Tagged: Satellite
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ESA warns about urgent need to act on space debris News
25.04.2013 There is an urgent need to remove orbiting space debris that could potentially disrupt future satellites and to fly satellites in the future without creating new fragments –... -
NASA scientist talks Earth Day, climate change and sea ice News
18.04.2013 NASA climate scientist Dr Claire Parkinson has been working at the space agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center since 1978. She speaks to Carmel Doyle about Earth Day and her... -
€1m satellite technology competition opens for Irish entries News
02.04.2013 Start-ups and third-level researchers with ideas for new innovations using satellite navigation technology can now submit their entries for this year’s European Satellite...Categories: Science, Intellectual Property, Engineering, Energy, Education, Application Design and Development -
ECC decision to enable better broadband satellite service for trains, planes and ships News
13.03.2013 Plane, trains and ships may receive better broadband satellite service within weeks now that the expert group responsible for harmonising the efficient use of the radio spectrum... -
Landsat satellite launches to monitor Earth’s changing landscape News
12.02.2013 Described as one of the most important space launches of 2013, the latest Landsat mission hurled into space yesterday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The Landsat... -
Sky’s entry into Irish broadband market to kick off price wars News
07.02.2013 Sky this morning entered the Irish broadband market with DSL broadband and phone services starting at €30, as well as triple play unlimited broadband, phone and TV packages... -
Russia-launched satellite crashes into Pacific seconds after lift-off News
01.02.2013 A Russian rocket carrying a telecommunications satellite crashed into the Pacific Ocean this morning around 50 seconds after it blasted off from an ocean-based floating platform. -
Digiweb launches 20Mbps satellite broadband service News
31.01.2013 Digiweb has launched a new range of satellite broadband packages with download speeds of 20Mbps and upload speeds of 6Mbps. -
New space start-up plans to launch spacecraft to mine asteroids by 2015 News
22.01.2013 A new US space company by the name of Deep Space Industries is set to launch today, with the aim of sending spacecraft into space by 2015 to hunt for and explore asteroids that... -
NASA-NOAA satellite reveals new nighttime images of Earth (video) News
06.12.2012 From single pinpricks of light to networks of glowing galaxies, planet Earth glitters at night, reveals a new global composite image built using cloud-free night images from a... -
Youth revolution: half US and UK viewers consume TV via broadband News
28.11.2012 Some 50pc of US consumers and 48pc of UK consumers are watching over-the-top (OTT) video through a broadband connection on their TVs in addition to traditional cable or... -
Shortage of Saorview set top boxes predicted as 100,000 to lose TV tomorrow in switchover News
23.10.2012 Between 80,000 and 100,000 homes in Ireland will lose their TV signal when the long-serving analogue signal is switched off tomorrow. An additional 300,000 secondary TVs in... -
Can tea dances prevent 200k homes from losing TV during ‘Digital Switchover’ on 24 October? News
17.09.2012 This afternoon, Ireland's Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte, TD, kicked off National Digital Switchover Week, 17-23 September. The very tone of the campaign suggests that... -
Archaeologist may have discovered new pyramids using Google Earth News
14.08.2012 Using images captured by Google Earth, satellite archaeology researcher Angela Micol has discovered two sites in Egypt that may be home to eight undiscovered pyramids. -
Sky Broadband and Sky Talk to arrive in Ireland via major deal with BT News
26.07.2012 Sky Broadband and Sky Talk will be offering services across Ireland from later this year after the broadcaster struck a wholesale deal with BT Ireland. The move will see... -
European Commission-backed internet service boosts reliability of GPS News
26.07.2012 The European Commission’s new European Data Access Service (EDAS) internet service claims to make it possible to obtain more accurate GPS data via the internet in addition to...Categories: Wireless Communications, Networking & Telecoms, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Digital Media, Communications -
Broadband demand in Ireland flattening out News
14.06.2012 Subscriptions for broadband in Ireland are holding steady but not showing any significant increase, the latest quarterly report from ComReg reveals. Overall internet... -
ESA’s Envisat satellite stops sending data to Earth News
13.04.2012 The European Space Agency (ESA) has declared a spacecraft emergency as it is trying to establish why its Envisat satellite has suddenly stopped sending data to Earth after 10... -
Merlin reaches US$1.6m settlement with Sirius News
05.04.2012 Independent music rights agency Merlin has agreed to a US$1.6m settlement with the US satellite radio company Sirius XM. The class-action lawsuit centred on the Stiletto device,... -
Growth of tablets and smartphones drives Wi-Fi surge - ComReg News
13.03.2012 Despite a decline in the number of Wi-Fi hotspots in Ireland, a 60pc increase in the use of Wi-Fi minutes in the fourth quarter of 2011 reflects growth in the number of tablets...Categories: Communications, Consumer Tech, Mobile, Mobility, Networking & Telecoms, Wireless Communications