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31.10.2000
IKONOS-Archives

IKONOS data archived by SIE until mid of October

NEW: Minimum area for orders of archived data 25 km2 only !


Europe (47Kb)	subscene Switzerland

MFB-GeoConsulting - Your IKONOS Specialist

25.10.2000
International Space Station ISS

Discovery savely returned to Edwards Air Force Base

Discovery glided to a textbook landing under sunny skies at Edwards Air Force Base in California on Tuesday, completing a successful mission to the International Space Station. The crew spent more than two extra days in space because of unfavorable weather at Kennedy Space Center in Florida and at Edwards. Discovery touched down at 4 p.m. CDT and rolled to a stop on Edward's concrete runway at 4:0l, for a mission elapsed time of 12 days, 21 hours and 43 minutes.

Picture 1 and 2: Discovery during touch down

Picture 3 and 4: newly installed Z1 truss (for gyros, power supply and communication); picture 5: EVA at ISS;

For more information go to NASA-ISS
(select "space station")

24.10.2000
DMSP Night Image

Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Satellite images the Earth during night

(for the full resolution image (535Kb), click into the image)

for more information goto NASA - DMSP

24.10.2000
International Space Station ISS

Discovery's return again delayed

24.09.2000
Space Imaging Celebrates the IKONOS Satellite's First Year in Space

On 24 September 1999 IKONOS, the first private 1-m earth observation satellite was launched.
Top 10 Images Released:

You can down-load the following 10 images for free:

For down loading click into the images: Pyramids of Gizeh: 127Kb; Hollywood: 128Kb; Sydney Olympic Park: 215Kb; Hoover Dam: 117Kb; Millenium Wheel: 146Kb; Hongkong Harbor: 146Kb; San Francisco Harbor: 249Kb; Grozny (before the war): 150Kb; Grozny (after the war): 1184Kb; Mecca, Saudi Arabia: 181Kb

for more image-related information goto Space Imaging
Credit: "Space Imaging Inc. / MFB-GeoConsulting"

22.09.2000
NOAA-16 (NOAA-L) successfully launched

NOAA-16 transmits first image

for more information goto NOAA-16

18.09.2000
Position open

MFB-GeoConsulting - Geographic Imaging

MFB-GeoConsulting is specialized in digital image processing, especially in the analyses of Earth observation data as well as in their integration in geo-information systems. For strengthening our team we are looking for a

Remote Sensing Specialist

Job Describtion: project-related processing of different remote sensing and ancilliary data; consulting of clients in remote sensing; maintenance of the quick look and data archives
Profile: excellent know-how in satellite remote sensing and digital image processing; programming experience with C, C++ and html; experiences with NT systems; languages: german, english, french
We offer: fascinating, fast developing technological context; international contacts and projects; modern software environment; dynamic team

Interested, qualified persons can send their CV elecronically to MFB-GeoConsulting or by regular mail to the address at the left.

20.09.2000
International Space Station ISS

Atlantis savely landed in Cape Canaveral: 20-09-00, 09:56h

for more information go to NASA-ISS
(in the menue select "Space Station")

20.09.2000
Geosystems User's Group Meeting (GUGM)

FREE for all Swiss ERDAS customers with an SSS

Visit the traditional "ERDAS User's Group Meeting" for the German-speaking countries which is successfully organized by Geosystems (Germering) for the 9th time already. The City Hall of Germering can be reached in 20 Minutes from the city center of Munich and offers a professional environment for such an event.

Date: 13. - 15. November 2000
Registration: Please register via the Geosystems WEB-Interface: GUGM2000

Program: Professional presentations and workshops including: the future ERDAS Tool for the DEM generation; ERDAS users present first results using Expert Classifier and IMAGINE VirtualGIS; information concerning object-oriented image analysis using "eCognition"; eight application-oriented workshops show a full range of tips for successfully applying IMAGINE. The final program can be found at: Programm-GUGM2000

15.09.2000
Ariane-5 successfully launched

Ariane-506 (V130) places Astra-2B und GE-7 in orbit
ELA-3, Kourou, French Guiana, Sept. 14 at 22:54 GMT

(to get the full resolution (283Kb), click into the image)

For more information goto Arianespace

13.09.2000
IKONOS Observes Olympic Park in Sydney

to get the full resolution, click into the image
(ATTENTION: 3.86Mb !!!)

12.09.2000
International Space Station ISS

Atlantis crew undertakes first space walk, work at the exterior of ISS

Later: unloading nearly three tons of cargo from the orbiter and a Progress supply craft

For more information go to NASA-ISS
(select "space station")

11.09.2000
International Space Station ISS

Shuttle Atlantis successfully docks with ISS

Later: space wack and unloading nearly three tons of cargo from the orbiter and a Progress supply craft

(to get the full resolution (590Kb), click into the image)

For more information go to NASA-ISS
(select "space station")

08.09.2000
International Space Station ISS

Shuttle Atlantis successfully launched

Docking with Space Station planned for Sunday
Later: unloading nearly three tons of cargo from the orbiter and a Progress supply craft


Atlantis crew, 150Kb	today's launch, 116Kb

For more information go to NASA-ISS
(select "space station")

07.09.2000
Land-Use USA - Mexico

Different land-use patterns along the US-Mexican border based on ASTER (12-JUN-00);
(for the full resolution image (732Kb), click into the image)

for more information goto NASA - ASTER

04.09.2000
China Launches Third Remote Sensing Satellite
Taiwan is concerned

For more information go to Remote Sensing