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ESA: Contract for Meteosat Third Generation Lightning Imagers

A new era of meteorological satellites under development has begun with a ceremony held at the Palazzo Vecchio town hall in Florence, Italy.

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Fri, 08/02/2013 - 15:14
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48.8481
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2.30457
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SATELLITE 2013: Bridging the Gap between Today and Tomorrow

Time and Duration
Registration Deadline: 
Fri, 08/03/2013
Venue City: 
Washington D.C.
Basic Information
Date: 
18/03/2013 - 21/03/2013
Venue: 
Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Venue Country: 
United States
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SATELLITE 2013
Language of event: 
English
Satellite 2013

CONFERENCE: March 18 - 21, 2013

EXHIBITION: March 19 - 21, 2013

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37.0779
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113.583
Processed on Feb 4th 2013

HOT looks back on a successful year 2012

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Over the last two and a half years the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) has been continuously ensuring access to geodata in order to foresee and respond to natural disasters and crises.

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Thu, 03/01/2013 - 10:20
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Galileo: First navigation signals transmitted by FM3

Europe’s third Galileo satellite has transmitted its first test navigation signals back to Earth.

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Fri, 07/12/2012 - 15:31
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ESA
Processed on Dec 7th 2012

Mexico to launch first state-funded satellite

The Bicentenario satellite, the state-run Mexsat system's first launch into space, is ready for lift-off next month and will begin operating in orbit in late January 2013, the Mexican government an

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Thu, 15/11/2012 - 08:56
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Firstpost World
Processed on Nov 15th 2012

ESA: Ariane 5's sixth launch in 2012

On 10 November, an Ariane 5 launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites, Eutelsat-21B and Star One-C3, into their planned

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Wed, 14/11/2012 - 10:21
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ESA
Processed on Nov 14th 2012

GOES-13 returned to operations

The GOES-13 spacecraft returned to full operations on Thursday, October 18, 2012. The satellite had been taken out of service due to technical problems in late September.

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Fri, 19/10/2012 - 10:45
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Satnews Daily
Processed on Oct 19th 2012

CATHALAC analyses Mangrove Cover of Guatemala

In collaboration with the Ministry of Environment & Natural Resources (MARN) in Guatemala, UN-SPIDER's Regional Support Office CATHALAC (Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and

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Mon, 08/10/2012 - 08:32
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SERVIR (Spanish)
Processed on Oct 8th 2012

UN-SPIDER Newsletter 2/12: Crowdsource Mapping

Issue Date: 
Tue, 02/10/2012

Crowdsource Mapping aims at an improved disaster management: The idea is to co

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Crowdsource Mapping aims at an improved disaster management: The idea is to collect data from as many on-site sources as possible and translate that real-time data into maps.
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UN-SPIDER Newsletter on Crowdsource Mapping
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Indra and ESA accomplished the determination of definitions

Indra agreed with the European Space Agency (ESA) the definition of the requirements for the system that will manage the Spanish satellite Ingenio.

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Fri, 28/09/2012 - 10:20
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SatNews
Processed on Sep 28th 2012