https://spacewatch.global/tag/terrasar-x/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Tue, 10 Oct 2023 06:00:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/terrasar-x/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2023/10/thailand-and-airbus-successfully-launch-theos-2-satellite/ Tue, 10 Oct 2023 06:00:33 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=51610 The Airbus-built THEOS-2 Earth observation satellite has been successfully launched on a Vega rocket from Kourou, Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana. The Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency of Thailand (GISTDA) selected Airbus as a partner for its next-generation national geo-information system in 2018.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/12/european-and-japanese-sar-imaging-satellites-lead-the-way-in-arctic-climate-change-research/ Tue, 24 Dec 2019 06:00:06 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=17975 Spare a thought this Christmas for researchers hunkered down on their Polarstern icebreaker, adrift in the frozen Arctic Ocean. Subjected to temperatures as low as -45 C and the perpetual darkness of the polar winter, they are willing participants in MOSAiC - the world's largest and longest polar research expedition.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2019/07/airbus-expands-satellite-imagery-service-offering-with-sstls-s1-4-vision-1-capability/ Tue, 02 Jul 2019 05:00:50 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=14878 Airbus has enlarged its high-resolution imagery portfolio following an agreement to leverage capacity from the S1-4 satellite built by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL). This new imagery offer called Vision-1 delivers full end-to-end imaging operations to Airbus’ customers.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/11/japans-pasco-introduces-insar-package-using-alos-2-earth-observation-satellite/ Fri, 02 Nov 2018 06:00:56 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=11103 PASCO, a Japanese provider of satellite-based geospatial information, has signed an agreement to distribute data and images acquired by the ALOS-2 Earth observation (EO) satellite which is owned by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). As part of this agreement, PASCO will start selling a new InSAR Package service to support different users’ needs for analysis and monitoring over time.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/06/thailands-theos-2-will-be-built-by-airbus/ Fri, 29 Jun 2018 05:00:49 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=9217 In order to accelerate its priorities, the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency of Thailand (GISTDA) has selected Airbus as partner for its next-generation national geo-information system.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/03/azerbaijan-seeks-satellite-cooperation-saudi-arabia/ Thu, 29 Mar 2018 04:00:53 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=7986 The Azeri ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Shahin Abdullayev, has told reporters that Azerbaijan seeks to enter into cooperative agreements with Saudi Arabia in satellite technology, petrochemicals, energy, agriculture, and tourism. “We launched two satellites and we reached advanced levels in this sector. We aim to be among the top producers of satellite parts,” Ambassador Abdullayev told the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper on 23 March 2018.]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/02/satellites-mediterranean-spacex-successfully-launches-spains-paz-reconnaissance-satellite/ Mon, 26 Feb 2018 06:00:45 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=7637 SpaceX successfully launched Spain’s high-resolution synthetic aperture radar  (SAR) PAZ reconnaissance satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on Thursday, 22 February, 2018. The successful launch of PAZ is the latest by a Mediterranean country and intensifies the space-based surveillance and reconnaissance competition of the geopolitically important sea. The launch, which included two other […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/11/spains-paz-satellite-ready-launch-eyes-mediterranean/ Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:00:57 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=6444 The high resolution radar, Earth observation PAZ satellite, intended primarily to address civilian surveillance needs and to cover many different applications including defence and security, will say its final goodbye to Spain. It will be shipped in December 2017 to its launch site in Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA. Airbus and Hisdesat, the Spanish […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/04/paz-extend-airbus-radar-satellite-constellation-improved-monitoring-capabilities-end-2017/ Fri, 14 Apr 2017 07:15:57 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=4006 PAZ, the satellite owned by the Spanish company Hisdesat, will soon increase the monitoring resources of the Airbus radar satellites constellation. Following its launch during the last quarter of 2017, PAZ will be positioned in the same orbit as the German owned TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X satellites and form a high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2017/04/u-s-company-spaceflight-industries-launches-blacksky-spectra-satellite-imagery-service/ Mon, 10 Apr 2017 06:00:24 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=3958 Spaceflight Industries revealed on April 5, 2017, BlackSky Spectra, its on-demand satellite imagery service which enables customers to discover archive images and task new images from 13 high-resolution imaging spacecraft, all from one convenient web platform. BlackSky Spectra enables customers to easily look at the planet across every spectrum, from visual imagery to multi-spectral data […]]]> https://spacewatch.global/2016/10/turkey-offers-build-satellites-azerbaijan-share-satellite-data/ Mon, 10 Oct 2016 11:51:18 +0000 http://spacewatchme.com/?p=1686 Turkey is to build new satellites for its near neighbour Azerbaijan once its current satellites in orbit reach the end of their operational lifetimes. Azerbaijan currently operates its Azersky and Azerspace-1 satellites in both low-earth and geostationary orbits (160-2,000 kilometres altitude and 36,000 kilometres altitude respectively). Azersky is an earth observation satellite with two metres […]]]>