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TerraSAR-X image of the month: The International Space Station (ISS)
On 13 March 2008, the International Space Station (ISS) passed across the field-of-view of Germany’s remote sensing satellite, TerraSAR-X, at a distance of 195 kilometres (122 miles) with a relative speed of 34,540 kilometres per hour (over 22,000 mph). The encounter lasted for about three seconds, but this brief moment was long enough for the synthetic aperture radar on TerraSAR-X to acquire an image of the ISS. |
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REXUS 7 and 8 student research rockets launched successfully
4 March 2010
On Thursday, 4 March 2010 at 11:15 CET, the research rocket Rexus 8 (Rocket EXperiment for University Students), a joint project of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC), launched from SSC’s Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, in Sweden. Students from the Technical Universities of Berlin and Munich, and from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm used the flight to conduct satellite communication experiments and also tested a newly-developed descent probe. |
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Iceberg collides with the edge of an ice shelf in the Antarctic
23 February 2010
Looking like a needle of ice and snow, iceberg B-15K was caught in the act by the German Aerospace Center's (DLR) TerraSAR-X satellite as it collided with an ice shelf in Atka Bay, Antarctica. Scientists had long been observing the 54-kilometre long and 5-kilometre wide iceberg was driven around Antarctica by ocean currents. Then, on 11 February 2010, it crashed into the edge of the ice shelf in Atka Bay. |
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