A new campaign marks an important step in preparing for how data from the Sentinel-1 European Radar Observatory will be used for applications such as land-cover mapping and crop management. Sentinel-1 is the first of the five missions that ESA is developing for the GMES initiative.
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A rain of navigation signals falls constantly upon the Earth from GPS and the initial satellites in Europe’s Galileo system, enabling an ever-increasing number of positioning and guidance services.
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AFP – Sri Lanka’s defence ministry on Saturday rejected satellite imagery issued by the United Nations in support of allegations that security forces shelled a civilian area.
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One week into their simulated Mars mission inside a special isolation facility in Moscow, the crew of six are reported to be in good spirits. ESA-selected crewmember Oliver Knickel sent the first diary entry since starting the 105-day stay for the Mars500 study.
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SPACE.com – He may notbe zooming through space at warp speed on the Starship Enterprise, but astronautMichael Barratt is the closest thing to a real-life Dr. McCoy aboard theInternational Space Station.
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After being offline for three months while Mars Express passed behind the Sun, the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) – known around here affectionately and unofficially as the ‘Mars Webcam’ – is back in action.
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The Wilkins Ice Shelf is at risk of partly breaking away from the Antarctic Peninsula as the ice bridge that connects it to Charcot and Latady Islands looks set to collapse. The beginning of what appears to be the demise of the ice bridge began this week when new rifts forming along its centre axis resulted in a large block of ice breaking away.
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On 28 April, the final qualification test firing of the third stage solid propellant motor for Europe’s new small launch vehicle took place at the Salto di Quirra Interforce Test Range in Sardinia, Italy.
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Following confirmation from Eurockot Launch Services that they will launch ESA’s SMOS mission on 9 September this year, the satellite has just been taken out of storage – providing an opportunity for the media to view the satellite before it is prepared for shipment to the launch site in Russia.
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SPACE.com – NASA has cutthe crew size for its new Orion spacecraft down from six seats to four in orderto keep the space shuttle replacement on track for a March 2015 debut.
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