Tag: satellite
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#MorningMonarchy: June 13, 2017
Malware power, Sirius stake and Apple sauced + this day in history w/the Pentagon Papers and our song of the day by Tuxedo on your Morning Monarchy for June 13, 2017.
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#MorningMonarchy: March 14, 2017
Spook squad, bitcoin bubble and the West Virginia quiet zone + this day in history w/“Catch A Falling Star” and our song of the day by The New Pornographers on your Morning Monarchy for March 14, 2017.
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#MorningMonarchy: November 29, 2016
Secretly editing, deleting everything and satellite sounds + this day in history w/Pong and our song of the day by NxWorries on your Morning Monarchy for November 29, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: August 16, 2016
Hacking Soros, compromising votes and bombing the sky + this day in history w/Fiddlesticks and our song of the day by Angel Olsen on your Morning Monarchy for August 16, 2016.
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DARPA Designs Giant Foldable Satellite Capable of Surveilling 40% of Earth at Once
from dailymail.co.uk: The Pentagon has designed a massive spy satellite that will dwarf any space telescope ever launched – and it point its sensitive lens back at us. The Membrane Optical Imager for Real-Time Exploitation (MOIRE) will be capable of capturing 40 percent of the surface of the Earth at once. It will be able…
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Dazzling Nighttime Rocket Launch Puts Record 29 Sats In Orbit
from space.com: A spectacular rocket launch from Virginia’s eastern shore late Tuesday (Nov. 19) lit up the night sky like an artificial sun, kicking off a record-breaking mission to put 29 satellites into orbit. The Orbital Sciences-built Minotaur 1 rocket launched into space at 8:15 p.m. EST (0115 GMT Wednesday) from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility…
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GOCE Satellite Hits Atlantic, But What About Next One?
from abcnews.go.com: This time it splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean — but what about next time? The European Space Agency says one of its research satellites re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere early Monday on an orbit that passed over Siberia, the western Pacific Ocean, the eastern Indian Ocean and Antarctica. The 1,100-kilogram (2,425-pound) satellite disintegrated…
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Satellite fragments to crash to Earth
from smh.com.au: Fragments from a science satellite are likely to crash to Earth late Sunday or early Monday after the one-tonne probe breaks up at the end of its mission, the European Space Agency (ESA) says. In a statement, the agency said when and where the pieces would land was still unclear. Experts have previously…
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Outer space demilitarization agreement threatened by new technologies
from rawstory.com: Security experts warn weaknesses in treaties and exploitation of GPS are compromising the prohibition against space weapons. Developments in satellite technologies and cyber-warfare are threatening the internationally agreed demilitarization of outer space, according to legal and security experts. Weaknesses in existing treaties and military exploitation of GPS location systems are compromising the prohibition…
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Crop Circles Made By Laser Tech
World News Tomorrow article reveals crop circles may be made with well-known laser – not alien technology. “New information has emerged that indicates that this phenomenon might not have been made by aliens, but rather aliens of a different kind closer to home, namely the home of England’s MoD. …Crop circles have become the subject…
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ORBCOMM Satellite Launched By Falcon 9 Has Fallen To Earth
Universe Today covers deorbit of secondary Space X Falcon 9 payload. One of the Merlin rocket engines had to be shutdown after a reported “anomaly,” resulting in ORBCOMM satellite failing to reach sufficient orbit to remain in space.

