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Spot unveils Global Phone satellite handset for near-global coverage

, May 20th 2013 Discuss [0]

Spot has introduced a satellite-powered global cell phone called - quite aptly - the Spot Global Phone. The handset offers connectivity almost anywhere in the world, making it ideal for trekkers, frequent travelers, sailors, or anyone else who ventures off into places unknown - or unserviced by your regular cell phone provider. As you might suspect, the candy-bar style phone comes with a hefty price tag, in this case a dollar shy of $500, with the monthly plans starting at $25 for 10 minutes of talk time. Read The Full Story

BMW and Adaia team up for rugged, satellite-connected Android phone

, May 15th 2013 Discuss [0]

After being fed up with constantly breaking their smartphones due to a lack of ruggedness, a small group of people, including a couple folks from Nokia, started up Adaia to develop a rugged smartphone with satellite capabilities called the Blackcomb. It's a collaboration between Adaia and BMW, where the German auto company is handling the design of the phone. Read The Full Story

Google Timelapse shows a changing Earth in animated form

, May 9th 2013 Discuss [0]

Google has launched a new project called Timelapse that allows users to see the history of the Earth all the way back to 1984 and view how our planet has changed over the past 28 years. You can view any part of the world, just like in Google Earth, except that Timelapse automatically creates an animated timelapse GIF based on what you're looking at. Read The Full Story

FCC considers using satellite airwaves to provide Internet on commercial aircraft

, May 9th 2013 Discuss [0]

Most major airlines around the world have been offering Internet service on flights for a number of years. Selling Internet access to passengers on aircraft has proven to be a nice additional stream of revenue for cash strapped airlines. Typically, providing Internet service on aircraft requires an antenna on the ground. Read The Full Story

Young students aim to be among first to launch small satellite

, Apr 22nd 2013 Discuss [0]

Students at St. Thomas More Cathedral School in Arlington, VA are aiming to be a part of a milestone. The school is looking to become the first K-8 school to launch a "CubeSat" satellite into space. The proposed satellite that the students will build would be four inches long in all directions and would weigh around three pounds. Read The Full Story

Chinese space junk collides with Russian satellite

, Mar 11th 2013 Discuss [0]

While outer space is vast with distances that are hard for the human mind to comprehend, the space around our planet is becoming quite crowded. There are approximately 900 satellites in orbit around the Earth today and untold amounts of orbiting space junk and debris. The space junk and debris includes things such as defunct satellites, small parts from spacecraft, and satellites that have been purposely destroyed or exploded accidentally. Read The Full Story

Canada launches NEOSSat to keep an eye out for asteroids

, Feb 26th 2013 Discuss [0]

More than a few asteroids have neared our planet this year, with some getting pretty close, relatively speaking. This has prompted a variety of theories on how to deal with them, such as laser beams that will evaporate threatening space rock. Less an asteroid sneak up on us, Canada has launched the Near-Earth Object Surveillance Satellite, called NEOSSat for short, which is equipped with a camera to help us keep an eye out for asteroids. Read The Full Story

Dish Network’s chairman says he doesn’t want to kill advertisements, talks about AutoHop

, Feb 12th 2013 Discuss [0]

Dish Network has been a source of controversy for many months now thanks to its AutoHop commercial-skipping feature, which allows users to automatically skip commercials in DVR recordings. Broadcast networks have stated that such a feature is detrimental to the industry as a whole, which earns quite a bit of revenue through the advertisements. Dish's chairman Charlie Ergen has responded to this criticism in an interview with AllThingsD, stating that he doesn't want to kill commercials. Read The Full Story

NASA launches Landsat 8 into orbit

, Feb 11th 2013 Discuss [0]

Today, NASA launched the eighth Landsat satellite into space, continuing the tradition of tracking various environmental changes and resource usage around Earth. The Landsat program has been around since 1972, and has been providing quality data of our planet for over four decades now. The satellite officially launched at 1:02 pm ET from from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Read The Full Story

DARPA to breathe new life into dead satellites

, Jan 23rd 2013 Discuss [0]

There are a ton of dead satellites currently still orbiting the Earth, but certain parts on these satellites often still work, such as antennas and solar panels. However, there's no method to salvage and reuse these satellite parts once they're launched into space, but DARPA is looking into it, and has launched a new program specifically for recycling old satellite parts. Read The Full Story

Landsat 5, a satellite that has been observing Earth since 1984, to be shutdown

, Dec 26th 2012 Discuss [0]

The United States Geological Survey is poised to shut down the Landsat 5, an observational satellite that has been circling our fair planet since 1984. The announcement comes about 25 years after when the satellite was originally slated for deactivation. During its life span, Landsat 5 has taken over 2.5 million snapshots. Read The Full Story

NASA shows off stunning images of the earth at night

, Dec 5th 2012 Discuss [0]

Thanks to the NASA-NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite, NASA and the NOAA have released a series of high-quality composite images of the Earth at night time. These images are very high-quality, capturing all sorts of lights, including wildfires and even lights on boats. They've been compiled into a video as well, allowing you to view a 360-spinning model of the Earth at night, which you can view on the NASA website. Read The Full Story
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