Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
ENGLEWOOD, COLO., and BOSTON, MASS.— Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC and BridgeSat Inc. are pleased to announce a partnership to work towards developing a free-space optical communications system that will provide secure data downlinks from satellites to a proprietary ground network at faster speeds than equivalent radio frequency solutions. Under this partnership, Surrey will build
Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
Despite only being in orbit a matter of weeks, Sentinel-3A has already delivered some impressive first images. With the thermal-infrared channels now turned on, the satellite completes its set of firsts with a view of ocean features off the coast of Namibia. Arguably the most comprehensive of all the Copernicus Sentinel missions, Sentinel-3A carries a
Wednesday, March 30th, 2016
Richmond, BC – MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (“MDA” or the “Company”) (TSX: MDA), a global communications and information company, today announced that it has been awarded two contracts with a total value of several million dollars from DigitalGlobe Inc. to provide new ground station solutions to two international customers. The ground stations will receive
Friday, March 11th, 2016
Satellite-based EO is used across verticals such as defense and intelligence, weather, agriculture, natural resources, engineering and construction, media and entertainment, and tourism. Covered in this report: The report covers the present scenario and the growth prospects of the global satellite-based EO market for 2016-2020. To calculate the market size, the report considers the revenue
Thursday, March 10th, 2016
AVENTURA, FL — Orbital Tracking Corp., (OTCQB:TRKK) (the “Company”), a leading global provider of Mobile Satellite Solutions (MSS) for satellite based communications and asset tracking, including ground station construction, specialized engineering services and product design, announced today that it has developed its first global tracking product, a dual-mode asset tracker, which will be available in the
Wednesday, March 9th, 2016
CAPE cANAVERAL aIR foRCe station, Fla., March 9, 2016 — The U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) delivered the fifth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on March 3, prior to its expected May launch. The spacecraft will be the third MUOS satellite launched in a 16-month
Tuesday, March 8th, 2016
The three instruments on the Sentinel-3A satellite are now offering a tantalising glimpse of what’s in store for Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring effort. The latest images, which feature Europe and Antarctica, come from the sensor that records Earth’s radiant energy. Launched just three weeks ago, Sentinel-3A carries a suite of cutting-edge instruments to provide systematic
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
A DLR delegation led by Pascale Ehrenfreund visited South Korea and Japan from 21 to 27 February. The delegation cultivated and expanded the close cooperation with partner organisations. Two important partnership agreements were signed during the visits. DLR ground station receives Korean satellite data On 23 February, DLR and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)
Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
Climate change is much discussed, says Dr Simon Keogh of the Met Office, and to inform the conversation the Met Office uses historical scientific data including sea-surface temperature records, based on data from the Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR) series of satellite instruments. These instruments, designed and built in the UK, provided accurate infrared measurements
Monday, December 28th, 2015
British small satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is today marking the 10th year of in-orbit operations from its GIOVE-A satellite, the pathfinder mission for Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation programme. Since retirement from its original mission for the European Space Agency, SSTL has operated the spacecraft at 23,300km where it provides valuable data about the
