Monday, August 22nd, 2016
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Formosat-2, Taiwan's first Earth observation satellite, has been decommissioned after 12 years of service — seven years longer than it was designed to survive. Read More at China Post
Thursday, August 11th, 2016
Weeks after an international court struck down its claims over the disputed South China Sea, a high resolution satellite has been successfully launched by China on Wednesday. Satellite aims to provide seamless view of seas inorder to...
Monday, August 8th, 2016
Qatari satellite operator Es’hailSat has been busy preparing for its second satellite, Es’hail 2, as well as the completion of a new, fully owned teleport. The company hopes the new infrastructure will not only cement its role...
Monday, August 8th, 2016
Space exploration was once considered the province of two superpowers, with only tertiary participation from other nations. But since the turn of the century, more and more nations are joining in. China and India, for example, have...
Monday, July 25th, 2016
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are jointly working on the development of a Dual Frequency (L&S band) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Imaging Satellite named as NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR). The...
Thursday, June 16th, 2016
Next week’s satellite launch will see the Indian Space Research Organisation’s resuming its Earth Observation (EO) satellite activity after a gap of around three years. The space agency has scheduled to fly Cartosat-2C, an Earth imaging satellite...
Monday, May 23rd, 2016
A major initiative in the war on climate change taken by Bengaluru-headquartered Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has led to all major global space agencies rushing to develop satellites that will monitor carbon emissions from each country...
Friday, May 6th, 2016
KOLKATA: NMDC Limited has signed a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ISRO's National Remote Sensing Centre on Thursday, opening up possibilities for use of satellite technology for mineral exploration and other related ventures. With this, NMDC will...
