Delta IV Rocket Launches from Cape Canaveral with US Military Satellite
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 20, 2012
A beautiful night for a launch Thursday evening as a heavy-lift Delta IV rocket thundered off the launchpad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, sending a broadband communications satellite into orbit for the US military. Observers at the launch site said they could see the rocket several minutes into the flight, witnessing the separation of [...]
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Clear Satellite View of Earth’s Newest Island
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 17, 2012
Satellite view from the Advanced Land Imager on the Earth Observer 1, showing a brand new volcanic island in the Red Sea. Credit: NASA Want to get away from it all? Here’s the newest deserted island on Earth. In late December, we reported on a volcanic eruption in the Red Sea that appeared to have [...]
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Tags: Clear, Earth’s, Island, Newest, Satellite, View
NASA’s TRMM Satellite Sees Deadly Tornadic Thunderstorms in Southeastern U.S.
Posted by brandoniswrite on December 5, 2011
Tornadoes are expected to accompany severe storms in the springtime in the U.S., but this time of year they also usually happen. When a line of severe thunderstorms associated with a cold front swept through the U.S. southeast on Nov. 16, TRMM collected rainfall data on the dangerous storms from space. NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring [...]
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Tags: Deadly, NASA's, Satellite, Sees, Southeastern, Thunderstorms, Tornadic, TRMM, U.S.
Weather and Climate Meet on NPP Satellite
Posted by brandoniswrite on November 1, 2011
NASA’s newest Earth-observing satellite soared into space aboard a Delta II rocket after liftoff on October 28, 2011. The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project, or NPP, blasted off at 2:48 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The satellite successfully separated from the [...]
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Tags: Climate, Meet, Satellite, Weather
Gilat Satellite Networks… A Million VSATs (SATCOM)
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 19, 2011
[SatNews] A major and most impressive milestone has been met by the Company… Satnews.com — Worldwide Satellite News
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PSLV launches Megha-Tropiques atmospheric research satellite for India
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 12, 2011
India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle has made its twentieth launch Wednesday morning, carrying the Megha-Tropiques atmospheric research satellite and three other spacecraft into orbit. Liftoff from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre was on schedule at 05:30 UTC (11:00 local time). Indian Mission: Megha-Tropiques is a one-tonne satellite which will be operated as part of a [...]
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Tags: atmospheric, India, launches, MeghaTropiques, PSLV, research, Satellite
NASA science satellite to plunge back to earth Friday
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 6, 2011
(ATLANTA, Ga.) — A NASA science satellite will plunge back to earth on Friday raining over twenty pieces of debris over an unknown region of our planet. NASA said on Thursday the satellite will not fall toward North America due to it’s orbital track. The satellite known as UARS for Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite is [...]
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NASA Estimates Final Resting Place for UARS Satellite
Posted by brandoniswrite on September 28, 2011
NASA provided a final update on when and where the decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) fell to Earth, and said it ended up falling in one of the most remote, watery places on Earth – a perfect spot for not causing damage or fatalities. The U.S. Air Force calculations put the 6-ton satellite’s death [...]
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NPP Satellite Prevents Gap in Critical Climate Data
Posted by brandoniswrite on September 14, 2011
The consequences of global warming are not only challenging, but they are far-reaching, which is why NASA maintains a strong scientific focus on climatic and global change research. As the growing human population continues to burn fossil fuels and release carbon into the atmosphere at an accelerated rate, we are faced with a complex problem: [...]
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Proton-M launches with Russia’s Ekspress-AM4 communications satellite
Posted by brandoniswrite on August 18, 2011
A Proton-M rocket, with the fiftieth Briz-M upper stage, is currently in the process of launching Russia’s Ekspress-AM4 communications satellite, after an early morning liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Having launched at 03:25 Thursday local time (21:25 UTC on Wednesday), the Proton-M completed its mission successfully, and the Briz-M is now performing the rest of [...]
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Tags: communications, EkspressAM4, launches, ProtonM, Russia’s, Satellite
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