Broadband data transmission from the imaging equipment of the new Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite successfully started on February 23. Survey results were delivered in real-time on High Rate Data (HRD) radio-link. To get access to data transmitted via HRD radio-link at 15Mbps for free the user only needs to have an X-band receiving ground station available. Most part of the UniScan stations developed by ScanEx RDC do not require any hardware updating to start receiving data from Suomi NPP — only software that is currently being tested needs to be uploaded. Read More
