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How satellites are being retasked to help the Haiti rescue mission.

Posted on January 15, 2010, 8:22 am, by admin, under Internet, Space.

    I’ve taken a bit of a break from digital media blogging this week.  The jetlag from Vegas/CES and the fact the Haiti story is just so much more important than new TVs has led to me blogging about that disaster instead. One of the interesting things I’ve been reading about is the actual [...]

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Tracking the Haiti rescue flights and radio traffic online

Posted on January 14, 2010, 8:19 am, by admin, under National Security.

For those who want to get some really specific details of what is going on in Haiti, you can turn to some web interfaces to some rather old school technology. Firstly, the Military Communications Bloggers are doing an amazing job tracking all the rescue traffic on the radios going in and out of Haiti.  MilComm [...]

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