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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015

Airbus Defence and Space: Successfully Launched Sentinel-2A will Provide Colour Vision of Earth

June 23, 2015 — Sentinel-2A is the first optical Earth observation satellite in the European Copernicus programme. On Tuesday, 23 June at 03.51:58 am CEST (22 June at 10.51:58 pm local time), a Vega launcher took off from the spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, carrying the satellite developed and built under the industrial leadership of Airbus Defence and Space

Wednesday, July 11th, 2012

Bluesky Purchases World’s First Fully Integrated LiDAR, Themal and Imagery System

Aerial surveying company Bluesky has purchased a state of the art airborne mapping system which includes a LiDAR and fully integrated thermal sensor and high resolution camera.  The system has been developed by Optech and combines the Orion M300 LiDAR, Long Wave Infrared thermal sensor and a CS-10000 camera.