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Astrix fiber optic gyro to fly on NASA CNES mission
Apr 19, 2016 (SPX)
Airbus Defence and Space will supply its highest-precision Fiber Optic Gyro Unit (FOG) for a mission led by the American, French, Canadian, and United Kingdom S...
Study shows cloud patterns reveal species habitat
Apr 18, 2016 (SPX)
Much of Earth's biodiversity is concentrated in areas where not enough is known about species habitats and their wider distributions, making management and cons...
Sentinel-1B will complete European Radar Vision initiative
Apr 18, 2016 (SPX)
Pre-launch preparations for the Sentinel-1B satellite, carrying an Airbus Defence and Space built radar instrument, are in full swing at Europe's Kourou Spacepo...
CNES selects Airbus DS to build MicroCarb payload to map CO2 levels
Apr 18, 2016 (SPX)
CNES, the French Space Agency, has awarded Airbus Defence and Space, the world's second largest space company, a contract to design and build the optical instru...
Coming soon to an orbit near you: GOES-R
Apr 14, 2016 (SPX)
The GOES-R satellite is set to launch six months from now, on October 13, 2016. GOES-R, or GOES-16 as it will be known once operational, will launch on board an...
Mapping software tracks threats to endangered species
Apr 14, 2016 (SPX)
Habitat mapping software and satellite imagery can help conservationists predict the movements of endangered species in remote or inaccessible regions and pinpo...
Flexible camera offers radically different approach to imaging
Apr 14, 2016 (SPX)
A team led by Shree K. Nayar, T.C. Chang Professor of Computer Science at Columbia Engineering, has developed a novel sheet camera that can be wrapped around ev...
Twiss interferometry offers new approach for remote sensing
Apr 12, 2016 (SPX)
A team from the University of Rochester has shown that fluctuations in "twisted light" could be exploited for a range of applications, from detecting rotating b...
UAE monitors Dubai coastline changeds since 2009
Apr 07, 2016 (SPX)
The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) has announced the results of conducting an analytical study to monitor the changes on Dubai coastlines during varyi...
Sentinel-3A feels the heat
Apr 07, 2016 (ESA)
Despite only being in orbit a matter of weeks, Sentinel-3A has already delivered some impressive first images. With the thermal-infrared channels now turned on,...
NASA, Japan make ASTER earth data available at no cost
Apr 05, 2016 (JPL)
Beginning this week, all Earth imagery from a prolific Japanese remote sensing instrument operating aboard NASA's Terra spacecraft since late 1999 is now availa...
Thales, Airbus DS tapped for French military maps
Apr 05, 2016 (UPI)
A consortium of Thales and Airbus Defense and Space is to supply digital geographic data on a range of scales to the French Ministry of Defense. The data for th...
Satellites key to monitoring harmful emissions: space agencies
Apr 03, 2016 (AFP)
Satellite technology plays a crucial role in measuring greenhouse gas emissions globally, the heads of several space agencies agreed Sunday as they vowed to wor...
Tracking deer by NASA satellite
Apr 01, 2016 (SPX)
Mule deer mothers are in sync with their environment, with reproduction patterns that closely match the cycles of plant growth in their habitat. And new researc...
Unravelling a geological mystery using lasers from space
Mar 30, 2016 (SPX)
It's a mystery that has stumped geologists for more than a century. Now, thanks to new technology - including satellite laser imagery - researchers may be one s...
Fairy circles discovered in Australia by researchers
Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany are unraveling the mystery beh...
NASA Airborne Mission Looks At Fires and Cooling Atlantic Clouds Decks
Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)
A new NASA airborne field experiment planned for this summer will make key airborne measurements of clouds and smoke particles over the southeastern Atlantic Oc...
Research on near-earth space to start with first launch from Vostochny
Mar 25, 2016 (Sputnik)
Aist 2D will become the first satellite to reach orbit from the Vostochny Space Launch Center, jump starting a series of research projects on near-Earth space a...
NASA Gets Down to Earth with Globe-Spanning Campaigns
Mar 25, 2016 (JPL)
NASA is sending scientists around the world in 2016 - from the edge of the Greenland ice sheet to the coral reefs of the South Pacific - to delve into challengi...
Astrosat shows RAPID advances in the jungles of Malaysia
Mar 23, 2016 (SPX)
Scottish space science and management company Astrosat has been invited to demonstrate the effectiveness of its revolutionary Recovery and Protection in Disaste...
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