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RADARSAT-2 Website Launched
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This new RADARSAT-2 website has been launched. From the press release: "Designed for current and future RADARSAT users, the website provides a resource of information on such topics as: RADARSAT-2 Applications (guidelines and case studies), Satellite Construction and Testing Status, Polarimetry, the Science and Operational Applications Research (SOAR) RADARSAT-2 Program, and Products and Services.
The website is a collaboration between MDA, the Canadian Space Agency and the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing. "
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Industry: RADARSAT-2's Launch Delayed to March 2007
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MDA recently announced the launch date for RADARSAT-2 is now March 2007. The very short press release: "MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a provider of essential information solutions, announced today that the launch of RADARSAT-2 is now scheduled for March 2007. This aligns completion of the final integration and test with the recently secured launch window on the Soyuz II being provided by Starsem."
Industry: RADARSAT-2's Launch Successful
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From the Canadian Space Agency web site:
"Canada's next-generation commercial radar satellite RADARSAT-2 is scheduled to be launched from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on December 14, 2007 on a Soyuz vehicle. Canada's next-generation commercial radar satellite will offer powerful technical advancements that will enhance marine surveillance, ice monitoring, disaster management, environmental monitoring, resource management and mapping in Canada and around the world"
. See this web site for more information: http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/satellites/radarsat2/default.asp. Update: 12/17 22:44 GMT by S : Here's the press release about the successful launch. Vector One offers a bunch of links. I also added a few related links below.
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