July 17th, 2010
The story of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has demonstrated how the lobbying ability of the energy giants may endanger the environment. The Russian organization Transparent [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: earth observation system, Environment, gas, gis, oil, Russian Federation, WWF
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July 11th, 2010
For those interested in a didactic treatise on space flight, the right site is Basics of Space Flight. The site is by JPL and constitutes a valuable teaching instrument, [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: educational websites, jpl, nasa
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July 2nd, 2010
In a very smart lecture former NASA administrator Daniel Goldin shares with the audience important aspects of his experience.
Goldin speaks about problem solving when dealing with revolutionary [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Daniel Goldin
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June 25th, 2010
India is one of the most active Countries in satellite remote sensing. Currently operational satellites are: IRS-1C, IRS-ID, IRS-P3, OCEANSAT-1, Technology Experimental Satellite (TES), RESOURCESAT-1, CARTOSAT-1 and 2, RISAT [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: India, isro, remote sensing applications
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June 18th, 2010
If you are interested in a complete data set of observations of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the Coastal Response Research Center is the right place.
The Center was [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: COSMO-SkyMed, envisat asar, gulf of mexico oil spill, national oceanic atmospheric administration noaa, radarsat, TerraSAR-X, university of new hampshire
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June 17th, 2010
A new space policy was recently formulated by President Obama. The presidential proposal is now before the Congress, in a hot debate. As in many similar situations, passions and [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: bolden, Constellation, exploration program, Mars, nasa, Obama, space policy, USA, VASIMR
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June 11th, 2010
With this post I will start a weekly review concerning links of relevant interest in the aerospace field. Feel free to suggest other websites to review.
The Massachusetts Institute of [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: courseware, MIT
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May 28th, 2010
Soft power is the ability to obtain what one wants through co-option and attraction. It is in contradistinction to ‘hard power’, which is the use of coercion and payment. [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: charm offensive, Hillary Clinton, India, Obama, People's Republic of China, Politics, smart power
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May 20th, 2010
With the aim of providing satellite communications services to his oil/gas activities, the Russian energy giant Gazprom established in 1992 the subsidiary Gascom. Initially the goal was to provide [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: Constellation, earth observation system, elliptic orbits, energy giant, ka band, oil gas industry, pipelines, ria novosti, Russian Federation, space agencies
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May 14th, 2010
too many sats cats
Currently the scenario is as follows.
USA: 31 NAVSAT GPS satellites are operational – to be modernized;
Russia: 21 GLONASS satellites are operational (+ 2 spares) – to be [...] Continue Reading…
Tags: CDGPS, COMPASS, EGNOS, GALILEO, GLONASS, GPS, IRNSS, MSAS, OmniSTAR, QZSS, StarFire., WAAS
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