Satellite Industry Intelligence Since 1983
NASA and Japan have released a new digital topographic map of Earth that covers more of our planet than ever before — the map was produced with detailed measurements from NASA's Terra spacecraft.
Read MoreNearly 200 scientists from Europe and China have gathered in Barcelona this week to report on the progress of ongoing Dragon 2 research projects using data from ESA and Chinese Earth observation satellites.
Read MoreSaharan sand blew off the coasts of Mauritania and Senegal on June 22, 2009.
Read MoreAustralia’s Lake Eyre drainage basin sprawls across about 1.2 million square kilometers, stretching from Northern Territory to South Australia.
Read MoreTerraSAR-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.
Read MoreNASA'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 [NYSE:ITT] has won two study contracts to address detailed costing of commercial options for operational weather systems.
Read MoreITT 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 MoreAt 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 MoreSaint 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 More
Satnews is a leading provider of satellite news, events, publications, research and other satellite industry information in both commercial and military enterprises worldwide.