satellites
Vehicles
1:30PM Rosa Golijan | The GeoEye-1 satellite snapped a picture of the Dubai Airshow and we can see all the pilots’ pretty planes, lined up and waiting to zip-zip-zoom through the sky. Anyone wanna play Guess the Aircraft? [PopSci]
Bird’s Eye View Of Some Fast Birds
1:30PM Rosa Golijan | The GeoEye-1 satellite snapped a picture of the Dubai Airshow and we can see all the pilots’ pretty planes, lined up and waiting to zip-zip-zoom through the sky. Anyone wanna play Guess the Aircraft? [PopSci] 
Science
7:20AM Adam Frucci | Here are two galleries for you, both taken from space. One is of islands here on Earth, the other of landscapes on Mars. It’s amazing, the similarities between the two places when you look from a certain distance. More »
We’re Not So Different, Earth And Mars
7:20AM Adam Frucci | Here are two galleries for you, both taken from space. One is of islands here on Earth, the other of landscapes on Mars. It’s amazing, the similarities between the two places when you look from a certain distance. More »
Science
NASA Moon Bombing Mission May Have Worked Out After All
5:00AM Jack Loftus | So that anticlimactic moon bombing NASA attempted the other day may have kicked up a little dust after all. More »
Entertainment
10:24AM Nick Broughall | Last month, Foxtel announced that they were launching 30 new channels on the back of the Optus D3 satellite. What they didn’t mention was price. Now they have, and if you were crossing your fingers that they were going to just give you those bonus channels for free, you’re going to be a bit disappointed. Although it’s not all bad… More »
You Didn’t Think Those New Foxtel Channels Would Be Free, Did You?
10:24AM Nick Broughall | Last month, Foxtel announced that they were launching 30 new channels on the back of the Optus D3 satellite. What they didn’t mention was price. Now they have, and if you were crossing your fingers that they were going to just give you those bonus channels for free, you’re going to be a bit disappointed. Although it’s not all bad… More »
Science
Launch Your Own Satellite Into Orbit For Only $US8000
10:00AM Adam Frucci | Looking to start your own satellite TV station? Perhaps you want to take your stalking of your ex to the next level. Well, if you have $US8000, Interorbital Systems can help make that happen. More »
Science
LA Smouldering From Space
1:40AM Matt Buchanan | The LA fires have actually exploded to double the 245 kilometres they cover in this photo taken Sunday morning by NASA’s Terra satellite. I imagine this is sort of what LA will look like from space mid-apocalypse. [NASA via BoingBoing]
Science
10:27AM Nick Broughall | That Optus D3 satellite launched without a hitch over the weekend. Fingers are crossed everywhere (at Giz HQ, at least) that it won’t be too long before we get bonus Foxtel channels.
[Img: Optus]
Optus D3 Satellite Is In Orbit
10:27AM Nick Broughall | That Optus D3 satellite launched without a hitch over the weekend. Fingers are crossed everywhere (at Giz HQ, at least) that it won’t be too long before we get bonus Foxtel channels.
[Img: Optus]
Online
Fastest Data Connection In Space Comes From The Moon
8:40AM Jesus Diaz | Right now, data is arriving across 384,300 kilometres at 100MBps (as in megabytes per second, not megabits), dwarfing every home internet connections out there. That’s a total of 461GB of data transmitted per day, thanks to this moon-orbiting device. More »
Entertainment
11:30AM Nick Broughall | So when that Optus D3 Satellite goes up this month, Foxtel will get a chunk of the extra bandwidth to launch some new channels. How many channels you ask? 30 new channels, according to the Courier Mail. More »
Foxtel Launching 30 New Channels This Year
11:30AM Nick Broughall | So when that Optus D3 Satellite goes up this month, Foxtel will get a chunk of the extra bandwidth to launch some new channels. How many channels you ask? 30 new channels, according to the Courier Mail. More »
Networks
12:30PM Nick Broughall | Optus this morning confirmed that their D3 satellite, which will give Foxtel subscribers a heap of new HD channels (among other things) is set to launch on August 22 between 8:09 and 9:09 am Sydney time. It’ll be launching from French Guiana, which is where they launched both the D1 and D2 satellites. [Optus]
10 Days Until Optus D3 Satellite Launches
12:30PM Nick Broughall | Optus this morning confirmed that their D3 satellite, which will give Foxtel subscribers a heap of new HD channels (among other things) is set to launch on August 22 between 8:09 and 9:09 am Sydney time. It’ll be launching from French Guiana, which is where they launched both the D1 and D2 satellites. [Optus] 
