What do you get when you combine a high school library, an intercontinental ballistic missile, and a machine that makes sexy underwear? The answer is scheduled to blast off into space tonight.
– NPR, April 16, 2007
A Chinese navigation satellite was launched early Saturday, the second satellite in less than a week. The Beidou-2 satellite is [...]
Lockheed Martin announced that it has delivered the flight structure for the third space vehicle in the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) program for integration with its propulsion subsystem.
Each of the three Advanced EHF satellites (wikipedia) employs more than 50 communications channels via multiple, simultaneous downlinks. Launch of the first AEHF satellite is planned for [...]
In the first public comments (transcript) by a Bush Administration official since the release of the new national space policy two months ago, a State Department undersecretary said at the National Press Club that the policy is not evidence that the US wants to weaponize space, but that the nation will do whatever is required [...]
C/Net reports that several leading consumer electronics companies are working together to develop a new standard for transmitting high-definition audio and video signals wirelessly.
The WirelessHD interface would enable high-speed streaming of audio and video content at 60 GHz between televisions, DVD players, games and other portable devices. The group plans to release the specification [...]
The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) today announced the connection of the rapidly-growing Coachella Valley area to its California Research & Education Network (CalREN) with a grant from The H.N. & Frances C. Berger Foundation. The CalREN backbone consists of 2,500 miles of CENIC-owned and managed fiber, plus last-mile fiber.
“Connecting Coachella [...]
Mexico’s Teotihuacan, once the center of a sprawling pre-Hispanic empire, is set to become the launch pad for an attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial life, reports CNN. For 30 days, from October 10 until November 8, Yahoo! users worldwide can contribute photos, writings, videos, audio – even drawings – to the electronic anthropology [...]
Intel announced today a laser on an integrated chip made out of hybrid chip materials. It could enable high-speed communications at 1,000 times the speed of today’s computers and at much lower costs than is possible today, reports Mercury News.
The research is the result of a collaboration between [...]
GigaBeam and Tropos jointly announced today that GigaBeam has become a preferred solution partner of Tropos and that both have successfully installed portions of the municipal WiFi network in Mountain View, California, using GigaBeam’s 70-80 GHz WiFiber wireless backhaul on the system.
Ron Sege, President and CEO of Tropos Networks, said, “Being a wireless [...]
L-3 Communications has successfully completed preliminary flight tests of an airborne network in a hub-spoke network configuration, including fully automatic acquisition, tracking and control over both power and data rate.
L3 is the preeminent supplier of wideband data links and mobile surface and airborne satellite terminals for military applications.
The airborne hub transmitted real-time data to two [...]
Ball Aerospace says their CloudSat and CALIPSO satellites, launched on April 28 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, have now been commissioned.
The two satellites are designed to improve our understanding of Earth’s weather, climate, and air quality by revealing 3-D details of clouds and the hidden characteristics of aerosols.
Ball Aerospace built the spacecraft bus [...]
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