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JCSAT-13 and Vinasat-2 are the two latest telecommunications satellites around Earth, after being inserted into their planned transfer orbits earlier today. The spacecraft were delivered to space by an Arianespace-built Ariane 5 delivery system.
The rocket took off from the Kourou Spaceport, in French Guiana, South ... |
16 May 2012
04:48 GMT |
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Officials from ViviSat say that they are now ready to build and launch their Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV), a spacecraft designed specifically to rescue satellites stranded in Earth's orbit, and to provide minor repairs and adjustments to these spacecraft.
ViviSat is a joint venture between Allian Techsystem... |
15 May 2012
08:52 GMT |
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Officials from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announce the successful completion of the main science instrument that will equip the American space agency's next Earth-monitoring satellite. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) is the follow-up to a mission that was destroyed on launch a few years... |
12 May 2012
02:26 GMT |
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A little more than a month after the European Space Agency lost contact with its flagship Earth-observation satellite, Envisat, ESA officials are declaring the mission concluded. For more than a decade, this spacecraft has contributed to boosting our understanding of the world we live in.
Since April 8, when radio ... |
9 May 2012
10:35 GMT |
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Officials from the European Space Agency (ESA) have announced that the next two Galileo satellites will be launched on September 28, from the Kourou Spaceport, in French Guiana, South America. The spacecraft will be ferried to orbit aboard a Russian-built Soyuz delivery system.
Last year ESA finished constructing an... |
4 May 2012
04:57 GMT |
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Today, May 4, the NASA Aqua spacecraft and its six-instrument scientific suite are celebrating their 10th anniversary in Earth's orbit. Over the past decade, the satellite has provided experts with vast volumes of data on our planet's atmosphere, contributing to our understanding of the world as a whole.
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4 May 2012
04:33 GMT |
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Studying an atmospheric phenomenon called Schumann Resonance could reveal more data about how the solar system formed, while at the same time shedding new light on the physical properties of other worlds circling the Sun. The resonance was last year observed on other planets for the first time.
Schuman Resonance con... |
4 May 2012
03:20 GMT |
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According to a statement made by officials at the European Space Agency, mission controllers have yet to reestablish contact with the organization's flagship Earth-observing satellite, Envisat. The spacecraft unexpectedly stopped sending data to Earth on April 8.Since then, experts have been working on the prob... |
21 April 2012
05:03 GMT |
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Using high-resolution imaging capabilities aboard satellites in Earth's orbit, researchers were able to determine in a new study that Antarctica holds twice as many emperor penguins as initially thought.
The investigation was the first to demonstrate that it may be possible for biologists to conduct a census of... |
19 April 2012
08:48 GMT |
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Press reports indicate that the North Korean Unha-3 delivery system – which carried the Kwangmyongsong-3 Earth-monitoring satellite – failed to reach orbit earlier today. The vehicle and the spacecraft it carried are now believed to lie at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Despite international pressures ... |
13 April 2012
05:49 GMT |
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Experts at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that they have lost contact with Envisat, the organization's flagship Earth-monitoring spacecraft. The satellite has been orbiting our planet for more than a decade, and has produced vast amounts of scientific data thus far. ESA Mission Control is currently w... |
13 April 2012
05:07 GMT |
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Despite international protests, North Korean officials announced plans to go ahead with the launch of a new rocket to Earth's orbit, sometime between April 12-16. Many analysts fear that this is, in fact, a test of the country's long-range missiles.
The Unha-3 (Galaxy-3) delivery system will be carrying th... |
11 April 2012
07:37 GMT |
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An analysis that covered more than four decades of satellite data collected over the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) indicates that this critical portion of the Southern Continent is breaking apart at the seams, with potentially devastating consequences.
The WAIS represents a massive section of the Antarctic, and l... |
28 March 2012
10:51 GMT |
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Currently, asteroid deflection technologies are quasi-inexistent. Astronomers are painfully aware of that, so there is an ongoing effort to create some means of defending our planet, were it to come under threat. Researchers in Glasgow are now developing a technique for doing just that.
University of Strathclyde en... |
28 March 2012
04:32 GMT |
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Experts with the European Space Agency (ESA) say that satellites in Earth's orbit are beginning to notice signs indicating that the permafrost at high northern latitudes is thawing and melting. The fact that this is visible from space is very bad news.
Permafrosts, as the name suggests, are permanently frozen ... |
27 March 2012
03:59 GMT |
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A new satellite processing facility, recently opened in Littleton, Colorado, will use special 3D glasses and virtual reality technology to develop the next generation of American Global Positioning Satellites (GPS). The factory was built by Lockheed Martin, one of the primary contractors for the project.
