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TacSat-4 Spacecraft Complete and Awaiting Launch
December 1, 2009 — Naval Research Laboratory engineers have completed all environmental and performance testing on the TacSat-4 COMMx payload. This completes the entire TacSat-4 spacecraft as the spacecraft bus was ... > full story -
Butterfly Payload to Launch Nov. 16 on Space Shuttle
November 10, 2009 — When NASA's space shuttle Atlantis launches for the International Space Station on Nov. 16 it will carry a butterfly experiment that will be monitored by thousands of K-12 students across the ... > full story -
Satellite Data Instrumental In Combating Desertification
October 7, 2009 — With land degradation in dryland regions continuing to worsen, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification has agreed on scientist-recommended indicators for monitoring and assessing desertification ... > full story -
First Measure Of Africa's Coastal Forests: Swampy Mangrove Destruction Threatens Shrimp Farming
August 20, 2009 — Impoverished fishermen along the coast of tropical African countries like Mozambique and Madagascar may have only a few more years to eke out a profit from one of their nations' biggest agricultural ... > full story -
Satellites Unlock Secret To Northern India's Vanishing Water
August 12, 2009 — Using satellite data, hydrologists have found that groundwater beneath northern India has been receding by as much as 1 foot per year over the past decade -- and they believe human consumption is ... > full story -
On The 40th Anniversary Of The First Manned Moon Landing Today's Scientists Point To New Frontiers
July 15, 2009 — Forty years ago, on July 20, 1969, the United States achieved an historic first when Apollo 11 Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to land on the moon. Armstrong's now ... > full story -
Students Create Portable Device To Detect Suicide Bombers
June 30, 2009 — Improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the weapons of suicide bombers, are a major cause of soldier casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. A group of engineering undergraduate students has developed a new ... > full story -
Cognitive Radio Helps Guarantee Reachability Of Emergency Services
March 2, 2009 — A new approach to wireless communication will be able to guarantee the reachability of emergency services in a better way. 'Cognitive radio' borrows free space in other frequency bands and will also ... > full story -
Satellites Help Locate Water In Niger
January 19, 2009 — Like most sub-Saharan African countries, Niger faces problems meeting its water needs. As part of ESA’s TIGER initiative, satellite data are being used to identify underground water resources ... > full story -
Collaboration Of Soloists Makes The Best Science
December 4, 2008 — For the success of a major research university, which is better: large, well-funded laboratory empires with many investigators working toward the same end, or the individual scientist toiling alone ... > full story
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