Tag: satellite

• Monday, February 24th 2025 - 10:08 UTC

  FAU Officer highlights the importance of Uruguay having a space agency

  

  Uruguayan Air Force (FAU) Captain Mariana García underscored in a TV interview this weekend the importance of the South American country having a Space Agency while developing a national policy in this regard.

• Tuesday, October 4th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  Argentina to be able to place satellites into orbit

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Monday took center stage during the ceremony marking the start of the development of the satellite launcher Tronador II project at the Teófilo Tabanera Space Center in the province of Córdoba where a contract was signed between the National Commission of Space Activities (CONAE) and the company VENG.

• Monday, March 1st 2021 - 08:34 UTC

  First totally designed and manufactured Brazilian satellite Amazon-1, successfully launched from India

  

  A Brazilian Earth observation satellite soared to space aboard an Indian rocket late Saturday along with 18 passenger satellites from the United States and India. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launch, which carried Brazil's Amazonia-1 satellite into orbit, lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India.

• Monday, July 27th 2020 - 09:32 UTC

  Argentina ready to launch satellite to monitor logging of native forests mainly in Chaco

  

  Argentina plans to put into orbit a satellite with new precision technology sometime this week, to monitor the felling of its native forests round the clock and accurately measure forest carbon stocks in a bid to help curb climate change, scientists said.

• Thursday, March 26th 2020 - 08:21 UTC

  Falklands testing ground for satellite system that could revolutionize mobile connectivity

  

  A new satellite system that could revolutionize mobile connectivity has been tested successfully, setting a new world record in the process, according to its inventor. Tyghe Spiedel is the co-founder of Lynk, a company that builds very small satellites designed to communicate with standard mobile phones.

• Thursday, April 11th 2019 - 08:41 UTC

  Brazil planning on a second satellite for military and civil communications

  

  The Brazilian government is planning to purchase a second satellite for military and civil communications. Brazilian Air Force Executive Vice President Maj. Gen. José Vagner Vital, said the nation’s military wants to have a backup for the Geostationary Defense and Strategic Communications Satellite, SGDC-1.

• Saturday, January 19th 2019 - 09:18 UTC

  Argentina/China companies link up to launch satellites for an Earth-observation constellation

  

  An international space venture called Satellogic says it will have 90 satellites launched by a Chinese company to create an Earth-observing constellation. The first launch by the China Great Wall Industry Corp. under the newly announced deal, scheduled for later this year, will deliver 13 satellites to low Earth orbit on China’s Long March 6 rocket, Satellogic announced in a news release.

• Saturday, September 22nd 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Argentina ready to launch a satellite to monitor natural disasters and soil moisture

  

  Argentina is launching a new microwave imaging satellite to monitor natural disasters and soil moisture, in a long-term bid to bolster the farm sector, an industry that has historically been the backbone of the country’s economy.

• Friday, April 6th 2018 - 09:27 UTC

  Falklands: April sun outages with disruption to satellite reception

  

  The Falkland Islands have been advised by British Forces Broadcasting Services, that during April a series of sun outages which will cause disruption to satellite dish reception across the Falklands.

• Friday, October 17th 2014 - 07:17 UTC

  ARSAT-1 is Argentina's first designed and developed geostationary satellite

  

  The ARSAT-1 is Argentina first domestically designed and developed geostationary communications satellite, and its construction and successful launching, on Thursday, was defined by the government as “historic.”