NASA builds sophisticated Earth-observing SAR microwave radiometer
NASA RELEASE This is an artist concept of NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive mission. Credit: NASA/JPL A NASA team delivered in May a sophisticated microwave radiometer specifically designed to overcome…
GA-ASI’s VideoSAR Makes Full-Motion Video
PRESS RELEASE FROM GA General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA‑ASI), has successful developped, integrated and operationally tested a system enabling the transfer of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data in in…
25 SAR Satellites By 2033
Jun 10, 2013 Amy Svitak | Aviation Week & Space Technology Ten years ago Turkey pledged to invest more in space technology as a means to improve the nation's intelligence-gathering,…
American Drone Shot Down by Somali Insurgents
This Is the American Drone Shot Down by Somali Insurgents Andrew Tarantola 5/30/13 11:30am The Twitter feed for Islamic extremist group al-Shabaab lit up on May 27 publishing photos of…
SpaceX to launch SAR-Lupe constellation
HAWTHORNE, CALIFORNIA – Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) will provide the launch services for Germany’s second-generation radar reconnaissance satellite system. Gwynne Shotwell: “The satellites, provided by OHB System AG and Astrium…
‘TECHNICAL ANOMALY’ Canada’s first commercial satellite
Space mystery causes 'technical anomaly' knocking out Canada's first commercial satellite. A “technical anomaly” appears to have knocked out Canada’s Radarsat-1 satellite, which has been beaming images of everything from…
KOMPSAT-5 to Be Launched in August
Tech Transfer Propagates Earth-Observation Programs U.S., Europe face growing competition from emerging space economies Mar 4, 2013Amy Svitak | Aviation Week & Space Technology We do not offer the…
CryoSat-2 Confirms Sea Ice Volume Has Collapsed
Dr. Joe Romm is Founding Editor of Climate Progress, “the indispensable blog,” as NY Times columnist Tom Friedman describes it. Feb 14, 2013 Back in September, Climate Progress reported that…
SAR UAV-Copter starts trials
I-Master-equipped Camcopter S-100 conducts trials 19th February 2013 - 15:08by The Shephard News Team Schiebel has announced that its Camcopter S-100 UAV has conducted flight trials equipped with a Thales…
RAF’s Sentinel fleet could escape retirement
RAF's Sentinel fleet could escape retirement, says MoD The UK Ministry of Defence is reviewing its decision to remove the Royal Air Force's Bombardier Global Express-based Sentinel R1 surveillance aircraft…