Sentences with phrase «first imaging satellite»
IRAN Last year Iran reported the successful launch of its first imaging satellite, Rasad - 1, and the country does not want for motivation.
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Even as UrtheCast released its videos of major world cities, BlackSky Global announced its plan for a constellation of 60 low - flying imaging satellites, with the first to be launched next year.
The craft is outfitted with a 65 - pound solid - state imaging system for the first multispectrum views of the satellite and clearer views of the poles and the far side.
PAYPAL founder Elon Musk's civilian spaceflight company, SpaceX, achieved its first commercial success this week after its homegrown Falcon 1 rocket lofted a Malaysian Earth - imaging satellite into orbit.
He led the Galileo imaging investigations of Ida (resulting in the discovery of Dactyl, the first known satellite of an asteroid) and of the impact of Comet Shoemaker - Levy 9 into Jupiter.
HALCA, launched on Feb. 11 by Japan's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), is the first satellite designed for radio astronomy imaging.
The instruments also have the capability for imaging and spectroscopy in the wavelength... ▽ More AKARI, the first Japanese satellite dedicated to infrared astronomy, was launched on 2006 February 21, and started observations in May of the same year.
A pioneer of space archaeology, she has earned acclaim for being among the first to apply satellite imaging to locate archaeological sites in Egypt.
Prior to joining Education Northwest in 2007, Joy was the controller for Space Imaging, the nation's first commercial satellite provider of one - meter resolution imagery and worked closely on contracts for the Department of Defense.
Scientists first noticed the data years ago amid satellite measurements collected by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography (SCIAMACHY) instrument.
Using satellite imaging, Penn State researchers for the first time identified a major magma supply into a reservoir extending almost two miles from the crater of a volcano in Nicaragua.