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List of satellite pass predictors Ground track example from Heavens-Above. An observer in Sicily can see the International Space Station when it enters the circle at 9:26 p.m. The observer would see a bright object appear in the northwest, which would move across the sky to a point almost overhead, where it disappears from view, in the space of three minutes.
The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission is an international project spearheaded by the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ( NGA ), an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense, and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ). NASA transferred the SRTM payload to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in 2003 ...
The U.S. Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System ( TDRSS, pronounced "T-driss") is a network of American communications satellites (each called a tracking and data relay satellite, TDRS) and ground stations used by NASA for space communications. The system was designed to replace an existing network of ground stations that had supported all of ...
In 1977, the first real time satellite imagery was acquired by the United States's KH-11satellite system. The most recent Landsat satellite, Landsat 9, was launched on 27 September 2021. [4] The first television image of Earth from space transmitted by the TIROS-1weather satellite in 1960.
Google has added new satellite images to make Maps more accurate and comprehensive, the company announced this week. Working with data from the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA's Landsat 7 ...
The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. Its official name, Space Transportation System ( STS ), was taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded ...
The Spaceborne Imaging Radar ( SIR) – full name 'Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR)', [1] is a synthetic aperture radar which flew on two separate shuttle missions. Once from the Space Shuttle Endeavour in April 1994 on ( STS-59) and again in October 1994 on ( STS-68 ). The radar was run by NASA's Space Radar Laboratory. SIR utilizes 3 radar frequencies ...
A new weather satellite will monitor both Earth and space-based weather. The GOES-U mission will gauge storm severity on Earth and track solar storms.