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POPSSouth Korea Launches First Rocket Into Space Your request is being processed... South Korea Launches First Rocket Into Space digg Share this on Facebook Huffpost - South Korea Launches First Rocket Into Space stumble reddit del.ico.us ShareThis RSS JIN-MAN LEE | 08/25/09 07:44 AM | AP I Like ItI Don’t Like It Read More: Korean Satellite, South Korea, South Korea First Rocket, South Korea Rocket, Space Ministry, Space Race, World News Retweet this story! The South Korea Space Launch Vehicle-1, South Korea's first space rocket, takes off from the launch pad at the Naro Space Center, at a beach in Goheung, south of Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009. The country's first rocket blasted off into space Tuesday following an aborted attempt last week and just months after its rival North Korea drew international ire for its own launch. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Choi Jae-koo) Get Breaking News Alerts never spam * Share * Print * Comments GOHEUNG, South Korea — South Kor
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POPSSat Marks the Spot, Uncovers Pirate Weapons Haul In parallel, satellite imagery captured from southern Sudan showed tracked vehicles, parked under camouflage, at a Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) compound northeast of Juba, the capital of South Sudan. Jane’s observed that SPLA attempts to conceal the location “were deliberate and masterful, but dimensional analysis, tracked-vehicle scarring and the staging of three vehicles in a tactical perimeter established the concealed vehicles as tanks.” All told, Jane’s estimates that South Sudan has ordered around 100 main battle tanks. Observers have worried that an arms race is now under way between the Khartoum government and the government of South Sudan. A comprehensive peace deal was reached in 2005 after two decades of civil war, but that agreement has recently frayed. A referendum in 2011 opens the possibility that South Sudan may secede
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POPSThe 'Fears' of America The United States are just going to have to get used to the fact that the world does not revolve around its concerns. If they can live with a Nuclear Armed Israel then they will just have to learn to live with an Iranian Satellite or two. There is a big wide world out there who do not see themselves as lying within the 'Pax Americana'. Learn to live with it !
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POPSWatch The Inauguration From Space For a wholly different perspective on the inauguration, keep your eyes peeled for photos from the satellite imagery company GeoEye. It will be snapping photos of the ceremony from a vantage 423 miles above Washington, D.C. Faces won't be visible, of course, but the crowds--anticipated to number as many as 2 million people--certainly will.
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POPSU.S. Missile-Warning Satellite Fails Discovered by amateur astronomers! .:p .:confused: It underscored the urgency of getting the new Space Based Infrared Satellite (SBIRS) system being developed by Lockheed Martin Corp into orbit. The SBIRS program was launched in 1996 with an eye to launching the first satellites in 2004 at a cost of $4.2 billion. The program has been restructured several times and its price tag is now seen at well over $11 billion Hitchens said some amateur astronomers, who use optical and radio telescopes to track objects in space, suggested the DSP satellite may have been adrift in geosynchronous orbit, which could pose a danger to other satellites operating in that orbit, she said.
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POPSGeoEye-1, Google's Satellite Sends First Image In an interview for Wired magazine, GeoEye's vice president of communications and marketing, Mark Brender, explained, “This is the opposite of a spy satellite. Spies don't put info on the Internet and sell imagery. We're an Earth-imaging satellite, and we can sell our imagery to customers around the world who have a need to map and measure and monitor things on the ground. We're commercializing a technology that was once only in the hands of the governments. Just like the internet, just like GPS, just like telecom – all invented by the government. And now we are on the front end of the spear that is commercializing this technology.”
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POPSGoogle's GeoEye-1 Satellite GeoEye Inc successfully launched its new GeoEye-1 satellite, which will provide Google Earth users and others the highest-resolution commercial color satellite imagery on the market.
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POPSTop Sharia Judge Issues Fatwa Authorizing Murders of Satellite TV Owners.... Fatwas are regularly issued on everyday issues, although they do not have the weight of law. One of the most viewed Arab satellite networks is Rotana, which broadcasts films and music videos. It is owned by Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, a billionaire businessman and member of the Saudi royal family whom Forbes ranks as the world's 13th richest person. Several other networks are owned by Saudi princes. Al-Lihedan did not specify particular channels in his judgment.
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POPS"Armchair Archaeology" with Google Earth “Google Earth gives you free access to imagery that would otherwise cost a fortune, and require specialist training to make use of,” says Dr Ur. And being able to pan and zoom the satellite images quickly makes it much easier to spot archaeological features and relate them to each other.
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