The 50,000... |
22 March 2012
10:38 GMT |
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Using a technique called polarimetric information in Synthetic Aperture Radar (Pol-InSAR), satellites belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA) are now able to conduct a series of advanced investigations, including determining the three-dimensional structure of forests.
At the same time, the approach can be used... |
21 March 2012
05:41 GMT |
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Since launching massive surveillance and intelligence satellites is extremely expensive, the US military is currently turning to alternative options for boosting its presence on the battlefield. One of its agencies is interested in building a constellation of small, cheap and disposable spacecraft.
These assets wou... |
16 March 2012
05:23 GMT |
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The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite (NPP) has now entered active service, after spending the past few weeks undergoing various tests in space. The commissioning phase is now complete, and the most advanced, inter-agency spacecraft built thus far is ready for use. “By providing cutting-edge m... |
8 March 2012
03:09 GMT |
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According to officials at the European Space Agency (ESA), the Meteosat Second Generation-3 (MSG-3) satellite is ready for launch this summer. The spacecraft will enable the agency to continue monitoring Earth's weather patterns with extreme degrees of accuracy.
The vehicle will join two assets already in Eart... |
7 March 2012
10:53 GMT |
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With the first two Galileo In-Orbit Verification (IOV) satellites already in orbit, the European Space Agency (ESA) is currently pondering whether or not the spacecraft could also be used to manage distress calls and other types of emergency.
Galileo is being developed primarily as a satellite navigation and global ... |
7 March 2012
07:49 GMT |
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The European Space Agency's (ESA) Envisat satellite turned 10 years old in Earth's orbit yesterday, March 1. This is a joyous moment for the organization, and an important milestone for the tremendously successful, Earth-monitoring mission.
It took to the skies on March 2, 2002, at 01:07 UTC, aboard an Ari... |
2 March 2012
05:11 GMT |
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A number of Pentagon officials are very concerned about the space program China follows. The Asian nation is developing its orbital and space exploration capabilities at an incredible pace, and this is making the US military extremely uncomfortable.
Intelligence officials say that China could easily develop space-... |
29 February 2012
04:00 GMT |
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According to analysts, we may be able to keep the cloud of space junk currently clogging Earth's orbits from getting larger for at least 200 years or so. All we have to do is remove about 5 large pieces of debris every year. This objective is not too ambitious, and could be achieved with small investments.The ma... |
25 February 2012
04:46 GMT |
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Officials from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announce that the Ozone Mapper Profiler Suite (OMPS) instrument aboard the Suomi NPP satellite has been successfully turned on.
The spacecraft launched to orbit on October 28, 2011, aboard a Delta II delivery system, from the Space Launch ... |
24 February 2012
03:27 GMT |
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A constellation made up of three satellites has just passed its final tests, and is now ready for a planned July launch. The mission, called Swarm, consists of a trio of spacecraft designed specifically to study Earth's magnetic fields.
Developed by the European Space Agency (ESA), the probes will be launched ... |
18 February 2012
06:51 GMT |
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The CleanSpace One project, currently under development in Switzerland, could finally address an issue that has been growing increasingly complex over the last few years. The endeavor's goal is to create satellites that are able to clean Earth's orbits of debris. Astronomers estimate that as many as 500,00... |
16 February 2012
04:24 GMT |
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According to representatives from the US Navy, the Department of Defense and the Lockheed Martin Corporation will launch a new satellite today, from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
The spacecraft will take off at around 5:46 pm EST (2246 GMT) on February 16. It represents a part of the Mobile User Objective Sy... |
16 February 2012
03:49 GMT |
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) had to fire up the orbital outpost's thrusters on Saturday, January 28, in order to ensure that the facility is not impacted by a set of space debris. The orbital junk were produced by a Chinese military test that took place back in 2007.
The Asian nation ... |
30 January 2012
08:18 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announce that they have just changed the name of the NASA National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite to NPP Suomi, in honor of late Verner E. Suomi.
Based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the expert is ... |
26 January 2012
03:14 GMT |
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Officials with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) say that spacecraft operated by the agency were essential to the rescue of 207 people last year, throughout the United States and surrounding waters. All of these individuals were lost hikers, downed pilots, shipwrecked boaters and people ... |
24 January 2012
03:44 GMT |
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Experts with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) say that they want to create a new type of telescope technology, one that would enable them to complete Phoenix. The latter is a project that seeks to reclaim and reuse old satellite parts for creating new spacecraft.
These new vehicles would b... |
21 January 2012
05:27 GMT |
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One of the most important prototype satellites the European Space Agency ever constructed celebrated its sixth anniversary yesterday. The GIOVE-A spacecraft was launched on December 28, 2005, as a lead validation element for the upcoming Galileo satellite navigation constellation.
