Two Successful Years, And Counting, For TerraSAR-X
TerraSAR-X is the first German satellite to have been built in the context of a Public Private Partnership (PPP) between DLR and EADS Astrium GmbH.
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Here’s Looking @ Earth: Watching The Wind For More Than 10 Years — QuikScat
NASA's Quick Scatterometer, or QuikScat, mission was conceived, developed, and launched less than two years after the unexpected loss of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Advanced Earth Observing Satellite-1 spacecraft, which carried the NASA Scatterometer in June 1997.
Read MoreITT Receives Study Awards From NOAA For Geosynchronous Sound and Ocean Color
ITT [NYSE:ITT] has won two study contracts to address detailed costing of commercial options for operational weather systems.
Read MoreITT Sees Great Program Possibilities With CO2 — So Does NASA — Also, NOAA Gets ITT Help
ITT Corporation (NYSE:ITT) has been selected by NASA to help design, develop, and test a set of instruments to measure carbon dioxide (CO2) from air and space in support of NASA's Active Sensing of CO2 Emissions over Nights, Days and Season (ASCENDS) mission, which is expected to launch in 2015.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth: Embers + Ash Of The Sarychev Peak Kind Are Quick To Travel
At the northwestern end of Ostrov Matua (Matua Island), Sarychev Peak ranks among the most active volcanoes in the Kuril (or Kurile) Islands, which stretch between Hokkaido, Japan, and Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.
Read MoreHere’s Looking @ Earth: Darwin + Bonaparte Slept Here
Saint Helena Island, located in the South Atlantic Ocean approximately 1,860 kilometers (1,156 miles) west of Africa, was one of the many isolated islands that naturalist Charles Darwin visited during his scientific voyages in the nineteenth century.
Read MoreDon’t Ever Poo-Poo Satellite Imagery Usefulness
Penguin poo (guano) stains, visible from space, have helped British scientists locate emperor penguin breeding colonies in Antarctica.
Read MoreGeospatial Engine Enjoys Award
PCI Geomatics has won the Geospatial Innovator Award from GeoTec Media for its ProLines GeoImaging Server, as announced at the GeoTec Event in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Read MoreForestry Forecasts To Be Aided By DMCii’s Sats
DMC International Imaging Ltd (DMCii) has won a 100,000 euros contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to demonstrate the value of its coordinated multi-satellite optical imagery for tropical forest monitoring in Indonesia.
Read More$736 Million Contract GOES-R to Harris Corp.
Harris Corporation [NYSE: HRS], has been awarded a 10-year, potential $736 million contract to provide a complete, end-to-end solution for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite — Series R Ground Segment (GOES-R GS) program.
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