a russian / american joint venture to launch orbital payloads from a ship. 20 satellites launched so far.
Tag: satellite
Inauguration Day
8h latency. if we cut all the manual fiddling out of the loop we can certainly do better.
Wide-angle satellite surveillance
Researchers have come up with a wide-angle camera that can image a 10km2 area from an altitude of 7.5km with a resolution better than 50cm per pixel.
GlobCover
The most detailed portrait ever of the Earth’s land surface are now available to public with the release of the first GlobCover products
IP satellite
Although satellites have been passively relaying IP traffic since the 1970s, the use of an orbiting satellite as an active part of the Internet is a more recent development. Once you have smarter satellites, you can treat them as not completely separate but as part of your IP network and manage them as you do your IP networking assets on the ground.
Google Earth Archaeology
I found more in the first 5, 6, 7 hours than I’ve found in 25 years of traditional field surveys and aerial archaeology.
2007-01-07: overview article. a bit thin on detail, unfortunately.
2014-05-05: holy shit:
A study of Cold War spy-satellite photos has tripled the number of known archaeological sites across the Middle East, revealing 1000s of ancient cities, roads, canals, and other ruins.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 