Boeing Delivers Advanced Satellite Communications Network to Mexico
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Aug. 25, 2016 – Boeing [NYSE:BA] has delivered one of the world’s most advanced satellite communications systems to Mexico, one that opens…
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Earthquake in Italy: e-GEOS, within the Copernicus program, provides satellite images, maps and data in support of the rescue operation
In the early hours of this morning the operating centres in Rome and Matera of e-GEOS, the joint venture between Telespazio (Leonardo – Finmeccanica/Thales) and…
Lockheed Martin’s GOES-R Weather Satellite ready to Launch
NOAA’s newest weather satellite, GOES-R, left its Colorado home where it was built and is now in Florida where it will undergo preparations for a…
Proba-3, can view the sun’s corona without bothering about shadows
Every 18 months or so, scientists and sensation-seekers gather at set points on Earth’s surface, to await awe-inspiring solar eclipses. The Moon briefly blocks the…
Northrop Grumman’s Astro Aerospace Completes NISAR Reflector Preliminary Design Review
CARPINTERIA, Calif., Aug. 17, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Astro Aerospace, a Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) company, has completed the preliminary design review (PDR) of the…
NASA Prepares to Launch First U.S. Asteroid Sample Return Mission
NASA is preparing to launch its first mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth. The mission will help scientists investigate how planets…
FAA-AST Awards Virgin Galactic Operator License For SpaceShipTwo
We kicked off August with two important milestones. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA-AST) has awarded Virgin Galactic an operator…
CryoSat sets new standard for measuring sea levels
Trying to measure sea levels around rugged coastlines is not always an easy task. ESA’s CryoSat satellite is making a difference with its radar altimeter….
ESA commits to next stage of UK revolutionary rocket engine
The Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine, SABRE, is a unique engine designed to use atmospheric air in the early part of its flight to orbit before…
Chilly summer for Sentinel-2B
While most of us may be looking forward to spending some time in the sunshine this summer, the Sentinel-2B satellite is being subjected to the…
Juno arrives at Jupiter with radiation-hardened electronics
RAD750 single-board computer helped the Juno spacecraft travel 2 billion miles to study our biggest planetary neighbor. With a magnetic field 20,000 times stronger than…
Launch Day Arrives for Three Expedition 48-49 Crew Members
At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, and astronaut Takuya Onishi of the…