
Relevance Score: 4.175 2009-07-13 22:24:20
The Megha-Tropiques Mission (MTM), a joint venture of Indian and French space agencies to study tropical weather, is planned to be launched during March-April 2010, Pascale Ultre-Guerard, head of Earth Observation Programme at Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES - French Space Agency), has said. Officials of the CNES and the Indian ...
Relevance Score: 3.717 2009-05-31 18:36:36
ESA's next Earth Explorer, SMOS, has recently fulfilled the requirements of the all-important Flight Acceptance Review (FAR), signifying that all the elements that make up the mission are in place for launch later this year — the satellite is almost ready for its journey to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern ...
Relevance Score: 3.696 2009-09-29 18:07:51
Two distinguished aerospace leaders are the recipients of the 25th annual International von Kármán Wings Award. Receiving the honor this year are Abdul Kalam, the 11th president of India and distinguished professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, and Yannick d'Escatha, chairman and chief executive officer of the Centre National ...
Relevance Score: 3.308 2010-01-05 10:19:16
After nearly 5 years of concurrent operations with the Afternoon Constellation, called as the “A-Train,” the PARASOL satellite is going on another orbit “track.” The A-Train includes a number of NASA satellites that orbit the Earth one behind the other on the same track and until this month, PARASOL has ...
Relevance Score: 3.177 2010-01-18 21:35:24
PHARAO Atomic Clock Agreement Inked Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight, and Thierry Duquesne, CNES Director for Strategy, Programs and International Relations, signed an agreement that paves the way for the launch of a high-accuracy atomic clock to be attached to the outside of the European Columbus laboratory onboard ...
Relevance Score: 3.028 2009-10-28 17:44:19
An Earth observing satellite that delivers new insight into the role that clouds and atmospheric aerosols play in regulating weather, climate, and air quality has hit its target two billion times. The Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) mission, developed by NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, and ...
Relevance Score: 3.011 2009-10-05 13:15:15
The SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) Earth observation satellite has been shipped to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia where he will start its launch campaign for a Rockot launch planned on November 2nd. SMOS left the Thales Alenia Space plant in Cannes on September 16th. SMOS is a joint ...
Relevance Score: 2.393 2009-11-24 16:40:51
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite launched this month will monitor climate change. SMOS is the first satellite crafted to map sea surface salinity and to survey soil moisture on a global scale. The SMOS mission was conceived in 1988 and developed by the Centre d'Études Spatiales de la ...
Relevance Score: 2.260 2009-08-21 00:47:55
Located over 12 000 kilometers from the Alps, the Kerguelen Islands are home to the largest French glacier, the Cook ice cap (which had an area of around 500 km2 in 1963). By combining historical information with recent satellite data, the glaciologists at the Laboratory for Space Studies in Geophysics ...
Relevance Score: 2.148 2009-07-06 18:53:47
EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, took place for 67th time in Darmstadt, Germany, on June 20th and July 1st. The meeting was chaired by General Dr. Massimo Capaldo, Head of the Meteorological Department (Chief of the Staff Office - Ufficio Generale Spazio Aereo e Meteorologia) ...
Relevance Score: 2.082 2010-02-17 23:51:46
The company announced a contract has been inked with the French and Italian space agencies for a broadband civil and military telecommunications satellite. According to AFP, Thales Alenia Space, European leader in satellite systems, announced in a press release today that “a contract has been signed with the French ...
Relevance Score: 1.983 2009-10-20 20:31:29
Telemedia Group has launched Telemigrants Mali, an innovative pilot program designed to deliver a continuous high speed Internet between two remote locations Kersiniane and Yelimane and native migrants based in Montreuil, in the outskirts of Paris. This program is innovative because it is a real mutualist digital infrastructure for ...
Relevance Score: 1.975 2009-12-10 16:11:04
The Ariane 5 GS rocket carrying the Helios 2B satellite has been put in stand-by mode. The launch of French military satellite, Helios 2B, has been postponed because of technical problems. The satellite was planned to be launched on board an Ariane 5 GS rocket from the French Guiana ...
