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UARS falls back to Earth; NASA still has no idea where it hit

, Sep 26th 2011 Discuss [14]

We talked about the decommissioned space satellite UARS last week and the fact that it was going to be plummeting back through the earth's atmosphere Friday or Saturday of last week. UARS has made its descent back through the atmosphere and most of it did in fact burn up in re-entry. However, the 26 satellite components that NASA thought might survive the atmosphere are still unaccounted for. Read The Full Story

Dish Network Tailgater lets you throw a tailgate party in style

, Aug 30th 2011 Discuss [10]

I am not the sort to throw a tailgate party. I prefer to watch sporting events from home because the seats that are always in the price range I am willing to spend at a live venue suck. If you like to have the real event ambiance, but don’t want to cough up the money for the tickets to a football game or a baseball game the Dish Network Tailgater will let you throw a party in style. Read The Full Story

Lockheed Martin HALE-D airship flies for first time

, Jul 29th 2011 Discuss [5]

Lockheed Martin has been working on a new generation of airships, which I have always called blimps. Decades ago, the airship was seen as the future of passenger flight across the country and between continents. The airship was quickly surpassed in capability by aircraft and thanks to notable disasters it was relegated to use for advertising and filming sporting events for the most part. Read The Full Story

SpaceX breaks ground on launch site for Falcon Heavy rocket

, Jul 15th 2011 Discuss [3]

This month marked the last flight of the Space Shuttle fleet and while NASA is on hiatus from putting things in space using the shuttle, the private space industry is moving on. SpaceX has announced that it broke ground yesterday on the launch site for its massive Falcon Heavy lift rocket. The massive rocket is the most powerful since the rockets used to heft astronauts into space in the Apollo days. Read The Full Story

Postage Stamp Size Satellites Launch with Space Shuttle Endeavour

, May 16th 2011 Discuss [2]

Space Shuttle Endeavour launched today, on its last mission and the second to last mission of the Space Shuttle program. On board this time were three postage-stamp sized mini satellites. These tiny satellites will be mounted on the outside of the International Space Station, and will perform the same mission that the Russian Sputnik spacecraft did in 1957. They will monitor space conditions and broadcast them back to Earth. Read The Full Story

Dish Network purchase of Blockbuster Video approved by bankruptcy court

, Apr 8th 2011 Discuss [0]

We mentioned earlier this week that satellite TV provider Dish Network had put in a bid to purchase Blockbuster and its assets. The plan still needed to win the approval of the bankruptcy court handling Blockbuster's assets. Reuters reports that the court has approved the $320 million bid by Dish Network for the purchase. Read The Full Story

Space Junk Could Collide with International Space Station *Updated*

, Apr 5th 2011 Discuss [0]

Space, or at least Earth's orbit, is becoming more and more congested, and now the International Space Station may be in danger from a rogue bit of space debris. The Pentagon estimates there are now more than 370,000 pieces of junk floating around in low-Earth orbit, from collisions, missile tests, and space missions, turning the area directly above Earth into "an orbiting rubbish dump". And now one piece of that rubbish may collide with the International Space Station, according to NASA. Read The Full Story

Montana Radio Shack offers free gun with Dish Network purchase

, Mar 28th 2011 Discuss [1]

If you live in a rural area where the local cable company has a junky cable line up odds are you have moved on to satellite service so you can get all the channels that your local company lacks. Even some folks that live in urban areas with lots of channels still opt for satellite service. Satellite is one of the most common alternatives to cable today. Read The Full Story

SIRF Walk Indoor GPS – Coming to a Smartphone Near You

, Feb 16th 2011 Discuss [0]

If you've ever gotten lost in a mall and had to spend time searching for one of those "directions" kiosks, then help is on the way. SIRF Walk, an indoor positioning system created by CSR, will be able to help you find your destination, even when you are inside and out of satellite view. The system will use a phone's accelerometer, gyroscope, and even a barometer. Read The Full Story

Lockheed Martin GPS satellite has been in orbit and working for over a decade

, Feb 16th 2011 Discuss [0]

GPS is one of the most important technologies we have today and is used by billions of people all around the world each day. Lockheed Martin is one of the companies that builds a number of the GPS satellites that are in orbit and the company has announced that one of the satellites has reached a milestone. Read The Full Story

KA-SAT satellite for wireless broadband launched

, Dec 27th 2010 Discuss [0]

Launching satellites is a very complex and risky business. The launch into orbit has all manner of steps and a catastrophic fault can happen at multiple points along the way. The loss of a very expensive satellite can be something that firms don’t recover from for a long time. A European company called Eutelsat has announced that yesterday its latest KA-SAT was put into orbit using a Proton Breeze M rocket. Read The Full Story

Russian launch fails to put three nav satellites in orbit

, Dec 6th 2010 Discuss [1]

Russia attempted to put three new Glonass-M navigation satellite into orbit over the weekend. The launch failed to loft the satellites into orbit and resulted in the loss of all three satellites. A launch failure was noted shortly after the 5:25 a.m. launch on December 5. Read The Full Story
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