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EarthNow is a Seattle-based startup company aiming to blanket the Earth with live satellite video coverage, initially aiming to provide services to governments and large-enterprise customers. [ 1 ] The company was founded in 2017 [ 2 ] and has backers including Bill Gates , SoftBank , Intellectual Ventures , Airbus , and OneWeb founder Greg Wyler .
The following films also include spacecraft that have also been called space stations by outside sources: Silent Running (1972), which features the space freighter Valley Forge [75] The Fifth Element (1997), which features the space liner Fhloston Paradise [76] WALL-E (2008), which features the generation ship Axiom [77]
These geosynchronous orbit satellites included Intelsat I (known as "Early Bird") and Intelsat II F-3 ("Canary Bird"). Both satellites were positioned over different parts of the Atlantic Ocean. Intelsat II F-2 ("Lani Bird") and NASA's ATS-1 were positioned over different parts of the Pacific Ocean to complete global coverage.
Four new emperor penguin colonies spotted in Antarctica by British Antarctic Survey scientists using satellite images to track bird poop from space. Emperor penguins are leaving poo stains that ...
At a cartography conference in 1976, he learned of the need for a map projection that would suit the special needs of Landsat satellite imagery. [2] He had recently been able to purchase a pocket calculator ( TI-59 ) of his own and set to work creating what became known as the space-oblique mercator projection , which he provided to the USGS at ...
Until now, scientists have held that these “chorus waves” form at points in space along the Earth’s magnetic field – which resembles that of a large bar magnet – out to about 51,000 km ...
BIRD (Bispectral and Infrared Remote Detection) is a satellite launched by ISRO in 2001 for DLR. This small (92 kg) boxlike system, with solar panels and two collectors on stub wings, has remarkable fire-detection qualities. It hosts a two-channel infrared sensor system in combination with a Wide-Angle Optoelectronic Stereo Scanner (WAOSS).
Big Bird from Sesame Street was close to being one of the casualties of the space shuttle Challenger. According to Caroll Spinney, the long-time puppeteer behind the costume, NASA had sent him a ...