Tag: Earth observation

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    Artist’s concept of the SMAP spacecraft in orbit. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s innovative soil moisture mapper, a new environmental satellite launching in January, has been fueled up for blastoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. To be carried aloft by a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket, the liftoff is slated for Jan. 29 at…

  • Winds sensor opens door for Earth science from ISS

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    Part of the RapidScat instrument assembly is seen attached to the space station’s Dextre robot during the transfer from the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Credit: NASA A $26 million science instrument carried to the International Space Station last month by SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule has been switched on and is measuring winds over the world’s oceans…

  • UrtheCast says it will be largest commercial ISS user

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    An early image of Venezuela from the UrtheCast cameras aboard the International Space Station. Credit: UrtheCast. Officials with Canadian Earth observation company UrtheCast, which owns two cameras on the International Space Station’s Russian service module, outlined plans this week to install a remote sensing camera and a radar imaging payload on the outpost’s U.S.-owned Tranquility…