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Scientists discuss new photo-taking satellite
Sioux Falls :: SD :: USA | 14 hours ago
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Nearly 120 scientists and engineers from around the world are meeting in South Dakota this week to discuss operational and technical issues with collecting images from the Landsat 8 satellite...Geological Survey's Earth Resources Observation and
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Landsat aims to maintain gold standard
London :: CA :: USA | 5 months ago
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It's true there are imaging sensors up there now that will return pictures of Earth with far better resolutions (in the tens of centimetres), but for the job Landsat is trying to do, the 30m/pixel view is perfect. Over its 40-year history, Landsat
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NASA prepares for launch of next earth observation satellite
Boulder :: CO :: USA | 5 months ago
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The mission will extend more than 40 years of global land observations that are critical in many areas, such as energy and water management, forest monitoring, human and environmental health, urban planning, disaster recovery and agriculture...
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A special ?eye? up in the sky to constantly watch over the country
Bangalore :: India | 9 months ago
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Bangalore, September 17, 2012 The satellite will be in geo-stationary orbit, always looking over the same region Imagine an eye far up in the sky that is constantly trained on the country and alerts authorities 36,000 km below of trouble spots,
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Gotland voted top in NASA 'Earth as Art' poll
Memphis :: TN :: USA | 11 months ago
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The picture was taken by the Landsat 7 satellite on July 13th 2005 and came in first of a top five winners in the "Earth as Art" competition. The other four winners, chosen from some 120 images selected for public perusal were: Lake Eyre in Australia,
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Europe losing hope for Earth observation satellite
Berlin :: Germany | 1 year ago
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The European Space Agency has all but lost hope of recovering its stricken Earth observation satellite Envisat. The agency lost contact with the satellite April 8 and all efforts to restore communications have failed. ESA said Wednesday that it will
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Sharp eye sees crippled Envisat
New York :: NY :: USA | 1 year ago
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Envisat imaged by sharp-eyed Pleiades Science correspondent, BBC News Envisat pictured by the upward-looking Pleiades spacecraft Engineers have managed to get the first detailed photographs of the crippled Envisat platform. Europe's flagship Earth
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Behold 10 years worth of breathtaking images of Earth [Space Porn]
Guayaquil :: Ecuador | over 1 year ago
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Behold 10 years worth of breathtaking images of Earth The European Space Agency's Envisat is the largest Earth Observation spacecraft ever built, and on March 1st, it celebrated its tenth anniversary in low Earth orbit. In the past decade, the
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Vega rocket set for maiden voyage
Kourou :: French Guiana | over 1 year ago
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Europe's Vega rocket is finally set to make its maiden flight on Monday. The 30m tall vehicle, first conceived in the 1990s, will launch on what is termed a qualification flight from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. It will carry nine
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Chinese hackers suspected of interfering with US satellites
Beijing :: China | over 1 year ago
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Landsat 7 satellite image of the area around Los Alamos showing forest fires in New Mexico...Photograph: Rob Simmon/AP According to Bloomberg , the draft of a new annual report by the US-China Economic and Security Commission includes the claim that
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