RADAR DAILY - Radar And Detection Systems News

AEROSPACE NASA balloon mission captures electric blue clouds

A recent NASA long-duration balloon mission observed these clouds over the course of five days at their home in the mesosphere. The resulting photos, which scientists have just begun to analyze, will help us better understand turbulence in the atmosphere, as w... more

MILSPACE COMMS MUOS-5 Secure Communications Satellite to launch June 24

The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin are ready to launch the fifth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) secure communications satellite, MUOS-5, here on Friday, June 24, aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. The launch window is between 10:30 a.m. and 11... more

EARTH OBSERVATION SpaceDataHighway: first laser transmission of an image taken by the Sentinel 1A satellite

EDRS-A, the first relay satellite for the EDRS-SpaceDataHighway programme, launched on 30 January 2016, successfully transmitted the first image taken by the Sentinel 1A radar satellite. The mage, taken over La Reunion Island and its coastal area, was transmit... more

SPACE INDUSTRY Ramon.Space and Radisys collaborate on space-resilient 5G solutions

This deployment involves placing advanced 5G RAN nodes on orbiting satellites, enabling direct, high-speed, low-latency communication with devices across the globe. These gNBs aim to enhance terrestrial 5G networks by extending coverage to underserved and remo... more

EARTH OBSERVATION DMCii increases downlink capacity with Svalbard ground station facilities

DMC International Imaging (DMCii) has signed an agreement with Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) that will increase the volume of imagery acquired and the speed in which it can be delivered. The new facilities in Svalbard have allowed DMCii to receive 30% mo... more

SPACE INDUSTRY Commercial Space Exec: Hands-On Work Can Launch Careers

"That was a dream come true for me to be able to work on the space shuttle program while I was just out of my sophomore year," he said, at the university's latest Presidential Speaker Series event. That real-world experience propelled Grinnell, who is now Virg... more

UAV NEWS Teaching drones about the birds and the bees

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) of the future will be able to visually coordinate their flight and navigation just like birds and flying insects do, without needing human input, radar or even GPS satellite navigation. A research group at the University of Quee... more

EARTH OBSERVATION The Biomass satellite and disappearing 'football fields'

Our forests and global climate are closely linked. Forests are huge carbon stores. They cover around one third of the world's surface, but they store about half of the carbon bound on Earth. With their needles and leaves, they filter the carbon dioxide in the ... more