small Russian satellite six weeks ago highlights the growing threat space junk poses to activities in low-Earth orbit, experts say. The satellite and space junk crash involved Russia’s Ball Lens In The Space nanosatellite, or BLITS, which likely collided with a piece of orbital debris spawned by [...]
Read More →Nasa lets you build your own satellite with PhoneSat
By Klint Finley | Wired What would you do with your own private satellite? If you haven’t decided, you should. PhoneSat – a project overseen by Nasa’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley — wants to lower the cost of building space satellites to the point where anyone with space ambitions could launch one. Yes, it’s a satellite made [...]
Read More →Satellite Wars: China unveils ‘cheaper’ answer to GPS
RT China’s rapidly-expanding rival to GPS, called BeiDou, has become available to customers across Asia-Pacific for the first time. It aims to claim a fifth of the satellite services market in the region in just three years. Previously, the satellite constellation was only used by the country’s military and government services. Now, it is being [...]
Read More →Iran to unveil satellite in February
By Luan | Xinhua Iran Space Agency (ISA) has announced that it will unveil a new home-made satellite in February, Tehran Times daily reported on Sunday. Director of ISA, Hamid Fazeli, said Saturday that a new domestically-manufactured satellite, named the Nahid, will be unveiled on Feb. 2, 2013, which is Iran’s National Space Technology Day, according [...]
Read More →North Korea extends satellite launch period to Dec. 29
Xinhua | ANI The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) said Monday that the scheduled launch period for a scientific satellite has been extended to Dec. 29, one week behind the original Dec. 10-22 window. The delay was due to “technical deficiency” in a rocket engine module, the official KCNA news agency quoted a spokesman [...]
Read More →Satellite images suggest North Korea developing long-range missiles
ANI North Korea is reportedly pressing ahead with the development of long-range missiles, according to an analysis of satellite images by a US academic website. Drawing on commercial satellite imagery, the website 38 North suggested that the reclusive North Korean regime has carried out at least two tests of large rocket motors at the Sohae [...]
Read More →Satellite imagery identifies ‘inflation’ of volcanoes prior to eruption
By Olivia Solon | Wired Geophysicists have found evidence in satellite imagery to suggest that several volcanoes “inflated” with the rise of magma prior to eruptions. Estelle Chaussard and Falk Amelung from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science analysed data from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) to investigate the deformation of [...]
Read More →Azerbaijan creates a satellite system of earthquake prediction
ABC.az The Institute of Cybernetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan intends to create a system of forecasting the earthquake sources. Institute’s head Telman Aliyev says that in the last two years it has been established 5 seismic telemetry stations for forecasting earthquakes. “Today, through the stations operating in Gum Adasi, Siyazan, Neftchala, Shirvan [...]
Read More →Tiny ‘Firefly’ Satellite Will Study Lightning and Thunderstorms
National Science Foundation The Epoch Times Imagine a fully-instrumented satellite the size of a half-gallon milk carton. Then imagine that milk carton whirling in space, catching never-before-seen glimpses of processes thought to be linked to lightning. The little satellite that could is a CubeSat called Firefly, and it’s on a countdown to launch next year. [...]
Read More →Azerbaijan initiated creation of earthquake forecasting satellite system
ABCaz Azerbaijan has initiated the project on creation of satellite system for earthquake forecasting. Director of Cybernetics Institute of National Science Academy of Azerbaijan Telman Aliyev has reported that by 15 September 2012 seismology experts from all the world will assemble in Azerbaijan to participate in the conference on discussion of earthquake forecasting possibility through [...]
Read More →S. Korea set to launch multipurpose satellite
ANI South Korea is set to launch a multipurpose satellite to carry out earth observation from a space center in Japan early Friday, the government said Thursday. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said in a statement that the Arirang-3 satellite is scheduled to take off at around 1:39 a.m. Friday from Tanegashima Space [...]
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