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Introducing The A-TrainGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 28, 2010 Mention the "A-Train" and most people probably think of the jazz legend Billy Strayhorn or perhaps New York City subway trains - not climate change. However, it turns out that a convoy of "A-Train" satellites has emerged as one of the most powerful tools scientists have for understanding our planet's changing climate. The formation of satellites - which currently includes Aqua, CloudSat, Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) and Aura satellites - barrels acro ... read more |
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 TRMM Watches Richard Dump Rain On Belize NASA satellites have watched as Richard went through a couple of life-transitions over the weekend. Richard developed into a tropical storm last week, intensified into a hurricane and made landfall ... more | .. |
  Somalia Islamists splinter in major rift Just as the Islamist al-Shabaab militia in Somalia seemed on the verge of driving the Western-backed Transitional Federal Government out of the capital Mogadishu, the insurgents' offensive looks like being crippled by a split between rival factions. ... more | .. |
  Australia Super Hornet program moves ahead The Australian air force will take delivery of another three Super Hornet fighter jets by the end of the year, boosting its fleet to 14. ... more | .. |
 TanDEM-X And TerraSAR-X Imaging Etna While Flying In Formation The TanDEM-X and TerraSAR-X satellite pair have acquired their first image of Earth's surface, synchronised to the microsecond, while flying over Mount Etna in Italy. Scientists at the German Aerosp ... more | .. |
  DLR Becomes A Member Of The International Charter Space And Major Disasters The German Aerospace Center has become a member of the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters'. At an event in Paris to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its founding, Johann-Dietrich Wor ... more |
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Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 21, 2010This is the moment we have been anticipating for a long time; TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X finally have 'eye contact'. The final manoeuvre to adjust the close formation was performed on 13 October. Now, the two satellites are orbiting at a distance of less than 400 metres from one another. Over the last three months, the space operations centre has successfully demonstrated safe and precise for ... more 
Syracuse NY (SPX) Oct 21, 2010The U.S. Air Force has approved Lockheed Martin's preliminary design for its next-generation mobile, long-range surveillance and ballistic missile defense radar. The Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar (3DELRR) will serve as the principal ground-based sensor for long-range detection, identification, tracking, and reporting of aircraft and missiles for both the Air Force and th ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 20, 2010Typhoon Megi is now over the South China Sea as a Category 3 typhoon, gaining more strength after drenching the northern Philippines. NASA satellites saw the heavy rainfall and very high thunderstorm cloud tops from space, two indications of a powerful typhoon. Megi is a large system and will be a big rainmaker in southeastern China as moves toward a second landfall. The warm waters of the ... more |
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A New Pair Of Glasses To View EarthParis, France (ESA) Oct 18, 2010 Our view of Earth is set to become even sharper with new instruments to be carried on ESA's Sentinel-3 satellites. In many ways, it will be like looking at Earth through a new pair of glasses. Sentinel-3 is one of the five missions that ESA is developing for Europe's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative. Primarily, Sentinel-3 will deliver data for GMES services related to the marine environment, such as ocean-current forecasting services that need surface-temperature i ... read more |
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