Hermes 900 Takes on Maritime Missions
PRESS RELEASE FROM Elbit Systems Hermes 900 Maritime Equipped with Maritime Patrol Radar (MPR) and EO & IR Payloads. Photo: Elbit Systems Hermes 900 Maritime Equipped with Maritime Patrol Radar…
Airborne radar looking through thick ice during NASA polar campaigns
December 2, 2013 by George Hale The bedrock hidden beneath the thick ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica has intrigued researchers for years. Scientists are interested in how the shape…
Algeria seeks SAR UAVs
The Algerian Air Force has reportedly expressed interest in acquiring the Adcom Systems Yabhon United 40 Block 5 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to boost its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR)…
NASA Partners with Amazon to Put Climate “Big Data” Online
Datasets from the NASA Terra satellite, the flagship of NASA's Earth Observation System, are part of the collection uploaded to Amazon Web Services in an experimental partnership between NASA and…
Fixed-price Contracts Contained Impact of Copernicus Cost Growth
Fixed-price Contracts Contained Impact of Copernicus Cost Growth by Peter B. de Selding — November 22, 2013 Copernicus users had hoped Sentinel-1A, which carries a synthetic aperture radar sensor, would…
China unexpectedly launched a SAR Satellite
Chinese surveillance payload put in orbit by Long March 2C BY STEPHEN CLARK SPACEFLIGHT NOW Posted: October 29, 2013 China unexpectedly launched a Long March rocket Tuesday and put into…
The Grey Eagle Drone Now Flies for Nearly Two Days Straight
The Grey Eagle Drone Now Flies for Nearly Two Days Straight Andrew Tarantola 10/28/13 11:30am We do not offer the full text of this article. Please read the article on…
EO in the EU Partnership as Key to Commercial Success
Commercial Earth Observation | European Radar Satellite Operators See Partnership as Key to Commercial Success by Peter B. de Selding — October 14, 2013 The 1,410-kilogram Paz, whose launch had…
Dnepr Rocket Launches Kompsat-5/Arirang-5 X-band SAR
by Peter B. de Selding — August 23, 2013 The Kompsat-5/Arirang-5 X-band synthetic aperture radar spacecraft adds radar to South Korea's existing optical Earth observation satellite capacity. Credit: KARI artist's…
SpaceX awarded SARah missions
SpaceX awarded first European government contract via SARah missions August 8, 2013 by Chris Bergin no alt In a milestone launch contract award for SpaceX, the Californian company will use…