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26 August 2010
China successfully launched a mapping satellite, "Mapping Satellite - I," from the northwestern Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 3:10 p.m. (Beijing time) Tuesday. The satellite, ...
24 August 2010
The Indus River at Sukkur was at exceptionally high levels on August 18, 2010, when the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA’s Terra satellite ...
12 August 2010
On 22 July 2010, researchers at the German Aerospace Center facility in Oberpfaffenhofen published the first 3D images from the TanDEM-X satellite mission. Just one month after the launch of TanDEM-X, which took place on 21 June 2010, DLR researchers have created the first digital elevation (...)
12 August 2010
On 10 August 2010, the German Aerospace Center inaugurated its first satellite data receiving station in Inuvik, Canada. DLR will use the new ground station particularly to receive data for the German TanDEM-X satellite mission (...)
12 August 2010
China put into orbit on Tuesday another remote sensing satellite, China’s Xinhua news agency reported. The Yaogan X was launched aboard a Long March 4C carrier rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center ...
13 July 2010
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) workhorse, Polar satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C15), did it again on Monday with a spectacular multiple-satellite launch that came as a big morale-booster for ISRO scientists, since GSLV-D3’s failure last April. Led by the latest 694 kg Indian (...)
28 June 2010
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28 June 2010
South Korea’s first geostationary ocean weather satellite has been launched into Earth’s orbit from Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana on 27 June, the government said Sunday. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said the Chollian communication, ocean and meteorological (...)
25 June 2010
Already with its first acquisitions TanDEM-X surpasses its "twin" TerraSAR-X: on June 24th, 2010, just three days and 14 hours after its launch on June 21st at 04:14 hrs from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, TanDEM-X has delivered the first (...)
23 June 2010
Israel on Tuesday, 22 June, launched a spy satellite from a base in the south of the country, the defence ministry said, with the device reportedly capable of monitoring arch-foe Iran. Ofek-9 (Horizon-9), like its predecessors in the Ofek series, is (...)