Reuters remote sensing links

Thursday, 11 October, 2012

A slew of Reuters remote sensing links which is quite refreshing. Possibly worth pointing out that we are now in the middle of World Space Week, not that you’d know it! Amazingly it was established by the UN and has been running since 1999 - I’ve only just spotted it now thanks to a great info piece from the BBC about DMC. Anyway, back to the news:

SpaceX Rocket Glitch: big news that SpaceX had its first commercial cargo mission to the ISS, with a secondary mission to deploy a satellite. A partial engine failure on launch led to a failure to meet orbit and so deployment of the satellite in the wrong orbit. C’es la vie!
SpaceX Success: but the built in redundancy means that it still made its primary objective of ISS resupply.
China Mars ambitions: China has firmly set its sites on Mars with a plan to bring back a sample from the surface. Exciting times.

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