Tag: Earth observation
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Photos: Indian launcher assembled to loft environment-monitoring spacecraft
India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle has been stacked on its launch pad for blastoff early Wednesday with a new resource-mapping satellite to aid in urban planning, crop monitoring and improve emergency response to natural disasters. The PSLV is scheduled for launch at 0454 GMT Wednesday (11:54 p.m. EST Tuesday) from the First Launch Pad at…
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Launch timeline for Vega’s liftoff with Gokturk 1
Turkey’s most advanced Earth observation satellite will ride a four-stage Vega rocket into polar orbit nearly 435 miles (700 kilometers) above Earth to begin collecting high-resolution images for Turkish military and security authorities. The ascent will take nearly an hour following launch from French Guiana at 1351:44 GMT (8:51:44 a.m. EST) Monday. Credit: Arianespace T+00:00:00…
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NASA declares end for space station’s hurricane monitoring instrument
ISS-RapidScat wind speed data from a North Atlantic storm in October 2014, as seen by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System used by weather forecasters at NOAA’s Ocean Prediction Center. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/NOAA NASA’s RapidScat instrument mounted on a platform outside the International Space Station to track winds over the world’s…
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Turkish military satellite joined with Vega launcher
Ground crew members lower the Gokturk 1 satellite inside its payload fairing on top of the Vega rocket’s fourth stage. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – G. Barbaste A European-built reconnaissance satellite for the Turkish armed forces has been fastened to the top of its Vega launcher for liftoff from French Guiana…
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Forecasters worldwide brace for ‘data deluge’ from new weather satellites
Typhoon Megi churns near Taiwan in this Sept. 26 image from the Advanced Himawari Imager aboard Japan’s Himawari 9 weather satellite. Credit: JMA High-tech cameras made in Indiana will soon be scanning across Asia, Australia, the Americas and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to give weather forecasters an unrivaled minute-by-minute glimpse of the development and…
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Vega rocket hauls up quintet of Earth observation satellites
The Vega rocket blasted off at 0143:35 GMT Friday (9:43:35 p.m. EDT; 10:43:35 p.m. French Guiana time Thursday) from the Guiana Space Center. Credit: Arianespace Europe’s solid-fueled Vega booster vaulted away from a launch pad in the South American jungle late Thursday and deftly delivered five sharp-eyed Earth observation satellites into two different orbits for…
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Atlas 5 launch postponed by wildfire, Range availability until Sept. 26
(Launch webcast begins at 11:05 a.m. PDT / 2:05 p.m. EDT / 1805 GMT) Mission Status Center Live coverage of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket flight to deploy the commercial WorldView 4 Earth-imaging satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Live coverage: Vega rocket blasts off from French Guiana on commercial flight
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Vega rocket rocket with PeruSat 1 and four SkySat Earth observation satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Timeline for the Vega rocket’s seventh launch
Two orbits. Five satellites. Four upper stage burns. Follow the key events scheduled during the European Vega rocket’s launch from French Guiana with the PeruSat 1 high-resolution reconnaissance satellite and four commercial eyes-in-the-sky owned by Google’s Terra Bella imaging company. Credit: Arianespace T+00:00:00 – Liftoff The Vega rocket’s first stage P80 solid rocket motor ignites…
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Google satellites, Peruvian payload stacked for launch on Vega rocket
The Vega rocket’s payload fairing, containing the PeruSat 1 and Terra Bella satellites, arrived at the base of the Vega launch pad Sept. 2. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – P. Piron Five Earth-imaging spacecraft for the Peruvian government and Google’s Terra Bella satellite subsidiary are enclosed inside the nose cone of…