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Landsat Data Continuity Mission Awaits Liftoff
Feb 11, 2013 (SPX)
When the newest Landsat spacecraft trains its state-of-the-art sensors on Earth's surface, it will provide images of our ever-changing planet in unparalleled cl...
Ball Supplies Advanced Imaging Instrument For Landsat 8
Feb 11, 2013 (SPX)
The Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., Operational Land Imager (OLI) successfully launched aboard the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) from Vandenberg...
LDCM 'Doing Great' in Orbit
Feb 11, 2013 (SPX)
The Landsat Data Continuity Mission spacecraft is safely in orbit and sending telemetry back to Earth after a 1:02 p.m. EST liftoff aboard a United Launch Allia...
Avoiding a cartography catastrophe
Feb 07, 2013 (SPX)
Since the mid-nineteenth century, maps have helped elucidate the deadly mysteries of diseases like cholera and yellow fever. Yet today's global mapping of infec...
DigitalGlobe and GeoEye Complete Combination
Feb 06, 2013 (SPX)
DigitalGlobe and GeoEye have completed their merger, creating a global leader in earth imagery and geospatial analysis. The combined company will trade on the N...
Trio of European satellites positioned to study Earth's magnetic field
Feb 06, 2013 (UPI)
Ground controllers say they're maneuvering a trio of European satellites into precise orbits to start delivering the best-ever survey of Earth's magnetic field....
US Army SMDC Funds Andrews Space To Build Kestrel Eye 2 Earth Imaging Nanosat
Feb 05, 2013 (SPX)
Andrews Space (Andrews) has announced that they have been funded by the US Army Space and Missile Defense Command to design and deliver a Kestrel Eye Block 2 Ea...
NASA to Launch Ocean Wind Monitor to ISS
Feb 05, 2013 (JPL)
In a clever reuse of hardware originally built to test parts of NASA's QuikScat satellite, the agency will launch the ISS-RapidScat instrument to the Internatio...
New tools enable high-res observations from anywhere with internet access
Jan 31, 2013 (SPX)
A paper published in the February issue of Computers and Geosciences, describes a case study in which an earth-observing satellite tool, the Tool for High-Resol...
Google Maps makes Grand Canyon virtual trek
Jan 31, 2013 (AFP)
Google Maps opened a virtual path to the wonders of the Grand Canyon on Thursday by adding panoramic images gathered by hikers with Android-powered camera syste...
Internet age navigation drives economies: studies
Jan 30, 2013 (AFP)
Fresh from unveiling detailed online maps of North Korea, Google on Wednesday touted studies showing that Internet Age navigation tools boost the economic engin...
Remote Sensing Solution Takes Wing Aboard Ultralight Aircraft
Jan 30, 2013 (SPX)
Using the Headwall Photonics Micro-Hyperspec VNIR sensor, Headwall's integration partner Alava Ingenieros (Madrid, Spain) will provide the worldwide scientific ...
RapidEye Commits to Data Continuity; Discusses System Health and Life Span
Jan 22, 2013 (SPX)
RapidEye has announced a positive update on the health and lifespan of its satellites. In addition, Michael Oxfort has been appointed to lead the development of...
Landsat Senses a Disturbance in the Forest
Jan 20, 2013 (SPX)
A new way of studying and visualizing Earth science data from a NASA and U.S. Geological Survey satellite program is resulting in, for the first time, the abili...
NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph Mission Satellite Completed
Jan 20, 2013 (SPX)
The spacecraft and science instrument integration for the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) - NASA's next Small Explorer (SMEX) Mission - has been co...
Pleiades 1B captures its first images using e2v sensors
Jan 18, 2013 (SPX)
Pleiades 1B, the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Earth observation satellite, has captured its first images using e2v high performance imaging sensors...
Raytheon's Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite on the Suomi NPP satellite lauded for truly new weather data
Jan 16, 2013 (SPX)
Raytheon's Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite was the focus of a high-profile panel discussion at this week's annual meeting of the American Meteorologica...
Testing time for Proba-V, ESA's global vegetation tracker
Jan 16, 2013 (ESA)
ESA's Proba-V microsatellite is now assembled and midway through testing to ensure it is fully spaceworthy. The miniature Earth-observer, designed to chart glob...
NASA Prepares for Launch of Next Earth Observation Satellite
Jan 16, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) is scheduled to launch Feb. 11 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. A joint NASA and U.S. Geological Surv...
MDA awarded contract to build three radar satellites
Jan 15, 2013 (SPX)
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, a provider of essential information solutions, has announced the signing of a $706 million contract with the Canadian Space...
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