Monthly Archives: July 2009

Solar Power: New SunCatcher Power System Ready For Commercial Production In 2010

Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF). Called SunCatchers™, the new dishes have a refined design that will be used in … Continue reading

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Space Weather

What are we talking about when we describe the weather on Earth? We usually think of temperature, the speed and direction of the wind, air pressure, whether rain or snow is falling…Basically, when we say “weather” we mean conditions in … Continue reading

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Faults and earthquakes in China monitored from space

Western China is in a very seismically active area and has had many catastrophic earthquakes during its history. A joint European-Chinese team is using satellite radar data to monitor ground deformation across major continental faults in China to understand better … Continue reading

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Isro,India preparing satellite to map climate change

The Indian Space Research Organisation is working on a geostationary satellite, which it plans to hand over in two to three years to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) to help it unravel climate change trends.”The satellite will help IMD track … Continue reading

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