It’s An Image Thing For Vietnam’s Next Satellite
Vietnam plans to launch its first remote sensing satellite by 2012, VNREDSAT-1, the Vietnam News Agency reported last Friday.
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China’s New Remote Sensing Sat Launched
China has launched a new remote sensing satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, the fifth satellite in the YaoGan series and developed by the China Academy of Space Technology, was launched by a CZ-4B Chang Zheng-4B rocket at 03:22 UTC yesterday morning.
Read MoreBlooms Of The Watery Kind Noted By NASA’s Aqua Satellite
During the Northern Hemisphere winter, monsoon winds over southern Asia and Australia stir the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin, off mainland China’s southeastern coast.
Read MoreKamchatka Volcano Visual, Courtesy Of NASA’s Terra
At the northwestern margin of the Pacific Ocean, the tectonic plate underlying the ocean is slowly grinding beneath the leading edge of the tectonic plate bearing the Asian continent.
Read MoreTerra Sat Records Indonesian Mud Flow History
On May 29, 2006, a scalding mud volcano began erupting in a densely populated area in eastern Java, Indonesia.
Read MoreEgypt Wishes To Apply Remote Sensing Sats To Antiquities Search
According to the official MENA News Agency, satellites and remote sensing technology are going to assist Egypt in the discovery and recovery of antiquities.
Read MoreA Summer Crack-up In The Antarctic Captured By ESA
In late February 2008, a large part of the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula disintegrated.
Read MoreTandem Team-Up By ESA
Based on the outstanding success of the first tandem mission between ERS-2 and Envisat last year, ESA has paired the two satellites together again to help improve understanding of our planet.
Read MoreNOAA Floats Plans for Conference
Coming to Miami, Florida, December 8-12 to meet with top NOAA officials to learn more about new equipment and software that will be needed to retrieve data from the next generation of NOAA satellites are weather and climate forecasters, emergency managers and other users of NOAA satellite information.
Read MoreDAICHI Sat Brings JAXA + UNESCO Together For MOU
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) concluded a Memorandum of Unity (MOU) for cooperating in monitoring World Heritage Sites using the Advanced Land Observing Satellite "DAICHI" (ALOS) to watch and protect the common legacy of all mankind.
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