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Systems Tool Kit (formerly known as Satellite Tool Kit) version 10 is now available. With this release, Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) has changed the product name to better reflect the software’s ability to model, analyse and visualise complex land, sea, air and space-based systems, along with their behaviour and performance.Other Posts:Japan likely to scrap moon probeRussian military (navigation?) satellite launchedRT Logic to develop new software-defined modem for IridiumWhen Choosing the Best TV Provider, Customer Service is ImportantBall Aerospace develops flight computers for new launch vehiclesKorean rocket’s failure not Khrunichev’s fault, Russia saysSpaceX’s Dragon to use solar power4th Boeing-built WGS satellite accepted by U.S. Air Force
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Scientists in the Advanced Materials and Nanosystems directorate at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in Palo Alto have developed a nanotechnology copper-based electrical interconnect material, or solder, that can be processed around 200 degrees C.

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“With it’s intergalactic range of 85 miles [136 km], the S3 Krypton is the first and only handheld laser visible from outer space,” claims a company called Wicked Lasers and warns – nudge nudge, wink wink – that it must not be directed against satellites. A hand-held satellite zapper for less than US$1,000?
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ESA has added Envisat time radar images to its MIRAVI web site, which so far has offered only optical images. While both are near real-time images, another site takes an opposite approach, offering visitors the opportunity to monitor changes over decades. U.S. company Esri, working in close collaboration with the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), has released Landsat image services that cover almost 40 years.
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The Indian Space Research Organisation said it has built a supercomputer, which is to be India’s fastest supercomputer in terms of theoretical peak performance of 220 TeraFLOPS (220 Trillion Floating Point Operations per second).
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