DARPA wants to electronically RFID tag US combat soldiers so they can then be swiftly found and rescued if they get into trouble.
The “Individual Force Protection System“, is being pursued by contractor Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC).
According to this presentation (pdf), given last year by DARPA officials, IFPS would consist of a small, three-inch [...]
Nearly 4 billion years ago, much of the surface of Mars was like a soppy carpet. The planet was covered by a thick atmosphere, and it was warm but not exactly picturesque. Those conditions, an international team of three dozen scientists has concluded, could have supported primitive forms of life.
However, over time — some 800 [...]
DISH Network got lucky in the early hours of Wednesday after a successful launch of its EchoStar XI broadcast satellite from Boeing’s Sea Launch platform in the Pacific.
DISH, the second-largest U.S. satellite TV operator, needs to roll out more HD channels to be able to compete with larger rival DIRECTV, as well as cable and [...]
Aircell which delivers WiFi on airplanes, via its Gogo service, today announced its intention to base its airplane-to-ground link on Long Term Evolution (LTE).
Aircell uses an exclusive FCC frequency license to provide a cellular data channel to airplanes. It currently uses CDMA EVDO Rev A to deliver an effective data rate of more than [...]
There’s a wildfire, Dr. Stone — Andromeda Strain
A remotely piloted aircraft carrying a NASA sensor flew over much of California earlier this week , gathering information that will be used to help fight more than 300 wildfires burning within the state.
NASA’s unmanned Ikhana aircraft, derived from a General Atomics Predator uses a sophisticated Autonomous [...]
TV Technology reports that the FCC has “tentatively concluded” that mobile satellite service (MSS) operators can begin offering their services to the nation’s 30 largest markets before all current tv broadcasters stop using their antiquated 2 GHz microwave links — even if there is a danger of interference.
The FCC proposed that this new rule [...]
American Airlines and technology provider Aircell staged a dress rehearsal of their WiFi service in planes on a round-trip flight between New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and Los Angeles International Airport today. BoingBoing and WiFiNetNews helped promote it.
Broader customer trials on flights between New York and San Francisco and between New York and [...]
Northern Sky Research, a satellite analyst firm, expects satellite broadband users in North America will break the one million mark in late 2008 or early 2009. About 1.25 million Americans will use satellite broadband in their homes and small businesses by 2011, up from 600,000 last year, according to Pike & Fischer while global [...]
Globalstar today announced that it has expanded its satellite Simplex data coverage to include all of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, along with the surrounding maritime regions including the Gulf of Alaska and portions of both the north Pacific and south Arctic Oceans.
Customers in these regions can now access satellite-based asset and personal tracking, [...]
All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. - 2010
The Phoenix Mars Lander team hopes to start excavating the red planet soon. On Sunday, it scooped up and then dumped a handful of soil in a region dubbed the “Knave of Hearts”. The scoop contained white specks that could be ice or [...]
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