• Tag Archives: Satellite

    Titan Aerospace unveils the Solara solar-powered atmospheric satellites

    Posted on August 20, 2013 by gavril

    Soon, the world won’t have to send satellites to outer-space to aide communication. Titan Aerospace has recently developed two solar-powered UAVs capable of flying on solar energy and staying up in the sky for weeks. Called the Solara 50 and … Continue reading3 →

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    Astronaut poop could be the newest way to power up satellites in space

    Posted on November 22, 2010 by gavril

    The outer space is full of resources that can be used to efficiently generate energy, including solar energy and astronaut poop! Well, no one really has considered using poop to create energy in outer space. The guys at the United … Continue reading3 →

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    The Cryosat-2 satellite launched to track sea ice in the Arctic

    Posted on April 21, 2010 by gavril

    Robots aren’t going to be taking over the world anytime soon. For now, they’re busy saving our environment. To join the crew, the Cryosat-2 is now up in space, working tirelessly to help track the volume of sea ice in … Continue reading3 →

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    NASA’s solar-powered satellite launched to help study the sun

    Posted on February 12, 2010 by gavril

    Major flares and similar phenomena that disrupt power grids, communication and satellite navigations will no longer take us by surprise, thanks to NASA’s latest $850 million project. This project involved sending NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory into orbit using and Atlas … Continue reading3 →

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    NASA and JAXA satellites will monitor CO2 emissions from up there

    Posted on February 16, 2009 by deepa

    Back in December, we reported about NASA’s venture, the Orbital Carbon Observatory (OCO), to keep a tab on the CO2 levels. Here is a small update on that topic. Keeping up with America’s green space mission, Japanese space agency JAXA … Continue reading3 →

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    Solar power satellite can light up whole of California and more

    Posted on November 4, 2008 by deepa

    With depleting oil reserves and swelling energy costs, it is time to hunt for alternatives that assure power in abundance. Solar powered and wind powered villages and towns aren’t new concepts. But energizing much larger areas like big states and … Continue reading3 →

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