Ground broken for Space Fence installation
Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands (UPI) Mar 24, 2015 -
Construction of facilities for the new Space Fence radar system has been started in the Marshall Islands by the U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin.
Space Fence is an S-band ground-based radar system. It will replace the 1960s Air Force Space Surveillance System to track objects in orbit around the Earth and increase the ability to predict and prevent space-based collisions.
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50 years ago today, space welcomed its first sandwich
Washington (UPI) Mar 24, 2015 -
Fifty years ago, on March 23, 1965, space welcomed a sandwich - a corned beef sandwich, snuck aboard the Gemini 3 probe.
The sandwich was smuggled into space by NASA pilot John Young. Commander pilot Gus Grissom accompanied Young on the mission - the first manned Gemini mission and second manned U.S. space mission ever.
As Space.com reports, when Young pulled the sandwich from ...
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India's frugal Mars mission extended by six months
Bangalore, India (AFP) March 24, 2015 -
India's famously frugal Mars mission has been extended by around six months thanks to a surplus of fuel on board the spacecraft, the country's space agency said Tuesday.
The Mars Orbiter Mission spacecraft had been scheduled to wrap up its mission this month after India in September became the first Asian nation to reach the Red Planet, all on a shoe-string budget.
But scientists said th ...
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Mars has nitrogen, key to life: NASA
Washington (AFP) March 24, 2015 -
NASA's Curiosity rover has found nitrogen on the surface of Mars, a significant discovery that adds to evidence the Red Planet could once have sustained life, the space agency said Tuesday.
By drilling into Martian rocks, Curiosity found evidence of nitrates, compounds containing nitrogen that can be used by living organisms.
The Curiosity team has already found evidence that other ingre ...
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Intelsat EpicNG Completes Major Milestone on the Road to 2016 Launch
Luxembourg (SPX) Mar 22, 2015 -
Intelsat has announced the completion of a series of tests demonstrating the compatibility of the Intelsat EpicNG digital payload with existing ground equipment platforms. The digital payload is one of many unique design features on the company's Intelsat EpicNG satellites, the first of which, Intelsat 29e, is scheduled to launch in the first quarter of 2016.
As part of the tests, Intelsat ...
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An Ocean Of Bandwidth: KVH Connects More Ships At Sea With SES
Luxembourg (SPX) Mar 22, 2015 -
SES and KVH Industries have signed a new satellite capacity agreement to connect more ships traversing prime sea routes along the eastern coasts of Canada and the U.S. and throughout the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico.
Under the multi-year agreement, KVH will use 36 MHz of Ku-band capacity aboard the SES-4 satellite to expand high-speed Internet access and Voice over IP services across i ...
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Beijing behind Internet security violation: group
Beijing (AFP) March 25, 2015 -
China's cyberspace administration is "complicit" in attacks on major Internet companies including Google, an anti-censorship group said Wednesday, calling on firms worldwide to step up their defences.
GreatFire.org, which operates websites seeking to circumvent China's vast censorship apparatus, pointed to statements by Google, Microsoft and Mozilla as showing the Chinese government was invo ...
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