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National Defense August 2013 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Industry May Have Answer to Weather Forecasting Blind Spot The United States faces a gap in future weather forecasts. From less accurate to untimely predictions, there could be dire consequences for the U.S. population and economy, warned a recent Government Accountability Office report.
IEEE Spectrum April 2006 Barry E. DiGregorio	Roundabout Way of Profiling Earth's Atmosphere Here's how new methods of measuring temperature, pressure, and humidity using GPS signals should improve weather forecasting.
T.H.E. Journal August 1999 Stephen M. Portz - Space Coast Middle School	Satellite Technologies in the Classroom ...Though the data is often not in real time, the ease of accessibility, the range and quantity of images, and the archival capabilities of the Internet make the use of satellite imagery a great educational activity...
IEEE Spectrum June 2006 Stephen Barlas	Troubled Weather Satellite Program Cost overruns and project delays have led to a cloudy forecast for the United States' new polar-orbiting weather satellites. The problems with the polar satellites are a major concern for the whole enterprise of monitoring Earth from outer space.
IEEE Spectrum December 2009 David Schneider	Iridium Will Host Science Payloads New satellites will give space and wattage for Earth-sensing experiments.
Defense Update Issue 1, 2005	Tactical Satellite Communications Networks With flexible operational services and compact ground terminals, Satellite Communications (SATCOM) services offer attractive solutions for military users in theater and on global links.
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Sandra Upson	U.S. Earth-Sensing Satellites Left Out In the Cold The degree of precision needed to forecast hurricanes, and the future accuracy of climate modeling as well, may be in danger if recent trends in Earth-observing satellite programs persist.
Popular Mechanics December 20, 2007 Alex Hutchinson	Satellite to Measure Rain From Space, Outsmart Your Weatherman Rain precipitation is difficult to predict, so scientists are using satellites to improve predictions.
National Defense February 2009 Grace V. Jean	Getting to the Bottom of Global Warming -- From Space The first of several satellites designed to monitor Earth's greenhouse gases has reached orbit and will begin collecting data in the coming months.
Science News February 28, 2009	Science Past For February 28, 1959 The United States has launched into orbit the first baby weather station in space. It was hurled into its earth-circling path at 10:55 a.m., Feb. 17, and its predicted lifetime is several decades.
IEEE Spectrum July 2011 Eliza Strickland	Satellites and Supercomputers Say 6 to 10 Hurricanes Coming U.S. scientists predict a stormy season; new satellites and simulations coming too
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Robert Gall & David Parsons	It's Hurricane Season: Do You Know Where Your Storm is? Souped-up satellites, supercomputers, and superior science might soon mean you really can trust the weather report.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 Courtney E. Howard	Lockheed Martin launches modernized satellite series Spacecraft in the modernized series are designed to benefit the military with two new signals, improved encryption, and anti-jamming capabilities.
Geotimes July 2004 Sara Pratt	Recalculating the Warming Trend Over the past 15 years climate researchers have observed that while temperatures at the earth's surface have been quickly on the rise, the troposphere has been warming more slowly than expected.
IEEE Spectrum April 2010 Sigrid Close	Shooting Stars Can Shoot Down Satellites We don't know enough about meteoroids
IEEE Spectrum September 2007 Suhas Sreedhar	Night Life as Seen From Space Scientists plan satellite to snap pictures of cities at night.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 Ben Ames	Three teams compete to build NOAA climate satellite The next-generation GOES-R satellites will collect 100 times more data and scan the Earth three- to-five times faster than previous systems.
National Defense July 2014 Yasmin Tadjdeh	New Chinese Threats to U.S. Space Systems Worry Officials If China continues to make strides and develops weapons that reach farther, it could one day threaten key satellites in geosynchronous orbit.
National Defense June 2004 Peter Teets	Space Programs Reflect War-Fighting Priorities Space systems increasingly have become integrated into national intelligence and war-fighting operations.
Geotimes October 2005 Sara Pratt	Revisiting the Satellite Record Global warming skeptics have long pointed to satellite data showing cooling in the tropical atmosphere as evidence that either climate models or measurements of surface warming, or both, are unreliable. New research suggests, however, that it is the analysis of the satellite data that was wrong.
National Defense January 2008 Stew Magnuson	Promise of `Revolution' in Satellite Communications Faces Challenges Recently, the Air Force launched the first of five Wideband Global Satcom spacecraft, marking the first in a series of four constellations that will revolutionize the military's ability to communicate with forces on the ground.
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Barry E. DiGregorio	Tsunami Surveillance By Satellites Could a system relying on signaling between GPS satellites and ground stations provide prompter warnings? A group of scientists say they have developed a concept for such a system and that it could detect deadly tsunamis in as little as 15 minutes.
National Defense July 2011 Stew Magnuson	Air Force Embraces Small Satellites As Budget Outlook Grows Dim With the federal budget expected to shrink in the coming years, Air Force officials are already looking at ways to maintain the capabilities they must deliver to the armed services.
National Defense June 2009 Stew Magnuson	New Satellites to Keep Watch Over Space-Based Systems Two new satellites may be launched later this year that will help the U.S. defense community better understand what is happening to the multi-million dollar spacecraft it depends on.
National Defense January 2011 Stew Magnuson	Out-of-Synch Satellite and Terminal Programs Cost Pentagon Millions It is an example of a longtime problem in the U.S. military: a lack of coordination between those who build and launch satellites, and those who develop the devices that connect the billion-dollar spacecraft with soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines.
