Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
For its revolutionary navigation system Wikitude Drive, which uses augmented reality to superimpose driving directions over live street video on smartphones, the Salzburg start-up Mobilizy took home the €20,000 grand prize in the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2010. Wikitude Drive also won the prize for the best application leveraging EGNOS, the European augmentation system that
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
ESA – Farmers traditionally keep a close eye on their fields, but a new ESA-led project seeks to build on their vigilance with monitoring from space. The TalkingFields initiative is now showing how to combine satellite observation with satellite navigation to benefit European farmers. Sustainable food production and food security are critical challenges. TalkingFields will help by using
Monday, October 18th, 2010
ESA – The Gulf of Mexico oil spill couldn’t have occurred at a worse time for bluefin tuna: they had come to the area – a major spawning ground – to produce offspring. Satellites are helping assess the damage from the disaster on the fish’s spawning habitat. Read More
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
ESA PR 2010-23 In 2000, the International Charter ‘Space and Major Disasters’; was set up on the initiative of ESA (European Space Agency) and CNES (France’s Centre national études spatiales). Its purpose is to make it easier for emergency services to access satellite data in the event of natural or man-made disasters. Read More
Friday, October 8th, 2010
ESA – This Envisat radar image shows internal waves in the Strait of Gibraltar, between the southern coast of Spain and the northern coast of Morocco. The strait is the only connection between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, making it a place of intense study in order to understand the exchange of water between the two.
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
The results from ESA’s SMOS satellite have been impressive, but the mission has been bugged by patches of interference from radar, TV and radio transmissions in what should be a protected band. Painstaking efforts to reduce these unwanted signals are now paying off. Read More
Monday, October 4th, 2010
ESA – Members of the space and oil and gas sectors have come together in the first meeting of its kind to discuss current Earth observation capabilities and the evolving information requirements within the oil and gas industry. Read More
Friday, October 1st, 2010
NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) on Friday agreed to update the International Space Station launch schedule. The target launch dates for the last planned space shuttle flight, STS-134 on Endeavour, will be Feb. 27 and the Automated Transfer Vehicle-2 (ATV-2) will be Feb. 15. Read More
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
Following recovery from a glitch that prevented ESAs GOCE gravity mission from sending any scientific data to the ground, the satellite has been gently brought back down to its operational altitude and resumed normal service – delivering the most detailed gravity data to date. Read More
Saturday, September 11th, 2010
Envisat captures sand and dust from the Sahara Desert blowing west across Mauritania (top), Senegal (middle) and Guinea Bissau (bottom) and over the North Atlantic Ocean before turning in a northerly direction just above the Cape Verde islands. Read More
