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Galileo Valley Helps Design Advanced Satellite Navigation Systems in Europe

With 12 October's launch of Soyuz from Europe's Spaceport there are now four operational Galileo satellites in Space which allows for the so-called In Orbit Validation of the Galileo system.

24 Oct 2012

Imec Help in the Development of Thin-film Solar Energy

Imec and its partners in the Solliance initiative announce that they have launched, together with the Institute of Materials Research of the University of Hasselt (IMO), the Solar Flare Interreg Project.

From imec Inc. 6 Oct 2012

RFEL Introduce a Dynamic Range of High-Speed ADCs for Wireless Communications

RFEL, who specialize in high performance electronic signal processing solutions, has produced a solution to overcome the common performance bottleneck of the dynamic range of high speed ADCs that can prevent innovative projects in wireless communications and instrumentation from getting off the ground.

5 Oct 2012

Highway Engineers to Adapt Helicopter Technology to Test Tree Viability

Highway engineers and horticulturalists have adapted the latest in helicopter technology to solve a critical safety problem in their own industries, tree viability.

From Sensor Technology 13 Sep 2012

Trimble Launches Connected Farm App for Smartphones Platforms

Trimble recently unveiled a Connected Farm app for smartphone platforms. Based on smartphone’s integrated Global Positioning System (GPS), this free app efficiently collects in-field information to promote quick and precise decision making.

From Trimble Navigation Limited 30 Aug 2012

US Fleet Tracking Offers Live GPS Tracking at Republican National Convention

With the arrival of the Republican National Convention with over 50,000 individuals in Tampa, Florida, the weather and Tropical Storm Isaac is being highlighted more than the political landscape.

28 Aug 2012

GE Acquires Leak Detection Sensor Manufacturer, Naxys

GE declared that it has signed an agreement to acquire Naxys, a supplier of passive acoustic technology-based subsea leak detection and condition monitoring sensors.

14 Aug 2012

Survey Highlights Importance of Installing Carbon Monoxide Alarms

On behalf of Kidde and the California Safe Homes Coalition, a survey was conducted by an independent research group, Qualtrics.

3 Jul 2012

Researchers Present New Method to Detect Hypothetical Axions

Daniel Grumiller and Gabriela Mocanu, researchers at the Vienna University of Technology, have devised a new technique to demonstrate the existence of theoretical ‘axions,’ which may encircle a black hole and extort energy from it. This may result in the emission of gravity waves, which can then be calculated.

21 Jun 2012

RAIDS Improves Accuracy of Advanced Techniques for Remote Sensing Of Ionosphere

Scientists at Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have used scans from the Remote Atmospheric and Ionospheric Detection System (RAIDS) experiment and acquired an altitude profile of a dim extreme-ultraviolet terrestrial airglow emission. This provides critical information that is required for enhancing the sophisticated methodologies required for performing remote sensing of the daytime ionosphere.

19 May 2012