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THEMIS Satellites Discover Northern Lights Are Powered By Magnetic Fields Snapping Like Rubber Bands [Nasa]

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2008-07-24 17:49:11 by John Mahoney in Gizmodo
...satellites from the THEMIS mission were recently able to closely witness the chain of events that occurs to create the northern lights for the first time. Complex stuff going on here, but it involves the Earth's massive electromagnetic fields being stretched to their limits by magnetic bombardment from the sun, and then snapping back into...
 
Tags: satellites, themis satellites, northern lights, northern, capture, satellites capture data, themis, nasa, identical satellites line
 
 
 
 
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Working DIY micro-satellites let anyone spy from space

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2008-07-08 13:39:33 by Kevin Hall in DVICE
...satellites that are smaller, cheaper and easier to build, which it hopes will open up the orbital market to new interests. About the size of a refrigerator (and looking a bit like one ), the satellites cost around $10 million which you may consider a deal next to more sophisticated, $500 million satellites and weigh only 220 pounds and take...
 
Tags: satellites, surrey satellites, satellites cost, million satellites, million, surrey satellite technology, natural disasters, bit, orbital market
 
 
 
 
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Micro Satellites Geared Toward Private Sector Make Tin Foil Hats a Good Idea [Satellites]

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2008-07-08 18:40:00 by Adrian Covert in Gizmodo
...satellites for commercial consumption that only cost 10 million dollars, only weigh 220 pounds, and only take 18 months to build. But when compared to full-sized satellites ($500m, 1000 kg) used by government agencies and large corporations, these micro-satellites are amazingly compact and cost effective. Surrey will be sending 5 of these...
 
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Micro Satellites Geared Toward Private Sector Make Tinfoil Hats a Good Idea [Satellites]

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2008-07-08 18:40:00 by Adrian Covert in Gizmodo
...satellites for commercial consumption that only cost 10 million dollars, only weigh 220 pounds, and only take 18 months to build. But when compared to full-sized satellites ($500m, 1000 kg) used by government agencies and large corporations, these micro-satellites are amazingly compact and cost effective. Surrey will be sending 5 of these...
 
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Russia launches last three navigation satellites

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2007-12-26 16:30:51 by Doug Aamoth in CrunchGear
...satellites. GLONASS is similar to our GPS system here and will initially cover most of Russia and then, by 2009, the world There are 24 satellites in all, with the purpose of giving the Russian military "exact bearings around the world Russia began developing the system in the 70s but work was stalled in the late 90s due to the countrys...
 
Tags: russia, satellites, countrys economic hardships, system, late-night launch yesterday, gps system, glonass, exact bearings, world
 
 
 
 
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Indian rocket puts 10 Satellites into orbit

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2008-04-28 05:23:39 by HASH0x8c54e78 in Newlaunches.com
...satellites in its payload. The PSLV weighing in at 230 tonnes and almost 12 storeys tall carried a 690 kg CARTOSAT-2A, ISRO's Indian Mini Satellite-1 (IMS-1), weighing 83kg, and eight nano satellites built by universities and research institutes in Canada and Germany. This is for the first time in the world that as many as ten payloads would...
 
Tags: satellites, indian mini satellite-1, satellite, payloads, multispectral camera, ims-1 carries, ims-1, camera, optical payloads
 
 
 
 
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Bush signs another bill that lets Military Satellites on American Civilians!

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2008-10-06 22:18:40 by max in zedomax.com
...satellites on the US, sharing imagery with other federal, state, and local government agencies. The governments own watchdog agency, the Government Accountability Office, has warned in an unpublished report that the more expansive program in the offing lacks adequate safeguards to protect privacy and civil liberties via arstechnica Brought to...
 
Tags: bush, government, local government agencies, bush signs, government accountability office, president bush, bill, american civilians, military satellites
 
 
 
 
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Don't Blow Up Satellites, Catch Them in Gigantic Blankets [Brilliance]

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2008-02-21 13:32:07 by Adam Frucci in Gizmodo
...satellites and missiles? There sure is, according to a recent patent from SVC solutions. Rather than blow them up, we can just wrap them in a giant blanket and parachute them to Earth! Yes, it's so stupid it comes right back around to being brilliant, and I think the military should start producing these right away. Get on it, USA! [...
 
Tags: errant satellites, recent patent, svc solutions, giant blanket, missiles, usa, flightglobal, earth, stupid
 
 
 
 
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Photographer Puts 189 Non-Existent Spy Satellites on Show [Spy Sats]

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2008-06-23 12:40:00 by Kit Eaton in Gizmodo
...satellites: the ones that officially "don't exist." Dubbed The Other Night Sky the photos are time-lapse images of the snoop-sats moving through the night sky, made with a custom star-tracker. Apparently it's his attempt to draw similarities between government secrecy and Galileo's historic tangles with the Catholic church. Found with the...
 
Tags: night sky, berkeley art museum, photos, named spy, amateur astronomer, draw similarities, quietly beautifulif, photographer trevor, government secrecy