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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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After the Iridium satellite crashed with a dead Russian satellite in February, there’s been a concerted effort by the U.S. Strategic Command to better track all satellites and space debris. The debris poses a considerable threat to all satellites, particularly those that cannot be maneuvered, and hinders any launch mission into space. Lt. General Larry [...]
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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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Kass Green, president of Kass Green & Associates and former president of Space Imaging Solutions, spoke yesterday at the Pecora Remote Sensing Symposium about the 30 years of national land imaging success that is still in jeopardy without action from the incoming administration. Green indicated that while the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LCDM) is now [...]
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I’ve been following the space flight of game developer Richard Garriott, the son of NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, that spent almost 12 days in space at the International Space Station. As part of his mission, he took photos of places on Earth for The Nature Conservancy. The plan is to compare these photos to photos [...]
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The International Astronautical Congress takes place in Glasgow, Scotland this week. This annual week-long event provides an international perspective on the global space industry, with many events open to the public. Fittingly, Wednesday is dubbed “Climate Day,” with presentations that will focus on the contribution that Earth observation is making in helping to monitor and [...]
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Popular Science posted a story today that discusses the advancements in earth observation, and the inauspicious start to the United States space program. The vintage film of the 1957 launch failure of the first American satellite, Vanguard, is emphasized as the motivation for launching more ambitious earth observation missions.
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Matt Amato at Analytical Graphics (AGI) has posted a KML file that allows users to use Google Earth to visualize the 13,000 space objects that USSTRATCOM tracks. The post was picked up today by SlashDot. There’s an overwhelming amount of objects here that gives a good sense of the amount of sensors and satellites in [...]
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