Streaming films and music or accessing business data in the cloud when flying to the holiday destination or to business meetings – this is the dream of passengers as well as airlines. So far, however, fast internet on the ...
Telecom
Jun 19, 2018
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Scheduled to launch no earlier than May 22, the twin satellites of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission, a collaboration between NASA and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), ...
Space Exploration
May 21, 2018
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Typically ESA's shaker tables are used to replicate the take-off vibrations of a satellite-lifting rocket. The large object seen here is not a satellite at all but an 8-tonne cooling system being subjected to a simulated ...
Space Exploration
May 9, 2018
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Many Earth observation satellites make use of an added ingredient to ensure reliable, good quality environmental data: the moon.
Space Exploration
Apr 30, 2018
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An Earth observation satellite called TanSat has produced its first global carbon dioxide maps. TanSat was launched by a collaborative team of researchers in China, and these maps are the first steps to provide global carbon ...
Environment
Apr 17, 2018
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Earth observation is being held back by our inability to transport all the data generated down to earth. Irish researchers have developed a new set of pipes, in the shape of a smart system of optical feeder links, to fix ...
Space Exploration
Mar 28, 2018
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A SpaceX satellite launch from California that could create a spectacular aerial display has been delayed.
Space Exploration
Feb 18, 2018
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The largest contiguous irrigation system on Earth, the Indus Basin provides water to 100 million people across South Asia. This basin is estimated to irrigate 45 million acres of farm land, and it's considered the bread basket ...
Environment
Jan 17, 2018
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The "eye in the sky" has become a major part of research for segments of the scientific community. But how should it be trained?
Earth Sciences
Jan 8, 2018
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ESA's first Earth observation satellite was launched on 23 November 1977. When the first Meteosat satellite took its place in the sky, it completed coverage of the whole globe from geostationary orbit and laid the foundations ...
Space Exploration
Nov 24, 2017
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