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e2v and Astrium sign contract for imaging sensors to equip the Sentinel 4 satellite
Jul 17, 2013 (SPX)
e2v has signed a contract worth 2.8M euro with Astrium, Europe's leading space technology company. e2v will supply imaging sensors to equip the European Space A...
GOES-R Improvements to Provide Stunning, Continuous Full-Disk Imagery
Jul 16, 2013 (SPX)
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's next generation of GOES satellites, beginning with GOES-R, will have the ability to take full-disk images ...
Space Station Ocean Imager Available to More Scientists
Jul 16, 2013 (SPX)
The International Space Station is expanding the use of its Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean (HICO) instrument to more Earth scientists and environmen...
The Color of the Ocean: the SABIA-Mar Mission
Jul 16, 2013 (SPX)
Remote sensing of ocean color is a currently well-established science that provides information about water composition and the depth of light penetration based...
Nature valued from space
Jul 16, 2013 (ESA)
Satellites show how we can promote economic development in an environmentally sustainable manner by putting a price on nature's resources. Located on the Indone...
Research reveals Earth's core affects length of day
Jul 12, 2013 (SPX)
Research at the University of Liverpool has found that variations in the length of day over periods of between one and 10 years are caused by processes in the E...
Google ditches location-sharing feature in map apps
Jul 10, 2013 (AFP)
Google on Wednesday released an upgraded version of its popular maps app for Android-powered smartphones and tablets that ditches a Latitude feature that let pe...
Google updates Map app with new traffic, exploration functions
Jul 10, 2013 (UPI)
U.S. search giant Google says an update to its Maps app will help users bypass traffic jams, quickly rerouting navigation directions to a quicker route. An upda...
Long-lived oceanography satellite decommissioned after equipment fails
Jul 03, 2013 (UPI)
A U.S.-French satellite doing oceanography surveys for 11 1/2 years has been decommissioned following the loss of its last remaining transmitter, NASA says. The...
Images From New Space Station Camera Help U.S. Neighbor to the North
Jul 03, 2013 (SPX)
Water. It's vital to our lives. It keeps us hydrated and clean, is essential for food production and is even the focal point during a relaxing vacation at the b...
Astrium's Cloud Services will support Western Australia Lands Department
Jul 02, 2013 (SPX)
Landgate (Western Australia's Land Information Authority) has contracted through Geospatial Intelligence Pty Ltd, an Astrium Services' reseller, the SPOTMaps co...
Five Years of Stereo Imaging for NASA's TWINS
Jun 25, 2013 (SPX)
Surrounding Earth is a dynamic region called the magnetosphere. The region is governed by magnetic and electric forces, incoming energy and material from the su...
European Space Agency says magnetic north is drifting southward
Jun 23, 2013 (UPI)
The Earth's magnetic north pole is drifting southward towards Siberia, according to researchers at the European Space Agency (ESA). As part of ESA's Swarm missi...
Vegetation as Seen by Suomi NPP
Jun 21, 2013 (SPX)
Images crafted from a year's worth of data collected by the Suomi NPP satellite provide a vivid depiction of worldwide vegetation. Suomi NPP, short for National...
How did a third radiation belt appear in the Earth's upper atmosphere
Jun 21, 2013 (SPX)
Since the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts in in the Earth's upper atmosphere in 1958, space scientists have believed that these belts consisted of tw...
Cassini Probe to Take Photo of Earth From Deep Space
Jun 19, 2013 (JPL)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now exploring Saturn, will take a picture of our home planet from a distance of hundreds of millions of miles on July 19. NASA is inv...
Arianespace to launch Gokturk-1 high-resolution observation satellite
Jun 19, 2013 (SPX)
Arianespace has announced a launch contract with Telespazio to launch the Gokturk-1 satellite for the Turkish government. Stephane Israel, Chairman and CEO of A...
A helping hand from above for The Gambia
Jun 19, 2013 (ESA)
Satellites are being used to promote agriculture in one of the world's poorest countries. Named after the river that traverses the country from east to west, Th...
Lost medieval city found in Cambodia: report
Jun 15, 2013 (AFP)
A lost medieval city that thrived on a mist-shrouded Cambodian mountain 1,200 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists using revolutionary airborne laser...
Landsat Satellite Looks Back at El Paso, Forward to a New Mission
Jun 14, 2013 (SPX)
Landsat has seen a lot in its day. In one spot of desert, where the Rio Grande marks the border between the United States and Mexico, the satellite program capt...
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