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Elon Musk’s success criteria for Starship test flight: “Don’t blow up the launch pad”
SpaceX’s fully fueled Starship and Super Heavy booster during the first launch attempt Monday, April 17. Credit: SpaceX Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and CEO, did his best to set low expectations heading into the first test flight of the gargantuan Super Heavy booster and Starship rocket this week. “I would consider anything that does not…
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What Is Medium Resolution?
Medium resolution refers to the spatial resolution size of a satellite image. In simple terms, the resolution type will determine the clarity of your optical image. The smaller the pixel size, the more “clear” your image will look. Medium resolution is the second largest size per pixel offered by a satellite provider. The size of…
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What Is Temporal Resolution?
Temporal resolution, also known as re-visit rates, vary from different providers. Temporal resolution provides information on the time difference between the acquisitions of two images over the same area. Above all, the higher the temporal resolution, the shorter the time difference between the image acquisitions. Each satellite has a maximum number of visits per day…
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Cubespace’s Wide Network and Capabilities Makes It a Global ADCS Partner
Cubespace is a company that purely focus on innovative satellite control systems. With 9+ years of industry expertise and 240+ satellites in orbit and 2200+ deliveries, Cubespace aims to make systems so user-friendly, so robust, so affordable, and so scalable, that it makes a global impact on the industry and changes the way satellites are…
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Eutelsat Signs Latin America Broadcast Deal with Fox Sports Mexico
Eutelsat has won a new broadcasting contract in Latin America. The company announced April 18 that it has signed a multi-year agreement with FOX Sports Mexico, a sports broadcaster, to distribute channels across Mexico via the Eutelsat 117 West A satellite. FOX Sports Mexico is one of Mexico’s leading multi-platform pay TV sports broadcasters. It…
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Space Force Chief Warns Against Complacency in Space Operations
The head of the U.S. Space Force wants to shake up how the U.S. military works in space, challenging the “comfort” that comes out of continuity, success, and the “family-like” atmosphere in the space industry. Speaking at Space Symposium in Colorado Springs on Wednesday, Space Force Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations, outlined multiple…
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Aerojet Rocketdyne wins $67M contract for Orion thrusters built in Seattle area
An artist’s conception shows the Orion spacecraft’s main engine firing during a lunar flyby, surrounded by eight of Aerojet Rocketdyne’s Redmond-built auxiliary engines. (NASA Illustration) Aerojet Rocketdyne says it’s received a $67 million contract award from Lockheed Martin to provide propulsion systems for the Orion spacecraft that’ll carry astronauts to the moon during three missions…
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What Is Low Resolution?
Low resolution refers to the spatial resolution of a satellite image. In simple terms, the resolution type will determine the clarity of your optical image. The smaller the pixel size, the more “clear” your image will look. Low resolution is the largest size per pixel offered by a satellite provider. The size of a pixel…
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What Is Image Output?
Image output is about determining the color or bands and indices you want to obtain in order to gain valuable information about your AOI. When tasking a satellite, there are multiple options available: Multispectral outputs are made up of bands within the multispectral spectral ranges. The different options include true colour, false colour urban, false…
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What Is Very High Resolution?
Very high resolution (VHR) refers to the spatial resolution size of a satellite image. In simple terms, the resolution type will determine the clarity of your optical image. The smaller the pixel size, the more “clear” your image will look. Very high resolution is one of the smallest sizes per pixel offered by a satellite…