Even after all this time, the space... |
29 December 2011
08:37 GMT |
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For the first time ever, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) launched more rockets in a year than the United States did. The achievement was marked last Thursday, when the Asian nation successfully launched a new high-resolution mapping satellite in Earth's orbit.
This again highlights the growing a... |
27 December 2011
03:47 GMT |
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Experts controlling the European Space Agency's (ESA) CryoSat mission are getting ready to start using the satellite for marine forecasting. This is made possible by the fact that its sensitive instruments can detect even tiny variations in wave height, even though it was built to measure sea ice thickness.
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23 December 2011
04:34 GMT |
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When the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) spacecraft, experts were planning to measure those two factors primarily. However, recent datasets from the satellite indicate that it can also keep track of sea ice thickness around the poles.
The instruments aboard the vehic... |
22 December 2011
04:34 GMT |
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The second Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous (GEO-2) satellite Lockheed Martin is developing for the United States Air Force (USAF) has just completed its thermal vacuum testing. This brings the spacecraft significantly closer to launch.
GEO-2 will aid the US improve its missile defense, technical i... |
14 December 2011
09:52 GMT |
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The Jason-1 satellite has just turned 10, officials at NASA and the French Space Agency Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) announce. The mission was launched on December 7, 2001, to study our planet's oceans from space, and keep an eye on global sea level changes.
As climate change and global warm... |
8 December 2011
03:30 GMT |
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Studies conducted using satellites confirm ground-based measurements indicating that sulfur dioxide levels across the eastern seaboard of the United States are decreasing. The fact that such investigations can be conducted from space has great implications for global SO2 monitoring.
Sulfur dioxide is a dangerous po... |
2 December 2011
02:25 GMT |
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The platform for the European Space Agency's (ESA) Sentinel-2 spacecraft has just been delivered to Astrium’s facilities in Friedrichshafen, Germany, marking a significant milestone in the satellite's development.
The component was manufactured by the aeronautics company CASA in Spain, and was deliv... |
1 December 2011
07:20 GMT |
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Officials from the European Space Agency (ESA) have already made their way to South Africa, where the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties 17 (COP 17) starts today. The event will take place in Durban, between November 28 and December 9.
ESA is present at the meeting in order to stress the un... |
28 November 2011
10:52 GMT |
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A satellite communications network operated by NASA in Earth's orbit is bound to receive an upgrade, with the launch of a new spacecraft. Takeoff is currently scheduled to occur sometime in late 2012.
The NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) constellation is responsible for facilitating the communicat... |
22 November 2011
05:06 GMT |
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Representatives from European rocket manufacturer and aerospace company Ariane space and television provider DIRECTV announced last week that an Ariane 5 delivery system would carry the next DIRECTV satellite to Earth's orbit.
The vehicle will help the media group extend the range of services it currently has a... |
21 November 2011
06:33 GMT |
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Officials with the US Geological Survey announced that the organization can no longer collect data from its Landsat 5 Earth-imaging satellite. The cause of the malfunction is an electronic component that is currently degrading at a rapid pace.
The issue is not due to human or mechanical errors, but simply to old ag... |
18 November 2011
10:02 GMT |
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The American space agency and the US Geological Survey (USGS) say that they will continue to monitor the rate at which global resources are extracted, consumed, and therefore diminished. As more than 7 billion people now live all over the world, this is becoming an increasingly important issue.
The fact that the rat... |
17 November 2011
03:59 GMT |
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The Kourou Spaceport, in French Guiana, South America, is currently bustling with activity. European Space Agency (ESA) engineers have just delivered the first stage of the first Vega rocket to its launch pad, and have already started working on it.
Vega is the smallest delivery system ESA plans to use for launchin... |
11 November 2011
09:42 GMT |
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Officials at Northrop Grumman say that the Space Tracking and Surveillance System Demonstration Satellites (STSS) they built have already successfully completed their mission, ahead of schedule.
The spacecraft celebrated their 2-year anniversary on September 25. The main purpose of the STSS network is to track miss... |
10 November 2011
04:53 GMT |
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Experts with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are currently considering a new proposal for delivering satellites into space. The approach would rely on using airplanes for the job, rather than regular rockets.
The Pentagon agency is constantly on the look-out for new options on strengthening... |
8 November 2011
03:16 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that the controls for the first two Galileo satellites have been switched to the Galileo Control Center (GCC), in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. The installation was built specifically for this job.
The maneuver, which took place on November 4, marked the end of the... |
7 November 2011
03:33 GMT |
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As the newest NASA Earth-monitoring satellite soared to the sky this morning, October 28, a photographer was able to capture the entire fire arc that the Delta II rocket left behind as it headed towards Earth's orbit.
The delivery system carried the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite, which itself carr... |
28 October 2011
18:01 GMT |
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