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Risat-1 catapults India into a select group of nations
Apr 27, 2012 (IANS)
On an early on Thursday morning, an Indian rocket successfully launched into orbit a microwave Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1) from the spaceport here in Andh...
Latest CryoSat result revealed
Apr 26, 2012 (ESA)
After nearly a year and a half of operations, CryoSat has yielded its first seasonal variation map of Arctic sea-ice thickness. Results from ESA's ice mission w...
Google blasts FCC handling of 'Street View' probe
Apr 26, 2012 (AFP)
Google on Thursday blamed Federal Communications Commission for dragging out an investigation into Google's "Street View" online mapping service gathering data ...
DigitalGlobe Unveils New Details of WorldView-3 Satellite
Apr 24, 2012 (SPX)
DigitalGlobe has unveiled unique capabilities of its WorldView-3 satellite, slated for launch in mid-2014. The announcement was made at the 28th Annual National...
CarbonSat - On the trail of greenhouse gases
Apr 24, 2012 (SPX)
Astrium, Europe's leading space company, will be pushing ahead with the preparation of CarbonSat, a new climate satellite for the European Space Agency (ESA), o...
Investigation on Envisat continues
Apr 23, 2012 (ESA)
Optical, radar and laser observations of the Envisat satellite show that it is still in a stable orbit. Efforts to regain contact with the satellite have been u...
Boeing Releases DataMaster 5.1 Geospatial Data Management Tool
Apr 23, 2012 (SPX)
Boeing has announced the release of DataMaster 5.1, an advanced version of its geospatial data tool that offers defense and Intelligence Community customers imp...
Lockheed Martin Completes Key Milestone on GeoEye's New Commercial Earth-Imaging Satellite
Apr 20, 2012 (SPX)
The Lockheed Martin team developing GeoEye's next-generation Earth-imaging satellite successfully initiated power-on testing for the GeoEye-2 spacecraft bus. Th...
NASA Satellite Movie Shows Great Plains Tornado Outbreak from Space
Apr 19, 2012 (SPX)
Satellite data gives forecasters a leg up on severe weather. NASA has just released an animation of visible and infrared satellite data showing the development ...
FCC drops Google 'Street View' investigation
Apr 15, 2012 (AFP)
US government telecom regulators have ended an investigation into Google's "Street View" online mapping service gathering data from private wireless hotspots. T...
Envisat services interrupted
Apr 13, 2012 (ESA)
After 10 years of service, Envisat has stopped sending data to Earth. ESA's mission control is working to re-establish contact with the satellite. Although this...
Biggest environment satellite goes silent
Apr 12, 2012 (AFP)
The European Space Agency said Thursday it had lost contact with Envisat, the biggest Earth-monitoring satellite in history. Designed to operate for only five y...
NASA Views Our Perpetual Ocean
Apr 11, 2012 (SPX)
The swirling flows of tens of thousands of ocean currents were captured in this scientific visualization created by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenb...
NASA Sees New Salt in an Ancient Sea
Apr 11, 2012 (SPX)
The expansion of massive salt evaporation projects on the Dead Sea are clearly visible in this time series of images taken by Landsat satellites operated by NAS...
ITT Exelis delivers imaging system for next-generation, high-resolution GeoEye-2 satellite
Apr 11, 2012 (SPX)
ITT Exelis Geospatial Systems has delivered GeoEye's next-generation commercial imaging system for the GeoEye-2 satellite to Lockheed Martin Space Systems Compa...
ONR Grant Expands Research of Typhoons, Monsoons, Internal Waves in Asia-Pacific
Apr 09, 2012 (SPX)
The University of Miami (UM) announced that it has received a grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research to expand its use of SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) i...
China makes public satellite data products
Apr 09, 2012 (XNA)
The State Oceanic Administration (SOA) on Friday gave the public access to data products of the oceanic surveying satellite Haiyang-2, which monitors maritime e...
ESA and NASA join forces to measure Arctic sea ice
Apr 05, 2012 (ESA)
Marking another remarkable collaborative effort, ESA and NASA met up over the Arctic Ocean this week to perform some carefully coordinated flights directly unde...
Key ice shelf in Antarctica has shrunk by 85 percent
Apr 05, 2012 (AFP)
A vast ice shelf in the Antarctic peninsula, a hotspot for global warming, has shrunk by 85 percent in 17 years, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursda...
Checking CryoSat reveals rising Antarctic blue ice
Mar 30, 2012 (ESA)
Field measurements in the spectacular blue ice region of Antarctica not only provide confidence in the accuracy of ESA's CryoSat mission, but have also shown th...
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