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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has just released a report on Environmental Satellites: Strategy Needed to Sustain Critical Climate and Space Weather Measurements. In the report, GAO finds a lack of continuation plans to provide the full measurement capabilities necessary to understand our changing planet. “Until an interagency strategy for earth observation is established, and [...]
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The European Union satellite constellation Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) received funding approval from the European Parliament’s industry committee with $107 Million euro for operations for 2011-2013. The full European Parliament is exptectd to approve this investment in June. The mission forms the European contribution to the worldwide Global Earth Observation System of [...]
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An irregularity in the GeoEye-1 downlink antennae is limiting its range of motion and affecting the ability to image and downlink simultaneously. Imagery collections were suspended for a few days after the irregularity was discovered on Dec. 11. The glitch was discussed in the company’s quarterly earnings call, and the company speculated that the problem [...]
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The content of a recent story in AllAfrica.com caught my eye due to the news that Uganda will soon have a GEONETCast satellite imagery receiver to monitor the weather and environment for increased agricultural production. The imagery is a vital link in helping these farmers obtain the data necessary to mitigate against crop lost. The [...]
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A new federal government-sponsored report on the Strategic Plan on Earth Observations from Space outlines a 15-year timetable to collect imagery and data using satellites. The report stated that the country has been a “freeloader” on programs launched by other countries, and that the country should be able to monitor their own critical data for [...]
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South Korea’s launch of an earth observation satellite yesterday failed to deploy the satellite after one of the satellite’s two covers didn’t come off. The launch was previously scheduled for a week ago, but was aborted due to issues with software that controlled the Russian-built rocket. The rocket performed as expected yesterday, but the satellite [...]
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Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space exploration business sold a 32 percent stake to an Abu Dhabi investor, raising $280 million. The bulk of the investment is said to go toward testing of the company’s SpaceShipTwo launch vehicle that will ultimately take tourists into space. The company is also busy developing a satellite launch vehicle for [...]
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Last night a new television station launched on the DISH Network featuring a live view of earth 24 hourse per day. The DISH Earth channel features a live camera feed from the DISH Network’s EchoStar 1 Satellite, offering a full earth view from 22,300 miles above the Earth in a geo-synchronous orbit at 110 degrees [...]
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The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is set to launch its first radar imaging satellite (Risat) on Monday, April 20. The satellite gives the agency the ability to capture imagery regardless of weather and time of day. See more details here.
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The collision of Russia’s defunct Cosmos 2251 satellite and Iridium’s communication satellite last week left at least 2,000 pieces of hazardous debris in orbit that needs to be tracked and avoided by other spacecraft and space missions. The expanding amount of debris in space, and the growing number of countries with an interest in owning [...]
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