LISA Pathfinder topped off for Vega launch that will test Relativity
Paris (ESA) Nov 11, 2015 -
The LISA Pathfinder scientific space probe to be launched by Arianespace's next Vega flight has received its propellant load for a mission to study the ripples in space-time predicted by Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
LISA Pathfinder was "topped off" in the Spaceport's S5 payload preparation facility, taking it one step closer to a December 2 launch from French Guiana on A ...
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McMurdo extends search and rescue ecosystem with new comsat solution
Dubai UAE (SPX) Nov 11, 2015 -
McMurdo is extending its world leading Search and Rescue Ecosystem with the launch of the SARBE CommLink at the Dubai Airshow. SARBE CommLink is a next-generation digital wireless intercom system that helps emergency response/rescue teams accelerate time-to-rescue with superior audio quality, long-distance communications range and unique programming capability.
With SARBE CommLink, the McM ...
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Stanford researchers develop new way to measure crop yields from space
Stanford CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2015 -
As Earth's population grows toward a projected 9 billion by 2050 and climate change puts growing pressure on the world's agriculture, researchers are turning to technology to help safeguard the global food supply.
A research team, led by Kaiyu Guan, a postdoctoral fellow in Earth system science at Stanford's School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, has developed a method to est ...
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A polar vortex of Venusian color
Paris (ESA) Nov 11, 2015 -
On 9 November 2005, 10 years ago today, ESA's Venus Express spacecraft left Earth and began its 153-day journey to Venus. The craft then spent eight years studying the planet in detail before the mission came to an end in December 2014. One of the mission aims was to observe the planet's atmosphere continuously over long periods in a bid to understand its dynamic behaviour.
The atmosphere ...
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Bangladesh signs $250m satellite deal with French firm
Dhaka (AFP) Nov 11, 2015 -
Bangladesh on Wednesday signed a $250 million deal with French-Italian firm Thales Alenia Space in Dhaka to build the country's first communications satellite, officials said.
Thales Alenia Space will build the satellite called Bangabandhu-1 for the Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to be launched into space in 2017.
BTRC chairman Shahjahan Mahmud said the contra ...
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Early Earth's Haze May Give Clue to Habitability Elsewhere
Seattle WA (SPX) Nov 12, 2015 -
An atmospheric haze around a faraway planet - like the one which probably shrouded and cooled the young Earth - could show that the world is potentially habitable, or even be a sign of life itself. Astronomers often use the Earth as a proxy for hypothetical exoplanets in computer modeling to simulate what such worlds might be like and under what circumstances they might be hospitable to life. ...
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World nations reach landmark deal on using satellites to track flights
Geneva (AFP) Nov 11, 2015 -
World nations struck a landmark deal Wednesday on using satellites to track flights, which could prove key to preventing a repeat of the mysterious disappearance of flight MH370 in March 2014.
Countries reached an accord at a conference hosted by the UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU) that aimed to improve on the current civilian flight-tracking system which relies on ground-ba ...
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