https://spacewatch.global/tag/kuril-islands/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Mon, 29 Jul 2024 06:00:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/kuril-islands/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2024/07/earthcare-multispectral-imager-returns-contextual-cloud-images/ Mon, 29 Jul 2024 06:00:41 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=56325 The European Space Agency (ESA)'s EarthCARE satellite has delivered the first images from its multispectral imager, showcasing various clouds and cloud temperatures worldwide. This comes after the satellite, launched less than two months ago, returned images from two of its four instruments.  ]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/12/japan-to-launch-electro-optical-igs-reconnaissance-satellite-in-january-2020/ Mon, 23 Dec 2019 06:00:40 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=17979 Japanese satellite and space industry giant Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has announced that an MHI H-IIA satellite launch vehicle will send Japan's eighth Intelligence Gathering System (IGS) reconnaissance satellite into orbit from the Tanegashima Space Centre in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwest Japan, on 27 January 2020.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/03/japan-launches-latest-igs-reconnaissance-satellite-monitor-north-korean-chinese-russian-threats/ Thu, 01 Mar 2018 06:00:11 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=7696 This content is for members only. Visit the site and log in/register to read.]]>