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NTU Successfully Launches Its Fifth And Sixth Satellites
2015-12-18 05:36:44| rfglobalnet Home Page
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) successfully launched two satellites last night: a climate monitoring and navigation satellite, and the university’s first satellite with a commercial payload.
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A new space race: satellites could test the world's climate vows
2015-12-11 00:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Scientists from the United States, Japan, and China are racing to perfect satellite technology that could one day measure greenhouse gas emissions from space, potentially transforming the winner into the world's first climate cop. Monitoring a single country's net emissions from above could not only become an important tool to establish whether it had met its promises to slow global warming, a point of contention at climate talks in Paris, but also help emitters to pinpoint the sources of greenhouse...
Virgin Galactic plans to launch satellites from a Boeing 747
2015-12-04 16:09:03| Extremetech
Virgin Galactic has unveiled a 747-400 commercial airliner, dubbed 'Cosmic Girl,' that will join the company's LauncherOne satellite launch service.
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China plans to launch carbon-tracking satellites into space
2015-12-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: China plans to launch satellites to monitor its greenhouse gas emissions as the country, estimated to be the world's top carbon emitter, steps up its efforts to cut such emissions, official news agency Xinhua said on Monday. News of the plan comes as more than 150 world leaders arrived in Paris for climate change talks and Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Barack Obama said they would work together towards striking a deal that moves towards a low-carbon global economy. According...
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Satellites need protection as 'critical infrastructure,' military says
2015-11-29 23:01:30| IT Services - Topix.net
The Canadian military launched it first satellite - Sapphire, seen in this artist's rendering - in 2013, to keep watch on the space junk orbiting the Earth. The military wants to better protect this and other Canadian satellites as 'critical infrastructure.'
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