{"id":84417,"date":"2011-08-09T23:50:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T15:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/satellite-today-daily-links-aug-15\/"},"modified":"2011-08-09T23:50:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T15:50:16","slug":"satellite-today-daily-links-aug-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/satellite-today-daily-links-aug-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite TODAY Daily Links (Aug. 15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The editors of SatelliteTODAY.com would like to share some of this week\u2019s most interesting space and satellite&nbsp;perspectives&nbsp;from across the Web:&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For additional links,&nbsp;follow our editors on Twitter:&nbsp;<\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em>Click here for:&nbsp;SatelliteTODAY.com\u2019s Jeffrey Hill on Twitter<br \/>\nClick here for:&nbsp;Via Satellite Magazine\u2019s Mark Holmes on Twitter<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 14px; color: rgb(142, 164, 185); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; margin-top: 0px; \">NASA\u2019s &#8220;Next Big Thing&#8221; Could Actually be Small<br \/>\n<em><strong>\u2013 via&nbsp;OrlandoSentinel.com<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>&#8220;Satellites the size of lunch boxes. Planetary probes that weigh as little as a piece of paper. If these fantastic, futuristic ideas are to be turned into inventions, it will happen in Pasadena and La Ca\u00f1ada Flintridge, home to one of the greatest concentrations of scientific minds in the world\u2026.&#8221;&nbsp;read more.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 14px; color: rgb(142, 164, 185); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; margin-top: 0px; \">\nNASA, NWS celebrate satellite at Ball<br \/>\n<em><strong>\u2013 via&nbsp;BCBR.com<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>&#8220;Officials from NASA and the National Weather Service visited the Boulder headquarters of Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. on Monday to celebrate the completion of the company\u2019s latest major satellite\u2026&#8221;&nbsp;read more.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 14px; color: rgb(142, 164, 185); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; margin-top: 0px; \">\nSatellite Finds Evidence of Antimatter Belt Around Earth<br \/>\n<em><strong>\u2013 via&nbsp;Wired.com<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>&#8220;The satellite, named Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics, was launched in 2006 to study the nature of cosmic rays \u2014 high-energy particles from the Sun and beyond the solar system which barrel into Earth\u2026.&#8221;&nbsp;read more.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 14px; color: rgb(142, 164, 185); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; margin-top: 0px; \">Satellite TV Businessman Changes with the Times<br \/>\n<em><strong>\u2013 via&nbsp;TheTimesNews.com<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>&#8220;Bill Price sold his first satellite TV dish in 1984 to a customer in Chapel Hill. That was  before starting his own business in Burlington. In 1984, it was a brand new kind of deal. And the dishes? Well, they were whoppers \u2014 gadgets that looked almost more at home on the moon than in a back yard\u2026&#8221;&nbsp;read more.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 14px; color: rgb(142, 164, 185); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; margin-top: 0px; \">New communication satellite \u2018PakSat-1R\u2019 important for many reasons: Khan<br \/>\n<em><strong>\u2013 via&nbsp;App.com.pk (Associated Press of Pakistan)<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>&#8220;Pakistan\u2019s Ambassador to China, Masood Khan  has said that Pakistan\u2019s new communication satellite\u2014PakSat-1R, is important for the country for many reasons. \u201cIt is a symbol of Pakistan-China cooperation in the area of space science and technology. It is the first of the kind to be launched by China and Pakistan\u2026.&#8221;&nbsp;read more.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-size: 14px; color: rgb(142, 164, 185); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; margin-top: 0px; \">Developing Countries Get In Satellite Game<br \/>\n<em><strong>\u2013 via&nbsp;ScientificAmerican.com<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>&#8220;Developing countries don\u2019t have the same access to satellite information as do first-world nations. A given country might want to monitor dust storms, measure rice yields or track population migrations. But satellites were typically built one-at-a-time and were very pricey items\u2026.&#8221;&nbsp;read more.<br \/>\n<\/em><i><br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The editors of SatelliteTODAY.com would like to share some of this week\u2019s most interesting space and satellite&nbsp;perspectives&nbsp;from across the Web:&nbsp; For additional links,&nbsp;follow our editors on Twitter:&nbsp; Click here for:&nbsp;SatelliteTODAY.com\u2019s Jeffrey Hill on Twitter Click here for:&nbsp;Via Satellite Magazine\u2019s Mark Holmes on Twitter NASA\u2019s &#8220;Next Big Thing&#8221; Could Actually be Small \u2013 via&nbsp;OrlandoSentinel.com &#8220;Satellites the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}