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TanDEM-X Sends Its First Images In Record TimeBonn, Germany (SPX) Jun 28, 2010 Already, with its first image acquisitions, TanDEM-X (TerraSAR-X add-on for Digital Elevation Measurement) has surpassed its twin satellite, TerraSAR-X. On 24 June 2010, only 3 days and 14 hours into the mission, the satellite sent its first image data back to Earth. The transmission was received by the German Aerospace Center ground station at Neustrelitz and processed to produce images. TanDEM-X looked down from an altitude of more than 500 kilometres above northern Madagascar, Ukraine and Mosco ... read more |
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London, UK (SPX) Jun 16, 2010The UK Space Agency is announcing Pounds 10.5M for the development of instruments to search for signs of past or present life on Mars. The instruments are part of the scientific payload on the ExoMars rover to be launched in 2018 as part of a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and US space agency NASA. ExoMars is a flagship project in the UK Space Agency's science and explora ... more 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 16, 2010Engineers with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., are running diverse trials with a test version of the radar system that will enable NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission to put the Curiosity rover onto the Martian surface in August 2012. One set of tests conducted over a desert lakebed at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., in May 2010 used flights wi ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 16, 2010The Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL's) Space Science Division is performing an intensive study of the Earth's upper atmosphere using a flotilla of NRL-built spaceflight experiments aboard four concurrent spaceflight missions, involving five satellites and the International Space Station. These coordinated observations utilize both in situ and remote sensors to measure the composition, tem ... more |
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Northrop Grumman Submits Proposal For NATO Alliance Ground SurveillanceMelbourne FL (SPX) Jun 15, 2010 Northrop Grumman formally submitted its proposal this week for the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) system - NATO's top and long-running acquisition program. A contract award is anticipated in October 2010. "This program has been a model of the value of transatlantic cooperation to meet the security challenges of the 21st century, and we are proud to lead an industry team of more than 25 companies from the 15 nations participating in this program," said Pat McMahon, sector vice president of ... read more |
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