China Launches Two Tianhui SAR satellites for InSAR
China launched a Long March 4B rocket Wednesday carrying two Tianhui radar mapping satellites into orbit more than 300 miles in altitude. The two satellites will join a similar pair of…
SAR Critical to NASA’s Plan to fight Climate Change
NASA is planning to spend $2.5 billion on five new spacecraft to monitor the changing climate. The first mission, to launch in January 2023, is a partnership with the Indian…
Turkey unveils National Space Program including SAR Mission
High-resolution provider Gokturk 3 will be sent soon and Turksat 6A is set to launch in 2022. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced 10 goals as he revealed the country’s domestic space…
SAR Takes a Long Look at California Forest Fire Damage and Regrowth
Landscape ecologist Naiara Pinto and colleagues at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to take a long view at forest fires in California, trying to decipher…
Canada Fighting Illegal Fishing in Outer-space
Globally, IUU fishing is a major contributor to declining fish stocks and marine habitat destruction. It is estimated that IUU fishing accounts for about 30 per cent of all fishing…
INSAR Detection and Measurement of Land Subsidence in the Coachella Valley
Groundwater has been a major source of agricultural, recreational, municipal, and domestic supply in the Coachella Valley of California since the early 1920s. Pumping of groundwater resulted in groundwater-level declines…
i2k Military Inflatables Case Study
THE SITUATION The U.S. Armed Force is constantly looking for new ways to train their operatives in the detection of enemy vehicles and aircraft. One technique that they use is…
Argentina Launches SAOCOM-1B Satellite into Polar Orbit
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched Argentina’s SAOCOM-1B satellite into polar orbit, a flight path quite different from most vehicles launched from the East Coast of the U.S. which normally head…
Successful Deployment SAOCOM1B Satellite
Successful deployment of Argentina's #SAOCOM1B satellite! This radar sat will be measuring soil moisture content, an important indicator for agriculture. https://twitter.com/tanyaofmars/status/1300215843977134081?s=20
NRO Needs More SAR
AI need for NRO’s efforts to use large constellations of small satellites in the future to fill the huge appetite within the Intelligence Community and the military services for remote…