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ESA’s EarthCARE satellite, poised to revolutionise our understanding of how clouds and aerosols affect our climate, has been launched. This extraordinary satellite embarked on its journey into space on 29 May at 00:20 CEST (28 May, 15:20 local time) aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US. Just 10 ...

On April 27, 2024 the SpaceX Falcon 9 medium-lift launch vehicle launched into orbit Galileo satellites GM25 and FM27 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was Falcon 9’s 20th and final launch. The EU Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) confirmed in a statement that it is now in the Launch and Early Orbit ...

Dedicated to delivering a wealth of new information on exactly how clouds and aerosols affect Earth’s climate, ESA’s EarthCARE satellite has had the chance to show off prior to engineers embarking upon the careful task of packing it up for its journey to the launch site in the US. Carrying four different instruments, this remarkable ...

Satellogic Inc., a leader in sub-meter resolution satellite imagery collection, today announced that four NewSats Mark-V spacecraft successfully reached low-Earth orbit following a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch on June 12th from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This marks Satellogic’s 15th mission and its first payload comprised exclusively of its latest generation spacecraft with advanced ...

Indian space sector startup Azista BST Aerospace Pvt Ltd`s first remote sensing satellite ABA First Runner (AFR) was successfully orbited by SpaceX`s Falcon 9 rocket. According to SpaceX, the rocket on a dedicated rideshare mission carried 72 spacecraft that includes CubeSats, MicroSats and others and one of them was the Ahmedabad-based Azista BST Aerospace`s 80 ...

NASA and Rocket Lab launched two of the agency’s CubeSats on Sunday to study tropical cyclones with greater frequency than existing satellites, according to an agency announcement. The CubeSats were launched on an Electron Rocket from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex in New Zealand at 9pm EDT on Sunday—or 1pm NZST on Monday. The launch was ...

W październiku br. będziemy świadkami wyniesienia w przestrzeń kosmiczną kolejnego satelity pochodzącego z Polski. Celem misji kosmicznej Intuition-1 jest wykonywanie zobrazowań Ziemi z wykorzystaniem satelity z instrumentem hiperspektralnym oraz zaawansowaną jednostką do przetwarzania danych na pokładzie opartej o głębokie sieci neuronowe w postaci komputera pokładowego – Leopard. Będzie to pierwszy na świecie satelita o mocy ...

O VCUB1, o primeiro nanossatélite de alto desempenho desenvolvido pela indústria nacional, foi lançado na madrugada deste sábado (15), às 3h48 (horário de Brasília), a partir da base de Vandenberg, no estado da Califórnia, nos Estados Unidos, a bordo do foguete Falcon 9 da SpaceX, que cumpriu a missão Transporter-7. Produzido pela Visiona Tecnologia Espacial, ...

Kenya launched its first operational earth observation satellite on Saturday onboard a SpaceX rocket from the United States. The satellite, developed by nine Kenyan engineers, will collect agricultural and environmental data, including on floods, drought, and wildfires, that authorities plan to use for disaster management and to combat food insecurity. “We have the challenges that ...

Dubai [Abu Dhabi] April 15, (ANI/WAM): Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has successfully launched its second nanosatellite, DEWA SAT-2, aboard SpaceX ‘s Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA. The launch of DEWA SAT-2 underlines ‘s leadership in using space technologies to improve the operations, maintenance and planning of electricity ...

SpaceX scrubbed its 24th time this year with the Transporter-7 rideshare mission from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base due to weather constraints. The mission will try again on Friday at 11:47 PM PDT (06:47 UTC on April 15). On this flight, the launch integrators with ports on the payload stack ...

SpaceX launched its fourth mission of the year, a GPS-III satellite for the US Space Force, on Wednesday, Jan. 18. The launch saw a Falcon 9 rocket lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:24 EST (12:24 UTC). The payload for this mission is Global Positioning System ...

NSF has outlined a new agreement it signed with SpaceX to protect ground-based astronomy covering the brightness of Starlink satellites, competing usage of radio bands, and finding ways to ensure Starlink’s orbital information is publicly available so astronomers can schedule observations around satellite locations. SpaceX has agreed to coordinate with impacted US radio astronomy facilities. ...

Albania’s first two satellites were launched into space from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) on January 3. Tirana plans to use the satellites to detect crimes such as drug cultivation, illegal construction and logging. They will also make it easier to monitor traffic and border security, and fight wildfires — a growing problem in ...

Dragonfly Aerospace is launching its first Imaging satellite today, EOS SAT-1. The satellite, manufactured entirely by Dragonfly Aerospace in Stellenbosch, South Africa, is the world’s first agriculture-focused satellite constellation. EOS SAT-1 will provide the agriculture and forestry industry with efficient data to advance sustainable practices and ensure profitability. In addition, the satellite will directly affect ...

NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) to provide launch services for the Sentinel-6B mission. Sentinel-6B will continue the long-term global sea level data record begun in 1992 by Topex/Poseidon, followed by Jason 1, 2, 3, and Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich. The mission is a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the European ...

In 2020, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin — backed by US Army funding — claimed that, with a simple software upgrade, SpaceX’s Starlink satellite mega-constellation could serve as a low-cost backup to traditional GPS. Because the satellites orbit at an altitude of just 340 miles, their signals are stronger at ground level ...