Washington, D.C., May 15, 2014—A new NASA Earth-observing mission that will measure ocean winds from the International Space Station has arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin final preparations for launch. The International Space Station...
NEANY Expands Partnership with Visual Intelligence to Deploy iOne M+ 108 Megapixel Multispectral Sensor in Arrow UAVs
Hollywood, Md., Houston and Orlando, Fla, May 12, 2014—NEANY has expanded its partnership agreement with Visual Intelligence to deploy Visual Intelligence’s iOne M+ 108 megapixel metric mapping system in NEANY’s flagship unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), the Arrow....
Northrop Grumman, RMIT University Studying Operation of Unmanned Aircraft in Australia
CANBERRA, Australia, May 12, 2014—Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is collaborating with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, to study airworthiness requirements for operating unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in Australia. The...
Northrop Grumman, Yamaha Motor, U.S.A., Collaborate on Unmanned Helicopter System
SAN DIEGO, May 8, 2014—Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A., have agreed to work together to develop and market an innovative small, unmanned autonomous helicopter system. Photos accompanying this release can be found here:...
OGC Adopts “I15” Standard, Providing ebRIM Extension to OGC Catalog Services Interface Standard
May 12, 2014—The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) membership adopted the OGC standard, "OGC I15 (ISO19115 Metadata) Extension Package of CS-W ebRIM Profile 1.0." The OGC Catalogue Services Standard establishes a general framework for implementing catalogue...
Textron Systems Unmanned Systems Delivers 4,500 Monthly Mission Hours
HUNT VALLEY, Md., May 19, 2014—Textron Systems Unmanned Systems, a business of the Textron Systems segment of Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT), announced today a new task order under the U.S. Navy Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Services program that is...
Thales Alenia Space to Build Koreasat-7 and Koreasat-5A Satellites
Cannes, France, May 12, 2014—Thales Alenia Space announced today that it has signed a contract with the Korean satellite service operator KT Sat, subsidiary of KT Corporation, to build two telecommunications satellites, Koreasat-7 and Koreasat-5A, winning the...
ESA Satellite Finds Sharp Increase in Antarctic Ice Loss
Three years of observations from the European Space Agency's CryoSat satellite reveal the Antarctic Ice Sheet is losing 159 billion tons of ice annually, twice as much as when last surveyed.
Making Sure CryoSat Data Are Reliable
Enduring the bitter Arctic cold out on the sea ice, scientists are part of an international effort to ensure the European Space Agency's CryoSat satellite delivers a true picture of Earth's changing ice.
Is El Niño Forming? Satellites Say Yes
Data from ocean-observing satellites indicate that El Niño conditions appear to be developing in the equatorial Pacific similar to those of May 1997, a year of the most potent El Niño events of the 20th century.
