Earth-imaging satellites

“For the public, the series provides better hurricane tracking, improved thunderstorm/tornado warning lead time and improved imaging of the Earth's weather, ... Other GOES series satellites are scheduled to launch in the coming years as to provide a continuous coverage if any satellite becomes inoperable, Schield said.

The spacecraft's specifications, including its imaging performance, are kept secret by the Japanese government. But the government has acknowledged the satellite will join a fleet of Information Gathering Satellites operated by the Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center, which reports directly to the Japanese ...

The instrument, built by Harris Environmental Solutions, is far more advanced than what was found on the previous generation of weather satellites. GOES-S be able to gather more imaging data than its predecessors, it will be able to do so with 500 percent greater speed and with a four-fold increase in ...

The IGS system consists of both optical and radar imaging satellites, with the programme led by Japan's Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Centre. ... The H-IIA, which has been used for all IGS launches to date, is Japan's workhorse rocket for deploying a varied array of missions into Earth orbit and beyond.

Kestrel Eye is the first on-orbit demonstration of a Defense Department satellite “that may someday provide enhanced situational awareness to users on the ground through direct communications with tactical satellites under theater control,” Harkins said. “While we do not have a constellation of these in ...

SpaceX could potentially milk that even more if it decides to enter the growing Earth-imaging market or find other tasks for its satellite fleet. The company previously applied for a NOAA license which would have allowed SpaceX to install a video imager to its prototype internet satellites. The plan was ...

And it can issue a directive barring imaging over a given location. The law regulating that imaging, though, was first passed before satellite imaging really existed as an industry. And according to insiders, it's been keeping satellites down—even as thousands more of them are set to launch in the next ...

[In Photos: Spotting Satellites and Spaceships from Earth]. "On the afternoon of Jan. 30, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland, successfully collected telemetry data from the satellite," NASA officials said in a statement. "The signal showed that the space craft ID was 166 — the ID for ...