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Satellites on the blink
How does GPS work?
How does technology know where in the world we are?
How do solar cells work?
All about... SETI
Under Sunveillance
How do mobile phones work?
Wear your heart on your sleeve
All about... Quantum Computing
Nobel-prize winning accidents
Why is Pluto no longer considered a planet?
Sci-Art: The final frontier
A brief history of space
Third from the Sun: Geographical features as seen from space
The use of satellites to give information about our planet. The history of gathering information and how satellites have increased our ability to do this.
The Altimetry Atlas
This site makes available mean sea surface and gravity anomaly maps of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, computed from satellite altimeter data gathered by satellite.
How Satellites Work
A brief description of how Satellites work. Part of Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks.com.
BT Connected Earth
An online museum about our ongoing quest to communicate better, from the first simple messages to today's sophisticated global communications.
How Digital Radio Works
Satellite radio is poised to change the way we listen to music. Find out how digital radio gets from Earth to satellite to you!. From HowStuffWorks.com.
COBE Satellite
NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer satellite was launched to explore the cosmic microwave background radiation. It has discovered fluctuations in that radiation which are important to big bang ...
The Future of Cars
A series of articles on future car technology from Arstechnica, covering in car computing, dealing with traffic jams and wireless communication.
Infrared
Inofrmation on infrared (IR), a broad range of frequencies, beginning at the top end of those frequencies used for communication and extending up the the low frequency (red) end of the visible ...