First Year In Space Celebration For RapidEye
RapidEye is celebrating their first year in space — one year ago this week, a Dnepr-1 rocket was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying all five of RapidEye's satellites.
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Image Building Is ITT’s Goal For Worldview-2
ITT Corporation's (NYSE: ITT) imaging system aboard DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-2 remote sensing satellite arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, in anticipation of its launch on Oct. 6.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth… Quick Update From USGS Re: Landsat 5
Yesterday we offered news that the Landsat 5 satellite had run into some difficulties and had halted imagery operations.
Read MoreLandsat 5 Stabilized But No Imagery Ops
The U.S. Geological Survey says it has stabilized its Landsat 5 satellite that tumbled out of control Aug. 13, but imaging operations have been suspended.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth… The Aral Sea — Sans Sea
Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Aral Sea was the world’s fourth-largest lake.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth… Popcorn Over The Amazon
While you may think of a rainforest as being perpetually wet and rainy, the world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon, actually has a dry season when the clouds clear and sunlight drenches the trees.
Read MoreRapidly Partnering — RapidEye Joins ESRI Biz Partners
Furthering their strength as the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate a constellation of Earth observation satellites, RapidEye announced today that they have joined the ESRI Business Partner Program.
Read MoreDEM Maps From Harris
Harris Corporation's very high-resolution, global Digital Elevation Models are, for the first time, now available to commercial users online via the MapMart(r) web portal.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth: Greecian Fires Flame Fiercely
Flames raced through the forests northeast of Athens, Greece, on August 22, 2009, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this image.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth… MODIS Marks Another California Fire
On August 12, 2009, the Lockheed Fire broke out in the mountains southwest of San Jose, California, and burned through an estimated 2,600 acres of brush and timber by the morning of August 14.
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