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Sky News Australia launched its 24hours news service, as the first Australian produced news channel in February 1996 (skynews.com). Owned by NewsCorp and ultimately Rupert Murdoch, the 24hr multi-channel, multi-platform news service delivers its content over a variety of mediums along with its television coverage. Sky News Australia currently runs ‘SkyNews.com.au, mobile, podcasts, and Facebook and Twitter and is also the news provider for Qantas in-flight and at train station platforms nationally’ (skynews.com/about). The SkyNews.com.au website has both strengths and weaknesses in how it present news. This piece will analyse both aspects and the overall presentation of Sky’s digital presence. The Sky News website consists of a heavily visual…

Kennedy took over the presidential reins from a harrowed Eisenhower in the late 1960. Continuing a chronological analysis from the perspective of the Cold War conflict, Kennedy found himself faced with seemingly insurmountable circumstances: America was in the process of a deep cultural recession and needed a solution, needed a way out. Kennedy’s answer was delivered in his famous speech in May of 1961: Surpass Russia entirely by the end of the decade, landing a man on the moon and bringing him…

On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first ever satellite into space called Sputnik 1. One month later on November 3, 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik II while also carrying a dog named Laika which was also the first animal to go up in space. At this point into the space race the Soviet Union were way ahead of the United States. Which also brought more competition and tension into the space race. The first man to travel to space was Yuri Gagarin. History was made on April 12,…

(1650)The Governmental Abuse of Power: The Unethical Misuse of Satellite Surveillance Technology in Enemy of the State (1998) This film study will define the unethical misuse of satellite surveillance technology by the government in Enemy of the State (1998), which is a form of governmental abuse of the privacy and legal rights of the citizen. The use of satellite technology in this film defines the power of the National Security Agency (NSA) to observe and monitor the general public as a form…

The three careers that I am choosing to investigate from my major, aerospace engineering, are: propulsion development engineer, spacecraft structures engineer, and spacecraft materials engineer. Of these three, my first pick would be propulsion development engineer, followed by spacecraft structures engineer. Propulsion development is a branch of aerospace engineering that focuses on spacecraft and aircraft propulsion systems. I chose to investigate these three careers as I feel that I would…

Landsat 7 Landsat 7 is a sun-synchronous satellite operated as a joint project between NOSA, NOAA and the US Geological Survey. It continued the US long-term earth observation Landsat program. It have been successfully launched on 15th Aprial 1999 from the Western Test Range of Vandenberg Air Force Base with the altitude of 705 km and revisit time of 16 days. The service time of Landsat 7 is 5 years from July 1999 to October 2014. The detailed characteristic of Landsat 7 as blow Figure 5…

1. Executive Summary This project describes an orbital space settlement called the ‘Interstellar Terrarium’(IST). It can house upto 50,000 people along with all the necessities. It takes the shape of a cylinder, to which support is given by a framework of strong carbon nanotubes that can bear the pressure of the walls, the atmosphere inside and the foundations for buildings, and thus prevent the walls from getting bowed outwards. The entire cylinder is divided into three concentric cylinders –…

creation of the first Earth satellite. The satellite named Sputnik I was launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957 and orbited the Earth for three months. At this moment the Soviet Union had officially started the Space Race and was currently in the lead. During this time the US citizens reacted differently. “From the 1950's, the United States and the Soviet Union attempted to surpass each other in feats of space exploration. What became known as "the space race" began with the Soviet's…

Technology and science have progressed a lot ever since the U.S. decided to launch the first Earth satellite, or Sputnik. With the help of new devices and well prepared astronomers, we have been able to expand our knowledge in regards to space, starts, planets, and other unidentifiable objects that we are still studying. Yet, even with all the information that we have, we are not yet completely knowledgeable of what other things exist out there in space because there is another world out there…

while in orbit; unfortunately the satellite failed to ignite on its fourth stage in its launch process and never made it to orbit. During the time of Explorer 2, the Soviets were also at work with Luna 2, this probe became the first to hit the moon but after 33.5 hours into flight the signals were dead. The US then created another satellite, the fourth satellite by America, and the first satellite to be solar-powered. They created the Vanguard 1, the first part of the Vanguard Project. Although…