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 [...]
ClearMesh Networks, an optical last mile start-up based in Pasadena, California, says it has the only commercially available wireless solution capable of targeting the high capacity, high-density metropolitan businesses. Its ClearMesh Metro Grid, announced today, is said to enable service providers to roll out business-class services at 5-100 Mbps to small and medium business markets.
Metro [...]
The firing power inside my crater is enough to annihilate a small army. You can watch it all on TV. It’s the last program you’re likely to see. - You Only Live Twice
According to the New York Times, the Bush administration is seeking to develop a powerful ground-based laser weapon that [...]
Following the success of the 2005 Space Elevator competition held at NASA’s Ames Research Center last October, the Spaceward Foundation has announced details for the 2006 event, to be held on August 4th in Mountain View, California, home of Google.
The 2006 Space Elevator challenge is attracting attention from many universities including MIT, MTU, [...]
C/Net reports that Microsoft plans to buy Vexcel, a maker of remote sensing software and instruments, to help expand the software maker’s digital mapping efforts.
Microsoft said the pending deal will help it with its efforts “to deliver a dynamic immersive digital representation of the real world that provides the best local search and mapping [...]
True Crime: New York City was released last month by Activision and is set in Manhattan. While it is not the first game to take place in a real-world location (or even in New York), True Crime: New York City’s attempt to accurately re-create an existing place is unprecedented in scope and ambition says The [...]
There he goes. One of God’s own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Defense Tech says The Grand Challenge is on, tomorrow, in the Mojave Desert.
The [...]
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