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How Will NASA Track the Largest Satellite Crashdown in 30 Years?
There’s a nearly 6-ton big-as-a-bus and pretty much dead climate satellite—the largest in three decades—about to smack uncontrolled into planet Earth. There’s also a chance, albeit a ridiculously small one, that someone could get hit by one of its several dozens pieces made up of titanium, aluminum, steel and beryllium—the biggest …
NASA Satellite Shows Hurricane Irene Lashing Bahamas
Want to see what a major hurricane looks like chewing through a nation of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets? NASA’s TRMM satellite has the goods, displaying Hurricane Irene—white tendrils of tropical fury stretching hundreds of miles north and south of the island chain—as it whips over Crooked Island in the Bahamas.
TRMM, …
Dish Network Wins Blockbuster with $320 Million Bid at Auction
Remember Blockbuster? Poor Blockbuster. All it wanted to do was rent movies to people. Then Netflix came along with a more appealing offering: movies sent right to your house with no late fees.
By the time Blockbuster got its wits about it and started offering a similar service that worked both through the mail and at its retail …
Google Earth Satellite Images Capture Japan Quake Damage
Japan’s Friday earthquake estimated death toll is in the thousands; and while the story can be told in words, nothing can describe the videos and photos that have followed. ABC News in Australia has pooled together some interactive Google Earth aerial satellite images surveying the before and after photos of the chaos on the …
Cord-Cut No More: Pay TV Numbers Rise For Q4 2010
The days of cord-cutting talk may be over, with analysts predicting that the number of pay TV subscribers will have grown in the final quarter of 2010 amid fears that viewers were choosing to bypass television for other methods of watching TV shows.
Verizon reported growth in its FiOS TV service earlier this week, and Time Warner …
Android-Powered Satellite Headed to Space
First came web browsing, then multitasking, now Android is ready to go where no smartphone platform has gone before: Outer space.
Researchers at the University of Surrey and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) are dissecting Google’s mobile operating system to create the first ever satellite powered by a smartphone.
The …
DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket Gets More Features, iPad Streaming
DirecTV subscribers, I envy you. Moreso this year than in previous years. Not only can you get the NFL Sunday Ticket package, which grants you access to live coverage of almost every NFL game, but this year you’ll also get all the extra stuff you had to pay an additional $99 for in previous years.
DirecTV is now offering its $300 NFL …