National Defense December 2007 Stew Magnuson	Murky Picture of What's Happening in Space Worries Air Force Officials There is a deterrent value to space situational awareness that doesn't grab the attention it should.
IEEE Spectrum April 2013 Jean Kumagai	Protecting the Power Grid From Solar Storms New spacecraft will aid forecasts of space weather.
Science News June 17, 2000	Disaster Pix If you're one of those people who need to see the extent of intense weather events and great natural disasters---perferably as they are developing---this Web site is for you....
IEEE Spectrum August 2006	Modeling Toward Accurate Storm Forecasting For the time being, getting the weather right will still require a large dose of good fortune. But continued improvements in our weather predicting capabilities will eventually take the guessing out of storm prediction and bring us to the moment when wagering on the weather will be a safe bet indeed.
National Defense April 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Can DARPA Rescue the Pentagon From Its Acquistion Doldrums? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched a program last year to figure out how to build complex weapons five times faster than before. Now comes word that they also intend to revolutionize the way the military buys communications satellites.
AskMen.com Bernie Alexander	Satellite Radio: Signals From Space With the recent news of Howard Stern moving over to this medium, the emergence of satellite radio may be the start of a media revolution.
Popular Mechanics July 2007 Carl Hoffman	China's Space Threat: How Missiles Could Target U.S. Satellites The Chinese have successfully destroyed an old weather satellite in space, prompting other countries to respond.
National Defense September 2013 Dan Parsons	Simple, Inexpensive Jammers Threaten GPS GPS presents a juicy target to potential adversaries and criminals alike, the Department of Homeland Security has recognized. Industry is preemptively developing technologies to protect the GPS signal and identify anyone trying to disrupt its transmission.
Popular Mechanics February 14, 2008 Joe Pappalardo	Satellite Shot Offers Navy Key Space Defense Trial: How It Works The Pentagon today announced that a Navy warship has been tasked with shooting down a failing United States spy satellite that, if left alone, was expected to hit Earth within weeks.
National Defense August 2014 Stew Magnuson	New Satellite Systems to Boost Communication Coverage in Arctic A Navy report says the Arctic region is warming up at twice the pace of the rest of the Earth. This has important national security implications.
National Defense July 2010 Stew Magnuson	Taking Out the Trash: What Can Be Done About Space Debris? What goes up doesn't necessarily come down when it comes to manmade objects orbiting the planet.
National Defense July 2011 Grace V. Jean	Remotely Piloted Aircraft Fuel Demand for Satellite Bandwidth The communications-hungry drones consume large amounts of bandwidth to pipe battlefield video feeds and other sensor data back to intelligence centers and to forces on the ground.
National Defense June 2004 Michael Peck	Contractor Selection Near for Navy Satellites The Navy is nearly ready to select a contractor for the mobile user objective system (MUOS), a constellation of ultra high frequency communications satellites designed to replace the current UFO (UHF Follow-On) system.
Geotimes July 2007 Carolyn Gramling	X-ray Eyes in the Sky Scientists are working on the next generation of low-orbiting satellites that they hope will see far past the Earth's surface and into its interior, to better understand the structure and composition of Earth's crust, mantle and core.
Popular Mechanics February 2009 Roxana Tiron	As Satellite Program Fails, New Plans Arise to Take its Place The Pentagon needs quick ways to get small satellites into space to fill a shortfall in battlefield communication.
National Defense March 2013 Valerie Insinna	Vendor Plans to Launch Commercial Laser Satellite System Two of the U.S. military's long-standing communications problems could be solved if a new company manages to get its proposed laser-based satellite system off the ground.
Geotimes July 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Galileo Still up in the Air Hampered by financial delays and infighting among its private investors, the European Union has decided to build its 30-satellite Galileo navigation system entirely with public funds.
Wired February 2006 Patrick Radden Keefe	I Spy Amateur satellite spotters can track everything government spymasters blast into orbit. Except the stealth bird codenamed Misty.
Scientific American July 2005 Mark Alpert	Feeling the Pinch Voyager 1, now speeding out of the solar system after 28 years in space, is one of the NASA missions facing budget cuts, even though the craft is reporting remarkable discoveries.
National Defense July 2007 Stew Magnuson	Pentagon Pushes for Smaller Satellites, Faster Launches The Roadrunner satellite helps break down barriers impeding the flow of information between commanders on the ground and spacecraft, and quickly replaces assets damaged in orbit.
PC Magazine October 12, 2005 Sebastian Rupley	My Orbit: Send Your Own Satellite For about $40,000, students and organizations can send their own satellites into orbit around the Earth through the CubeSat Project.
Geotimes November 2004 Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr.	Geologic Mapping for the Future Current efforts to develop an integrated Global Earth Observation System of Systems are helping to launch a new voyage of scientific discovery.
Scientific American December 2008 Mark Fischetti	How GPS Units Work How handheld global positioning system devices can determine your position on Earth -- even when indoors.
National Defense July 2011 Stew Magnuson	Troubled Space-Based Infrared Satellite Program Finally Gets Off the Ground On May 7, the Air Force successfully sent to geosynchronous orbit GEO-1, the first SBIRS satellite. It was a long, tortuous road, lasting some 15 years with a price tag that will come to $10.4 billion.
IndustryWeek December 14, 2011	Loral Space Focuses on Customer Signals Profit skyrockets for satellite producer on heightened customer awareness and continuous-improvement strategies.