NASA has very recently released four films taken by a device aboard the spacecraft Aqua. The films show a satellite view of the United States from dates July 16-24. In that time period, North America, particularly the northeast and northern Midwest, was one of the hottest places on the planet.
Vermont’s Solar Farm boasts being the largest of its kind in North America, and is hoping to make a positive impact on state and national levels.
Globalstar is proud to announce the launch of the second generation satellite network for its SPOT GPS System.
One of the benefits to being one of the herd of mice marching along to the pied piper of GPS-enabled technology, is that you're always on somebody's grid should something bad happen. Though some may long to escape technology's grasp, the only real solution to that quandary is to toss your phone or hide in [...]
Due to poachers and hunters who use giraffe’s skin to produce cloth, the giraffe population in Western Africa has unfortunately become extremely scarce. They are slowly making their way up the endangered species list, and scientists have had to act quickly. In order to gather more information about these long-necked, majestic creatures of Africa, [...]
Engineers from Japan have invented a prototype device that places GPS navigation technology into a pair of glasses, which they call a “Wearable Personal Navigation System”. Created at the University of Electro-Communications’ Nakajima Laboratory and displayed in Tokyo at the Wireless Japan 2010 expo, these devices feature a battery powered microcomputer, as well as a [...]
Solar storms are extremely powerful natural disasters, and they are able to cause a tremendous amount of economic damage. During a typical solar storm, the sun’s surface flares up and massive fireballs are shot into the Earth’s atmosphere. This often results in the harming of many of the electrical waves back down on earth; [...]
This Sunday morning at 5:30 AM, the Chinese government launched a rocket into space that was carrying a navigation satellite system. This satellite is the fifth of over 30 Beidou orbiters that Beijing hopes will soon rival America’s Global Positioning System (GPS). For many years, the U.S. Air Force has owned and operated the system [...]
Last week, the military went through a massive signal blackout, rendering all their GPS based equipment useless. The signal was only lost for about 10 minutes, but this begs the question: how vulnerable were we for those 10 minutes? The military is in possession of over 10,000 GPS receivers, which they use on almost all [...]
