1999 plan from #Swatch (the colorful timepiece folks) to have the Russians deploy a #satellite that would transmit messages provided by Swatch fans back to Earth via amateur 2m frequencies.
The messages, gathered via the Swatch Web site, related to the Swatch company’s campaign to establish the “Swatch Beat” as a new “global concept of time.”
Needless to say, this aroused some controversy in the #HamRadio community.Transmissions never took place.
Thread radio frequency interference (RFI) 🧵
During the last winter we had to filter out large parts of our SMOS satellite thin ice data due to radio frequency interference (RFI): the grey ocean area in the image.
Luckily #SMOS is not alone: NASA's #SMAP#satellite can compensate for most of the gap. This map shows the same day 11 Feb 2024 for the merged SMAP/SMOS thin ice thickness.
"The incitement channel Al Jazeera will be closed in Israel," #Netanyahu posted on social media following the unanimous cabinet vote.
A govt stmnt said #Israel's comms minister signed orders to "act immediately", but at least one lawmaker who supported the closure said #AlJazeera could still try to block it in court.
The measure… will include closing Al Jazeera's offices in Israel, #confiscating broadcast equipment, cutting off the channel from #cable & #satellite …& blocking its #websites.
Un différend franco-allemand menace de faire dérailler le programme Internet par satellite de l’UE
Des dépenses excessives de 5 milliards d'euros et des allégations selon lesquelles le projet favoriserait l'industrie française ont provoqué une guerre des mots entre Paris, Berlin et la Commission européenne.
Missing persons seearch at the Grand Canyon National Park.
On April 21, 2024, a vehicle belonging to Thomas L. Robison of Santa Fe, NM was found abandoned at Lees Ferry within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Thomas Robison, 58, is believed to have attempted to travel down the Colorado River with his small dog on a wooden raft.
Robison is described as a white male, 5’10” in height and 160 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes.
Anyone who may have seen Thomas Robison are asked to contact Grand Canyon Dispatch at 928-638-7805. A missing person investigation is on-going and no further information is available at this time.
Sentinel-2 satellite view of Lee's Ferry on 4-21-2024. (not high enough resolution to pick out a raft, person, or Corgi -- or even a Toyota Tacoma). #satellite#RemoteImaging
Orenburg, Russia on April 10, 2023 vs. April 11, 2024. Significant number of neighborhoods appear to have been built in a floodplain. (Sentinel-2 satellite) #flooding#russia#satellite#remoteimaging#disaster
Ha! NASA has a satellite specifically launched to track plankton (among other things)...
"The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite was launched on Feb. 8, and has been put through several weeks of in-orbit testing of the spacecraft and instruments to ensure proper functioning and data quality. The mission is gathering data that the public now can access at https://pace.oceansciences.org/access_pace_data.htm."
For the first time, potential signs of the rainbow-like ‘glory effect’ have been detected on a planet outside our Solar System. Glory are colourful concentric rings of light that occur only under peculiar conditions.
Data from ESA’s sensitive Characterising ExOplanet Satellite, Cheops, along with several other ESA and NASA missions, suggest this delicate phenomenon is beaming straight at Earth from the hellish atmosphere of ultra-hot gas giant WASP-76b, 637 light-years away.
Extreme weather, including flooding, is becoming more frequent as climate change takes its toll on the planet. One of the many regions to be hit by floods in recent years is the south of France, with heavy rainfalls caused in part by humidity above the Mediterranean Sea.
The Robusta-3A satellite, launching on Ariane 6’s first mission, is set to fly 580 km over our planet to help quantify the accumulation of water vapour over the Mediterranean Sea and improve the forecast of severe rain leading to flooding.
It turns out I did have imaging for the find location. Likely here. Would have been tough as you have to do an A/B Google Earth 3D view to see any difference in the scene. Definitely would have required a ground search/confirmation of possible signatures. #SearchAndRescue#SAR#satellite#remoteimaging
📷 Hidden in this deep sky image (left) is a truly miniscule group of stars (right), bound together by their own gravity (and maybe even dark matter!), in orbit around the Milky Way Credit: CFHT/S. Gwyn (right) / S. Smith (left).
Android's #satellite#messaging support has been in the works for about a year now, and it sounds like #Android 15 is going to launch the feature for apps.
The new OS is including notifications and better status bar indicators for when you're connected to space.
A "NonTerrestrialNetwork" API will let apps know when they're limited to barely there satellite connectivity.
Google says Android 15 will let third-party SMS and MMS applications tap into the satellite connectivity APIs,
but enhanced messaging with RCS support will be limited to "preloaded" applications only.