Sentinel-3 ESA’s Next Generation Satellite Scheduled to Launch in

Sentinel-3 satellite which is scheduled to launch in 2013 is the third in a series of five space missions European Space Agency (ESA) is developing for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative. The missions main objective is to determine the...

Chandrayaan-1 gets back to work

" A day after landing India’s first probe instrument on the surface of the moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was on Saturday getting ready to activate eight other scientific instruments on board the country’s first unmanned lunar spacecraft,...

Google Earth to license new satellite imagery

"Google has agreed to license imagery for their mapping products from a satellite due to launch on September 4th. This new satellite can take detailed imagery for an area the size of Delaware in one day. What...

Study shows: Smokers try to quit, but can't

So I have a friend (he shall remain anonymous) who has a HUGE smoking problem. Everytime we hang out, he would either waste time to go buy some cigarettes, or take 5minutes off from whatever we were doing to...

Plane goes missing over Indonesia

UPDATE: 6:19PM EST - Friday June 27thThe plane may have been sighted, but it is still not known whether there are any survivors." Police and military teams scoured dense jungle today in search of an Indonesian air...

Royal Navy's sonar testing may have killed dolphins off Cornish coast

Investigators may have found the cause of the mysterious mass dolphin deaths in the UK. Some special testing by the Royal Navy may have killed them."The Royal Navy had been testing sonar equipment only miles from the bay where dozens of dolphins met an agonising death.Another...

Burma cyclone: Mapping the aftermath

A picture worth than thousand words. This map graphic story from BBC news site give us a clear picture about the cyclone-hit Burma. Have a look at this graphic story, how the cyclone has affected the lives of hundred of thousands people souls."The cyclone that hit Burma on 3...

Canada's Arctic Sovereignty: "Say It with TNT"

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorIn the 1950's Race for Space saw Russia and the Americans pulling out all the stops to claim Space as their own.  Canada is doing the same in claiming the Arctic's...

Google Earth Maps Refugee Crisis

Kudos to Google and the UNHCR for undertaking a project that makes such worthy and excellent use of Google's technologies, to educate and inform the public about global humanitarian crises."Internet search giant...

Nanaimo 'Capital of Google Earth,' says Time Magazine

The unlikely Google hotspot of Nanaimo, BC, a 78,000-person city about an hour north of Victoria, has made waves by pioneering new features of Google Earth, and Time Magazine recently took note.  Check out...

A Brilliant Idea Mashed Up

Christmas Lights on the Tacky Light Tour   For years Matt Burgess searched newspapers, magazines and his neighbors for a list of the best Christmas lights in Richmond, Virginia. He wasn’t the only one...

Microsoft buys UK mapping service

"Microsoft has bought online mapping company Multimap to expand its web business, the US firm said. Multimap, which was established in 1996, is among the UK's top 10 visited websites, receiving more than 10 million users each month. Microsoft hopes that the acquisition "will...

Google Earth Gets Sharper Satellite

Great..now Google will get to see my in my panties in my living...

Oops, another top secret exposed

Image on right is a screen grab of Microsoft's Virtual Earth showing the Ohio class ballistic missile submarine in dry dock near Bangor in Washington state. Inset: 2003 photo of USS Virginia in contstruction...

If Clicks Were Votes - Republican Candidates

It's just an idea, mapped out. Cool and thought-provoking."The 2008 Presidential election is still over a year away, but the campaign is in full swing. While it’s still far too early to make any predictions...

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