February 2019
European system for global weather forecasting and climate change detection
... space with the aim of saving lives, preventing economic loss and supporting sustainable development and innovation. Polar orbiting satellites are vital for national meteorological services. As well as delivering unique infrared and microwave imagery...
08 May 2018
Raytheon builds small satellites for Department of Homeland Security
Raytheon Company has built two small, Polar Scout satellites for the U.S. Department of...with Rincon Research and Space Dynamics Laboratories to develop and produce the Polar Scout satellites. The smallsats are scheduled to be launched into lower Earth ...
27 May 2016
Scientists reveal Mars is emerging from an ice age
... Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona. The retreat and regrowth of polar ice on Mars is due to the increased tilt of the ... maximum thickness of 320 meters (1,050 feet) across the polar cap and is equivalent to a 60 centimetre thick global layer...
20 September 2019
Russia and China to cooperate on future Moon missions
... Administration were on hand to sign the cooperation documents in Russia on Tuesday. Russia’s Luna-26 orbiter spacecraft is a planned lunar polar orbiter that would also function as a telecomm relay between Earth and Russian land assets. It has been...
26 July 2016
Will PIPER be successful in confirming Inflation Theory?
... merger of two enormous black holes. Now however, it is the turn of another instrument, PIPER, the Primordial Inflation Polarization ExploreR, to search the skies for the signature of primordial gravity waves, but this time, by those produced...
16 September 2016
China launches its second space lab 'Tiangong 2' into orbit
...various space-related technologies, one of which is called POLAR. POLAR is a joint collaboration between Swiss, China and Polish ... Swiss, this international mission is dedicated to measuring the polarity of photons from gamma ray bursts (GRBs) to try...
