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News The program is similar to Google Sky, a mode of Google Earth that offers views of the universe, including high-resolution photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope and background information on discoveries and constellations.
[14 May 2008]
Photo To celebrate Earth Day, Nasa has released its 10 favourite photos taken by astronauts on the International Space Station. In this 2003 photo from Expedition 7, you can see layers of the Earth's atmosphere.
[29 Apr 2008]
Photo This is what the Giove-B satellite will look like in orbit around the earth. Photo credit: European Space Agency (ESA) The second trial satellite (Giove-B) in the European Galileo satellite programme was launched in Kazakhstan at the weekend.
[29 Apr 2008]
Photo To celebrate Earth Day this week, Nasa released its 10 favourite photos taken by astronauts on the International Space Station. ¦ Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine ¦ Photos: The best of Google Sky ¦ Photos: The best of Google...
[24 Apr 2008]
whitepaper World Wind is open-source software, developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that allows the user to zoom from satellite altitude into any place on earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar...
[28 Mar 2008]
News But it is more usually used here on earth. He said: "The role of the space industry is very important in meeting our connectivity access targets [such as the 2015 Millennium Development Goals] and to contribute to the well-being of the world's...
[28 Feb 2008]
Photo Astronauts and robots exploring the moon's surface will only be a text message away after the full system - which will be similar to the Inmarsat, seen here in a mock-up, network on Earth - goes live later this century.
[25 Feb 2008]
Round-Up Phone calls and other information would be bounced off satellites orbiting the moon for communication between colonists, the moon base and the earth. But if your immediate response was actually, 'And about bloody time, too', then you'll be...
[22 Feb 2008]
News Director of space science at the BNSC, David Parker, said the early lunar system will be comparable to the "satellite phone network of the 1980s and 1990s on earth". During the MoonLite mission a lunar orbiter would use the technology to transmit...
[19 Feb 2008]
Photo It's covered in windows with 18-inch diameters so that Virgin Galactic travellers will be able to have a full view of space and the Earth below them as they experience zero gravity. The original SpaceShipOne, which flew to space three times in 2004...
[24 Jan 2008]
whitepaper NASA engineers have designed an interface system that connects the Space Shuttle and Space Station communication system to the Internet on Earth. Simulations of the behavior of the modified TCP protocol over the Space Station or Space Shuttle links...
[14 Jan 2008]
News The best of Google Earth From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. The spokesman said: "Our longer term plan is if lots of people do take a liking to Open Space and there's lots...
[14 Dec 2007]
Photo Photo credit: Google Earth, Nasa and Space Telescope Science Institute silicon.com talked to Graham Linehan, writer and director of tech-flavoured sitcom The IT Crowd this October, to ask him about his inspiration for the show's characters.
[13 Dec 2007]
whitepaper Satellite systems based on the use of geostationary (GEO) or Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations suffer from their intrinsic limitations in terms of coverage or flexibility. Traffic requirements concerning broadband services are expected to be...
[04 Dec 2007]
Photo The Google Sky application lets users navigate space in a similar way to Google Earth - with constellations drawn out and labelled to help cyber star gazers. Photo credit: Google Earth, Nasa and Space Telescope Science Institute
[28 Nov 2007]
News The best of Google Earth From Hollywood to Vegas and racetracks to controversial domes.click here to travel the world with Google Earth. In making the decision to push the $3.1bn deal into an extended investigation, the Commission cited concerns...
[14 Nov 2007]
News Speaking at a panel discussion in Westminster, professor Alan O'Neill, director of the National Centre for Earth Observation, said: "I think that the GMES could be a critical contribution to an earth information system.
[12 Nov 2007]
News Internet visionary Vint Cerf has predicted that in the coming decades, scientists will have developed an interplanetary web, or a common set of communications protocols that will allow sensors on spacecraft, satellites and planets to transmit...
[25 Oct 2007]
News Back on Earth, and blazing an entirely different trail, Lesley Cowley, CEO of web names company Nominet, has scooped the First Woman of Technology 2007 award, organised by the CBI. Nasa is blaming a power feed for "potentially catastrophic...
[15 Jun 2007]
News Google Earth has also used images from the European Space Agency's satellites to showcase stunning pictures of natural disasters. Google Earth maps of the seabed in UK waters have been released by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).
[29 May 2007]
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