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Members of the Joint Functional Component Command for Space at Vandenberg AFB are continuing to support relief efforts in Haiti by providing space effects, such as satellite communications and position timing and navigation services.
Read MoreAt 12:35 p.m. local time on February 11, 2010, Soufriere Hills Volcano on the Caribbean island of Montserrat experienced a partial dome collapse.
Read MorePolarSat Inc. has successfully completed system acceptance testing and 6 months of live operation of a disaster relief VSATPlus 3 VSAT network.?
Read MoreTrans Capital Air, a Canadian charter operator contracted by the United Nations (UN) for humanitarian relief efforts, learned only hours after the earthquake that it needed to deploy an aircraft to Haiti as soon as possible.
Read MoreCyclone Oli was a Category 4 storm on February 4, 2010, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this true-color image.
Read MoreImmediately following the terrible tragedy that struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the surrounding countryside in January, Akron’s VSAT Systems, which has satellite broadband Internet customers across Haiti and the Dominican Republic, began receiving requests from both sides of the border, as customers found themselves at the center of disaster response and human relief.
Read MoreMacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a provider of information solutions, has provided imagery acquired by the RADARSAT-2 satellite over Haiti in support of disaster recovery and reconstruction efforts by the Canadian Government and relief agencies through the Canadian Space Agency’s participation in the International Charter “Space and Major Disasters”.
Read MoreCapRock Government Solutions has been awarded a contract with the United States Navy’s Naval Beach Group (NBG) to provide emergency satellite communications services as part of U.S. military relief efforts in Haiti.
Read MoreSat News has been the receipiant of information regarding companies and organizations assisting with the daunting rescue efforts in Haiti after the catastrophic earthquake.
Read MoreOn January 2nd, Mount Nyamulagira in the Democratic Republic of Congo erupted, spewing lava from its southern flank and raising concerns that the 100,000 people in the town of Sake could be under threat.
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