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Featured Articles » China 's Rising Space Profile - and Why NASA Likes It » SpaceX Plans to Test Reusable Suborbital VTVL Rocket in Texas » Florida Fusses Over NASA Wallops Upgrades to Support 'Manned Spaceflight' » Other Than Google Moon, Congress Hearing on Spaceflight = Obama/NASA Bashing   Sponsored By: GoGrid Graduate from the Commodity Cloud Wednesday October 12, 2011 2:00 PM EDT/ 11:00 PM PDT Register Today! What Attendees Will Learn: Insight on why and when the commodity cloud might not be the best solution How to give your team the infrastructure that best suits the complex needs of your business How are companies realizing ROI in the cloud   Top Stories » Globalstar Reports Surge in Data Processing by Its Satellite-Based Simplex Data Network » ORBCOMM in Pact with Camgian to Provide M2M Industrial Supply Chain Solution » Swedish Day Care Beginning to use GPS to Track Their Children » Deconstructing the First $18 Billion of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS)   From The Expert Corner September 27, 2011 Beyond a Rocket and a Capsule - What NASA Needs for Deep Space Exploration By Doug Mohney, Contributing Editor With the announcement of the heavy lift Space Launch System (SLS), NASA has funding and clear direction to build a big rocket and the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) to carry a crew of four for 28 days. But if you look more closely, the agency needs to flesh out its technology portfolio quite a bit to get into the deep space exploration business. There are a lot of Powerpoint proposals floating around and some trial projects to further develop all the tools needed to go the Moon, an asteroid, or Mars. More efficient propulsion is at the top of the list. The hard-core rocket guys want a nuclear engine, but there's not a lot of urgency in the current Administration or in Congress to get into a project which will torque off environmentalists. Solar electric propulsion – using solar panels to generate electricity, then applying it to a steady/constant thrust – is currently on the table.   Earlier this month, NASA awarded contracts to Analytical Mechanics Associates, Ball Aerospace, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman (News - Alert) to develop a report to define a mission concept for demonstrating the infrastructure; each individual contract is worth up to $600,000... Read More   From The Blogs Madison Cain, Daughter of Journey's Jonathan Cain, uses Skype for Vocal Teaching September 21, 2011 By: Tom Keating Madison Cain, 17 year old daughter of legendary Journey keyboardist and song writer Jonathan Cain apparently works with a vocal teacher via Skype to improve her singing skills. Score another useful feature for Skype! I knew Skype was used for teaching others how to speak other languages, but didn't know the "universal" language of music was also taught via Skype. You would think that the acoustics would be different speaking into a microphone which is then transmitted over VoIP to a vocal teacher wouldn't be as accurate as the vocal teacher being there in person... Read More    Featured Videos Satellite as a Service, Yes its True    Featured Resources » IBM Informix TimeSeries: Benchmark Testing Demonstrates Unprecedented Performance and Scalability For Meter Data Management. » 8 Use Cases: How to Drive Call Center Performance with End User Experience Monitoring » SMS: The Voice Alternative Channel that Speaks Volumes   TMCnet's Blogs » XSS Exploit in Skype Lets Hackers Steal iPhone Address Book   Featured Channels » Managed Networks » Satellite Optimization » Cloud Communications    SatelliteSpotlight.com is Your Source for the Latest Satellite News   and Information   Sign Up For FREE    |    Visit Site    |    Free Magazine Subscription   Advertise With Us   General advertising Info: Click here   Contact Us   Company Directory    |    All Editors' Info   Become a TMCnet columnist! Become a TMCnet columnist! Want to contribute your expertise to a growing audience of technology professionals? Become a writer, blogger or columnist for the TMCnet Web site and this newsletter. Contact TMCnet Group Editorial Director, Erik Linask, at elinask@tmcnet.com for details.

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