Relevance Score: 1.795 2009-12-09 20:36:36
The Arianespace center has confirmed on its official website that the Wednesday launch of the French military observation satellite Helios 2B was postponed for several days, as an "anomaly of the launcher" was found. The lift-off was originally scheduled at around 17:26 Paris time (1626 GMT) from the Kourou launch ...
Relevance Score: 1.497 2008-09-14 01:38:03
Thales Alenia Space and Inmarsat signed an ATP for the development of the "EuropaSat" satellite to provide mobile broadcast and two-way telecommunications services in the S-Band throughout Europe. Cannes, August 22, 2008 - Thales Alenia Space and Inmarsat signed today an ATP (Authorization To Proceed) for the development of the "EuropaSat" ...
Relevance Score: 1.377 2009-11-10 17:47:17
The SMOS and Proba-2 lift off, on November 2, 2009, at 02:50 CET (01:50 UT) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. The successful launch occurred via a Rokot rocket that carried the two European satellites into space. 'The launch of the Rokot rocket carrying SMOS and Proba-2 satellites ...
Relevance Score: 1.369 2010-01-06 22:56:02
Inter-planetary exploration, global warming, the predicted boom in the Indian aerospace sector and the relentless search for dark energy were some of the topics that dominated the Space Summit organised on the second day of the 97th Indian Science Congress here on Monday. With natural disasters on the increase, global ...
Relevance Score: 1.355 2009-11-16 15:12:11
Following the launch of ESA’s SMOS satellite on 2 November, the French space agency CNES, which is responsible for operating the satellite, has confirmed that the instrument’s three antenna arms have deployed as scheduled, and that the instrument is in good health. During launch and the first few orbits ...
Relevance Score: 1.346 2010-02-06 13:59:35
The service module of the new Alphabus generation of telecommunication satellites has completed its first journey ? from Cannes to Toulouse, in France. The three-day trip was completed last Friday. This platform will be used for the Alphasat I-XL satellite being built by Astrium for Inmarsat and ESA, allowing an early ...
Relevance Score: 1.258 2009-06-02 01:14:10
An Expedition 19 ARISS school contact has been planned with participants at Mahopac Public Library, New York on Wednesday 03 June 2009. The event is planned to begin at approximately 15:47 UTC, which is 17:47 CEST. The contact will be a telebridge between OR4ISS and ON4ISS. The participants are expected to ...
Relevance Score: 1.240 2000-04-06 01:21:43
ACeS - ASIA Cellular Satellite Air Force Space and Missile System Center Air Force Space Command AMSAT - The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation APT Satellite - APT Group Holding Arabsat Asia Broadcast Satellite Asia Cellular Satellite Asia Satellite Communications Asiasat Assuresat Astrolink AstroVision Avanti Communications Binariang Satellite Systems BQT Solutions Broadcasting Satellite ...
Relevance Score: 1.219 2009-07-10 23:58:39
Using radiation measurements obtained by the MetOp satellite, scientists have prepared the first complete map of global ammonia emissions – a pollutant of key environmental concern. The map, based on observations throughout 2008, shows inaccuracies in current ammonia inventories and identifies new hotspots. Ammonia emissions contribute to a host of ...
Relevance Score: 0.306 2009-07-26 17:07:07
Adoption of new commercially-available platforms and technologies has fuelled a global military communications industry worth more than $15bn per annum. Prime beneficiaries of this trend have included suppliers of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products and services to the military. Given the onset of the global economic recession in late 2008 and ...
Relevance Score: 0.306 2009-07-26 20:39:38
Adoption of new commercially-available platforms and technologies has fuelled a global military communications industry worth more than $15bn per annum. Prime beneficiaries of this trend have included suppliers of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products and services to the military. Given the onset of the global economic recession in late 2008 and ...
