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White Hat Hackers Expose Iridium Satellite Security Flaws
In a recent demonstration, German white hat hackers showed how to intercept text messages sent via the U.S. satellite communication system Iridium and locate users with an accuracy of about 4 ...
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For $80, SOS Service Will Pay for Your Backcountry Rescue
The service, which coordinates and pays for emergency rescues, will work on newer model iPhone users — even without a GPS device.
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Solar flares in May 2024 revealed Earth’s vulnerability to space weather
After losing his Pacific Palisades neighborhood in the fires that swept through Los Angeles in January, Kent Tobiska, the CEO ...
NextPlat subsidiary awarded new satellite-based asset tracking services contract
NextPlat (NXPL) announced that its subsidiary, Global Telesat Communications has been awarded a new satellite-based asset tracking services ...
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More than 400 lives saved with NASA's search and rescue tech in 2024
The same search and rescue technologies developed by NASA for astronaut missions to space help locate and rescue people ...
Earth grew an extra, never-before-seen 'radiation belt' after last year's supercharged solar storm — and it's probably still there
Data collected from a once-defunct NASA satellite show that Earth grew two extra radiation belts following a supercharged ...