Sentences with phrase «imaging satellite into»
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.
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A series of seven sharp images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite instrument, taken over 35 days, showed Larsen B splintering into hundreds of bergs on the order of 130 meters wide, 160 meters deep and a kilometer or more long.
The environmental data sets from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and the MODIS sensors will continue into the next decade with data provided by their follow - on missions: the Global Precipitation Measurement mission to launch in early 2014, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership satellite currently in orbit.
In early February, it made two major announcements: It had folded Landsat 8 and Sentinel - 2 data into its archive and it had initiated a deal to acquire Google's Terra Bella satellite imaging division and its seven SkySats, which have the capability to image at 0.7 meters.
To perform this trick, you don't have to hack into the CIA's spy - satellite imaging system.
You can put sensors into the soil, or you can do satellite imaging and mapping, but you never really know what a particular plant is detecting as the water potential.»
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.
The launch was primarily designed to bring the PAZ satellite to orbit (which was deployed as planned into a low Earth, sun - synchronous polar orbit), a satellite for a Spanish customer that's designed to provide geocommunications and radar imaging for both government and private commercial customers.
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.