Build a Lego Hubble Space Telescope

On the interactive side of news, you can vote to have this fantastic representation of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) developed and sold by Lego. Fans submit the product (in this case the HST), and other fans vote for it on Lego Cuusoo’s site. If enough votes are made for the HST, then maybe you […]

NOAA’s low hanging problem–Part 4

Backstory The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) requested an Independent Review Team (IRT) look at NOAA satellite programs for possible problems. The IRT came back with issues and recommendations in two reports: one in 2012 and one in 2013. Within the report, the IRT pushed forward the possibility of no sun-synchronous LEO NOAA satellites […]

Minotaur escapes the maze

Last Tuesday night, Orbital launched a Minotaur rocket with 29 cubesats aboard. It seems everything went well. But perhaps just showing different pictures of the Minotaur’s ascent will be of interest to you–images like the one above? So here you go–the Washington Post has them all nice and posted for you. This launch is also […]

Tips for the GEOINT geek in your life

Taking a slight break for the NOAA series today. It’s good for both of us, really! NASA’s Earth Observatory team posted a few tips on 18 November which may be useful to those of you interested in understanding imagery better. You can go to their post, How to Interpret a Satellite Image: Five Tips and Strategies, […]

NOAA’s low hanging problem–Part 3

The past few posts have been about the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s “urgent” satellite need using the Independent Review Team’s (IRT) recommendation from the November 2013 report. In the last post, you were introduced to the systems status pages of satellite NOAA-16 in the hopes of showing you the satellite’s overall health. The only […]