Sadly, the "buy from FM" feature quickly reminded us why we can't stand music radio, and while we could easily get the meta data for the station we tuned to, specific (or sufficient) song data was more rare -- on our fourth or fifth try we finally nabbed Rod Stewart's Maggie May, and the actual download process was painless.
Nasa normally speaks and sends data to the station from Houston, via three communications satellites.
BBC: Nasa back in contact with the International Space Station
Even though virtually all raw station data is now out there, this may not be the final chapter.
The weather station data is available on the Met Office website.
The authors say they are confident that the data from Byrd Station is representative of the region because the scientific outpost sits on a plateau and conditions are essentially uniform for a considerable distance.
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The release marks the latest chapter in a story that has run for several years, with critics of climate science trying to force institutions to release raw weather station data rather than figures that have been processed and analysed.
This is being prepared with data from every rainfall station across the country, together with readings from the UK's 1300 river gauges, plus information about soil moisture.
It also uses geolocation data to determine which gas station you just visited to fill up and will automatically calculate how much you paid based on a database of stations.
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It communicates with a base station over a data communication link based on the DECT (digital enhanced cordless telecommunications) standard, the same technology used by many of today's cordless home and office phones.
All its computers now include a built-in antenna which, in conjunction with a networking card, can exchange data with a small base station plugged into a broadband Internet connection up to 45 metres (150 feet) away.
South Korea says the satellite launched on Wednesday has made contact with a ground station and is sending data.
The data eventually move to a base station 12.5cm tall, from where the info is sent to a PC or onto a wireless network.
The data eventually move to a base station 5 inches tall, from where the info is sent to a PC or onto a wireless network.
It then combines this real-time information with ephemeris data, mapping, cellular base station and Wi-Fi access point database information, and other cloud-based aiding information using the SiRFusion platform.
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The Urban Weather Station records and wirelessly transmits data to the Netatmo App.
From the data gathered by Curiosity's meteorological station, scientists think dust-devils may even have run over the mobile laboratory.
Using the power and data transmission capabilities of the International Space Station, AMS is circling Earth and sifting through matter, antimatter and other particles that are yet to be confirmed, 365 days a year.
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In July 2011, AMS operations moved back to CERN, where the AMS team continues monitoring and controlling the experiment 24 hours a day, with the capability to gather data for as long as the space station is in orbit.
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In its first six months of operation on the station, AMS had accumulated more data on charged cosmic rays than had been previously collected in the history of human physics studies.
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Electronic books are capable of holding thousands of pages of information and can download data from the Internet or through a docking station, similar to the process involved in 3Com Corp.
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For each sensor at the station site, 1-minute data samples shall be transmitted in CREX format via the public geostationary meteorological satellites (METEOSAT or GOES) every 5 minutes and every five minutes via the redundant transmission option.
Lead scientist at Berkeley Earth, Robert Rohde said that the study was the first to address issues concerning data bias and used nearly all available data, which amounted to five times more station locations (39, 000 compared to 7, 280) than reviewed by prior groups.
The primary computer that controls critical station functions defaulted to a backup computer, but it was not letting the station communicate with Nasa's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, the US space agency said.
BBC: Nasa back in contact with the International Space Station
The programme is, in a way, building a railway, with a station in every village for delivering treatment and picking up data.
The report indicates that bandwidth requirements of network-aggregation nodes are growing at an even faster rate than end-station applications, which initiate the transmission and receipt of data.
Virgin says an hour's listening to the station via mobile would involve about 7.2MB of data, which could prove expensive for people using pay as you download GPRS or 3G services.
Precise, high-quality images and data can be sent back in under 30 minutes to a mobile ground station which can then disseminate images online.
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UrtheCast will supply video data and imagery of Earth collected by two HD cameras on the Russian module of the Space Station.
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Arraycomm has developed a technology called i-Burst that it says can deliver a sustained data speed of one megabit per second over distances as far as five miles from the base station, during testing in Sydney, Australia.
The RHIC data here will assist the mission of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, which will be delivered to the International Space Station on Friday.
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