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Galileo satellites go into wrong, lower orbit
Posted in Science on 26th Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller
The European Space Agency (Esa) says the latest two satellites for Europe's version of the American GPS satellite navigation system have not gone into the correct orbit.
NASA satellite set to help farmers combat drought
Posted in Hardware on 23rd Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller
NASA is set to launch a new satellite with the capacity to measure soil moisture on a global scale.
SpaceX raising $200M in funding at $10 billion valuation
Posted in Hardware on 20th Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller
The company that Elon Musk hopes will carry him to Mars has been making big strides in recent months, winning contracts to provide the rockets that ferry satellites into space.
The Super-Imaging Satellite That Will Double Google Maps Resolution
Posted in Software on 15th Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller
The quality of commercial space-based imagery is about to take a quantum leap forward.
Google helps 'citizen scientist' group recover data from abandoned NASA satellite
Posted in Hardware on 10th Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller
Skycorp managed to resurrect a zombie satellite that had been decommissioned due to NASAs meager budget.