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Satellites for Asia and India are orbited on Arianespace's third Ariane 5 mission of 2011Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) May 20, 2011 The 44th consecutive successful Ariane 5 flight has further underscored the flexibility and performance of this workhorse launch system - orbiting a pair of telecommunications spacecraft to serve one of the world's most dynamically-developing regions, and maintaining Arianespace's mission pace in 2011. Lifting off on time from the Spaceport in French Guiana at 5:38 p.m., the heavy-lift vehicle deployed its Asian/Indian payload of the ST-2 and GSAT-8 satellite passengers during a 31-minute mission ... read more |
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 Russia sends two Soyuz carrier rockets to French Guiana Two Russian Soyuz-ST carrier rockets are on the way from Samara to St. Petersburg to be shipped to French Guiana for future launches from the Kourou space center, the Progress design bureau said. ... more | .. |
  NASA/University Japan Quake Study Yields Surprises When the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku-Oki earthquake and resulting tsunami struck off the northeast coast of Japan on March 11, they caused widespread destruction and death. Using observations from a dense ... more | .. |
  Mars Rover Driving Leaves Distinctive Tracks A dance-step pattern is visible in the wheel tracks near the left edge of this scene recorded by the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity during the 2,554th Martian day, or ... more | .. | ||
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  Northrop Grumman to Develop New Micro Gyro Technology for DARPA Northrop Grumman, in partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology, has been selected to develop a new type of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) gyroscope technology for the Defense Advan ... more | .. |
 LockMart To Upgrade Finland's Precision Fires Capability Lockheed Martin has received a $45.3 million contract to upgrade 22 Finnish Army M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) launchers, incorporating the Universal Fire Control System and other enhanc ... more | .. |
 NASA Mission Will Observe Earth's Salty Seas Final preparations are under way for the June 9 launch of the international Aquarius/SAC-D observatory. The mission's primary instrument, Aquarius, will study interactions between ocean circulation, ... more | .. |
 Satellite data helps track environmental influences on giant kelp Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have developed new methods for studying how environmental factors and climate affect giant kelp forest ecosystems at unprecedented spatial and temporal scales. T ... more |
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 NASA ocean-watch satellite ready for June launch The US space agency said Tuesday it is preparing to launch a satellite to observe levels of salt on the surface of the world's oceans and how changes in salinity may be linked to future climate. ... more | .. |
 TerraSAR-X images Urban sprawl around Istanbul Nobody knows exactly how many people live in Istanbul, but there are thought to be about 15 million inhabitants of this city on two continents. Images from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zen ... more | .. |
 Mapping the impact of a deadly mosquito ESA is helping to take the bite out of mosquitoes and their deadly diseases by tracking their distribution and habitat via observation satellites, satnav, and mobile communications. The Vecmap ... more | .. |
 Ball Aerospace Completes Thermal Vacuum Testing Of NPOESS Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing for NASA's NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite to advance the spacecraft closer to a planned October 25 ... more |
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  Researchers demonstrate autonomous robots able to explore and map buildings There isn't a radio-control handset in sight as several small robots roll briskly up the hallways of an office building. Working by themselves and communicating only with one another, the vehicles d ... more | .. |
 Preparations for third Ariane 5 mission of 2011 move into their final phase India's GSAT-8 multi-mission satellite has been integrated on the Ariane 5 launcher for Arianespace's third flight of 2011, moving this mission campaign into its final preparations for a May 19 lift ... more | .. |
 Tornado Challenges Satellite Damage Track Detection Techniques The Short-term Prediction Research and Transition, or SPoRT, team has used satellite data from the North Alabama region to identify tornado damage from the April 27th super storm outbreak. NAS ... more | .. |
  Earth's Nearest Neighbor Within Reach NASA has created a new interactive web-based tool that incorporates observations from past and current lunar missions creating one of the most comprehensive lunar research websites to date. Th ... more |
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 ESA's water mission keeps tabs on dry spring soils Western Europe's exceptionally dry spring is clear to see in maps generated using data from SMOS. While these maps offer an interesting view of the stark difference in soil moisture compared to a ye ... more | .. |
 Boeing Awarded Fifth USAF Combat Survivor Evader Locator Contract Boeing received a $21.4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force March 31 to manufacture and deliver an additional 2,424 Combat Survivor Evader Locator (CSEL) combat search and rescue radios. ... more | .. |
 Aquarius to Illuminate Links Between Salt and Climate When NASA's salt-seeking Aquarius instrument ascends to the heavens this June, the moon above its launch site at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base won't be in the seventh house, and Jupiter's l ... more | .. |
 Mississippi Flooding Captured by NASA Satellites The Mississippi River reached nearly 48 feet in Memphis, Tenn., on May 10, according to the U.S. National Weather Service. It was the highest water level for Memphis since 1937. Several of NAS ... more |
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  NASA's Dawn Captures First Image of Nearing Asteroid NASA's Dawn spacecraft has obtained its first image of the giant asteroid Vesta, which will help fine-tune navigation during its approach. Dawn is expected to achieve orbit around Vesta on July 16, ... more | .. |
  Antarctic icebergs help the ocean take up carbon dioxide The first comprehensive study of the biological effects of Antarctic icebergs shows that they fertilize the Southern Ocean, enhancing the growth of algae that take up carbon dioxide from the atmosph ... more | .. |
  Europe's first EGNOS airport to guide down giant Beluga aircraft Pau Pyrenees in southern France has become Europe's first airport to use the new EGNOS Safety-of-Life Service, to guide aircraft in for landing using only this highly accurate space navigation signa ... more | .. |
  Soyuz launch from Europe space base set for October The maiden launch of the veteran Soviet-Russian rocket Soyuz from Europe's space base in South America has been scheduled for October, a spokesman for launch operators Arianespace said on Tuesday. ... more |
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 India's new satellite beams high quality images India's latest advanced remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2 has beamed high quality images distinctly showing the northern and western regions of the country, the space agency said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Scalable SIRU Guides MESSENGER Spacecraft to Orbit Mercury Northrop Grumman's space navigation aid recently provided key guidance and control information that allowed NASA's MESSENGER to become the first spacecraft to successfully orbit Mercury, marking the ... more | .. |
 ST-2's installation on SYLDA marks the start of final payload integration for Ariane 5's next mission Arianespace's third Ariane 5 flight of 2011 has entered its final preparations with installation of the ST-2 satellite on the launcher's SYLDA dual-passenger dispenser system, positioning it for the ... more | .. |
 TRMM Maps a Wet Spring, 2011 for the Central U.S. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite has been keeping track of the drenching rainfall that has been occurring in the central U.S. this springtime, and a newly created rain map from t ... more |
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 Venezuela parliament authorizes new satellite program with China Venezuela's National Assembly on Thursday endorsed a new satellite contract program with China, the second such bilateral project between the two countries. The parliament published the author ... more | .. |
 Moscow court upholds ban against satellite image distributor A Moscow court upheld a ban on Friday prohibiting the Russian research and development company ScanEx from distributing satellite images of Earth at a resolution higher than two meters. Scanex ... more | .. |
  Does the central Andean backarc have the potential for a great earthquake? The region east of the central Andes Mountains has the potential for larger scale earthquakes than previously expected, according to a new study posted online in Nature Geoscience. Previous research ... more | .. |
 Pivotal Shift Underway in Satellite Observations of Earth Making use of Earth remote sensing satellites to help monitor and perhaps defuse conflict is among the topics presented in the Spring 2011 issue of Imaging Notes magazine - a unique publication devo ... more |
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