News tagged with satellite communications equipment

Wireless startup LightSquared files for bankruptcy

LightSquared Inc., which hoped to create an independent wireless broadband network in the U.S., filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday.

Technology / Telecom

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 6

Iran to launch observation satellite on nuclear talks day

Iran will launch next week an experimental observation satellite, on the day of talks with world powers over its controversial nuclear programme, the official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Satellite equipment maker ViaSat buying WildBlue

(AP) -- ViaSat Inc. is acquiring WildBlue Communications Inc., a provider of high-speed Internet access via satellite, for $568 million in cash and stock, the companies said Thursday.

Technology / Business

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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European team bests Chinese record at teleporting distance (Corrected)

(Phys.org) -- A European team of physicists has bested the record set by a team of Chinese researchers last month for distance in teleporting quantum bits (qubits). Where the Chinese team accomplished their ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (15) | comments 27 | with audio podcast report

Artemis keeps talking the talk

(Phys.org) -- Although ESA’s Artemis telecommunications satellite has officially completed its mission, it still has plenty to offer. Reaching its working orbit almost 11 years ago after an arduous journey, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Frugal innovation

Co-author of recently published book 'Jugaad Innovation', Professor Jaideep Prabhu argues that a frugal and flexible approach to innovation can generate breakthrough growth not only in the developing world ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Space weather expert has ominous forecast

A stream of highly charged particles from the sun is headed straight toward Earth, threatening to plunge cities around the world into darkness and bring the global economy screeching to a halt.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 7

GPS on commercial ships could improve tsunami warnings

Commercial ships travel across most of the globe and could provide better warnings for potentially deadly tsunamis, according to a study published May 5 by scientists at the University of Hawaii – Manoa ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UK company to build Sun orbiter

The European Space Agency said on Friday it had awarded a 300-million-euro ($400 million) contract to a British technology firm to build a satellite to examine the Sun from closer up than any before it.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3

First-ever model simulation of the structuring of the observable universe

A team of researchers from the Laboratoire Univers et Theorie (France) coordinated by Jean-Michel Alimi has performed the first-ever computer model simulation of the structuring of the entire observable universe, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 44

Google opens Amazon wilds to armchair explorers

Google's free online map service on Wednesday began letting people explore portions of the Amazon Basin from the comfort of their homes.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

NASA GPM satellite's dual-frequency precipitation radar arrives at Goddard

The Dual-frequency Precipitation Radar built by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency for the Global Precipitation Measurement GPM mission's Core Observatory arrived on Friday, March 16 and was unloaded today at NASA's Goddard ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

'Gravity is climate' - 10 years of climate research satellites GRACE

For the first time, the melting of glaciers in Greenland could now be measured with high accuracy from space. Just in time for the tenth anniversary of the twin satellites GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 5


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