Brussels — Nearly 60 nations signed a 10-year program to tighten international coordination on earth observation to include common standards and improved maintenance for ground-based sensors and reduced duplication of satellite capacity.
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Japan Readies Modified H-2A For Return to Flight
TOKYO — Japan’s workhorse H-2A rocket, having undergone a top-to-bottom review and significant modifications following a November 2003 failure, is set to return to flight Feb. 24 carrying a government weather and air traffic control satellite.
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Spain Studies Options For Military Observation Craft
PRIVATE tabstops: PARIS — The Spanish government has signed contracts with domestic industry teams to produce competing assessments of high-resolution radar and optical satellites for the Spanish Ministry of Defense, Spanish industry officials said. The work is expected to end in April, in time to be evaluated as part of Spain’s multiyear budget proposal to be set by June.
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Is the amazing 20th century NASA innovation, Landsat, which has now monitored the Earth’s land areas for over 30 years, about to end? As the former team leader for the Landsat Science Team, I once again am seriously concerned about the future of Landsat in the United States.
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Nations Lend Satellites to Tsunami Relief Effort
WASHINGTON — Remote sensing and communications satellite assets of Asia, Europe and North America have been marshaled in the international effort to facilitate recovery from the Dec. 26 tsunamis that devastated parts of South and Southeast Asia.
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Brazil To Propose $10 Million Space Station Contribution
Brazil has reaffirmed its commitment to participate in the international space station program with a planned contribution of $10 million over the next four years, according to the South American nation’s top space official.
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Unfinished Business
Having won a big 2005 budget increase for NASA — with a lot of help from Rep. Tom Delay (R-Texas) and Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) — and nearly unprecedented spending flexibility for his successor, NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe has decided to leave on a high note for the much greener pastures of academia. He has every right to do that, but he is leaving at a critical time in NASA’s history and dumping some major decisions squarely in the lap of the next administrator.
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Three Years in the Hot Seat
WASHINGTON — When Sean O’Keefe was sworn in as NASA administrator Dec. 21, 2001, at the top of his agenda was to bring fiscal discipline to a space agency that had recently allowed a $5 billion surprise to swamp its key program, an international space station already more than a decade behind schedule.
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CNES Sends Imagery, Inmarsat Ground Stations to Asia
PARIS — The French space agency, CNES, has begun providing archived images from its Spot Earth observation satellites to relief teams in Sri Lanka helping victims of the Dec. 26 earthquake and resulting tsunami, CNES announced Dec. 31.
