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As the market for portable navigation units continues its explosive growth, Pharos Science & Applications, Inc. has debuted two new models in its Drive GPS line. The Pharos Drive GPS 250 is a new portable navigation device with a large 4.3-inch touch screen display and easy to use software.
Read More“Consumer Navigation Devices and Systems” is the title of a new study from ABI Research. This report examines the major navigation features, trends, drivers and barriers. Also included in the study is a detailed SWOT (Strengths/Weaknesses/Opportunities/Threats) analysis for each form factor.
Read MoreWhen large quantities of data need to be transmitted rapidly back and forth between satellites, a team from Oerlikon Space had demo’d the feasibility of a laser link with an effective distance of 1.5 million kilometers—for the first time, ever. Links such as this will be able to transmit data across huge distances through the universe, and this data transmission will be done more rapidly and efficiently than is possible using conventional radio links in use today.
Read MoreFrom The Hindu online news update service comes a story datelined in Beijing indicating the Chang’e-1, China’s lunar probe, will undergo no further orbital corrections.
Read MoreBy joining forces, Space Micro Inc. and DR Technologies will be bringing radiation hardened structures to both the military and space markets. They will work together to support the development, testing and marketing of new technologies and products related to intelligent, multifunctional structures for space and military applications.
Read MoreFractus has launched debuted TVNext. This product is a slim and compact internal VHF antenna (20 x 10 x 1.6mm) that can easily be integrated into wireless devices, such as mobile phones, PDAs, laptops, etc. The new antenna also completes Fractus' digital TV antenna portfolio, which now encompasses all mobile TV systems and frequency bands.
Read MoreA new and advanced technology interface named SpaceWire will be used in the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), built by Northrop Grumman for NASA. This technology will allow the telescope’s components to work far more efficiently and more reliably with each other.
Read MoreThe Honorable Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), visited the Canadian Space Agency David Florida Laboratory, in Ottawa, to view the next generation commercial satellite, RADARSAT-2. This satellite will launch on December 8, 2007 from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Read MoreOn Tuesday evening, October 23rd, at 11:38 p.m. (EST), Space Shuttle Discovery lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Low Earth orbit was successfully entered after almost 8 minutes of powered flight.
Read MoreInmedius announced the adoption of its S1000D Publishing Suite by General Dynamics C4 Systems to support the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) program’s compliance with the ASD S1000D lifecycle; from the management of logistics source data, to technical documentation production and publishing of Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) compliant training materials.
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