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Landsat Proved the Power of Remote Sensing

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Toward the end, though, the speech took a curious and hopeful turn, as Nixon rhapsodized about the unifying potential of international cooperation in space exploration. The two nations also cooperated on applying remote sensing to geology and hydrology in the hopes of allaying international concerns over American espionage.

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Opinion: Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

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along with Canada, as powerful crude, NGL, and natural gas producers is also a major concern for the Russian economy. It would also force foreign suppliers to seek other markets for all or part of the exports they previously sent to the U.S. Death by Energy. The emergence of the U.S., This has transformed the U.S. Wary of U.S.

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This Lockheed Martin Researcher’s Work on UAVs Saves Lives

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Marine Corps used the autonomous K-Max helicopters for resupply missions in Afghanistan. As part of the job, in Oghara, Nigeria, then a small fishing village along the Niger River, he collected fares and directed passengers on and off the bus. With no traffic cops or traffic lights, there often was chaos at major intersections.

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Will Human Soldiers Ever Trust Their Robot Comrades?

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They were paying their final respects to Boomer, a fallen comrade who had been an indispensable part of their team for years. A Navy unit used a remote-controlled vehicle with a mounted video camera in 2009 to investigate suspicious areas in southern Afghanistan. Just days earlier, he had been blown apart by a roadside bomb.

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

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This war is a war of drones, they are the super weapon here,” Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs, told Newsweek earlier this year. But for the most part, the price is right: China’s DJI Mavic 3 , used by both Russia and Ukraine for surveillance and for delivering bombs, goes for around $2,000.

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