Australia Plans Satellite System
Australia Plans Satellite System to Protect World's Forests (Voice of America)
Australian officials are calling for global support for a satellite monitoring system to combat illegal logging and the destruction of forests in Asia and the Pacific. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports.
Satellite Monitoring System For Sochi 2014 Launched (GamesBids.com)
Sochi 2014 announced that the Federal Agency of Forestry (Rosleskhoz) has launched a satellite monitoring system for Sochi and the Krasnodar Region forests to control compliance for the Russian environmental legislation during Sochi’s preparation for the 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
IIT-KGP to do satellite survey of tea gardens in Asom,Bengal:Ramesh (Deepika)
Kolkata, Jul 29 (UNI) IIT-Kharagpur will prepare a comprehensive satellite survey of all the small tea growers in Bengal and Assam and a land-use atlas of these two states.
India to launch dedicated military satellite (Press Trust of India)
New Delhi, Jul 29 (PTI) India is on the threshhold of joining a select band of advanced countries by putting into orbit a dedicated military satellite.
US, EU Cooperate on Satellite Navigation Systems (PC World via Yahoo! News)
The European Union and the U.S. Thursday announced a breakthrough in their efforts to make Galileo and GPS (global positioning system), their respective satellite navigation systems, interoperable.
Local Satellite Company Teams Up With Swiss (WTOP Radio Network)
Satellite company Iridium Satellite LLC is in talks with a Swiss-based scientific consortium to include tools that could monitor weather and other earth conditions on Iridium's new fleet of communications satellites, Iridium's chief executive said Friday.
First Baptist McKinney to play host for leadership summit via satellite (McKinney Courier-Gazette)
First Baptist McKinney, 1615 W. Louisiana St., will serve as the satellite site for Leadership Summit 2007, an annual gathering of church and business leaders Aug. 9-11 conducted by the Willow Creek Association.
XM Satellite Radio narrows loss (Los Angeles Times)
XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. narrowed its quarterly loss from a year earlier, the company reported, as it continued to add subscribers while seeking regulatory approval for an acquisition by rival Sirius Satellite Radio.
India to launch military satellite by year end (rediff.com)
The satellite will give India the capability to keep tabs on missile launches in its neighbourhood.