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NASA Launches Wind Study Rockets
There was a spectacular light show in the skies between the US East Coast and Bermuda early this morning [Mar.27] as NASA launched five rockets to measure a high-altitude jet stream some 65 miles above the Earth’s surface. The National Aeronautics & Space Administration rockets, known as the Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment [ATREX] released... Read more of this article
Bermuda Image: NASA’s Photo Of The Day
A high-altitude image of Bermuda as seen from Earth orbit was issued as National Aeronautics & Space Administration’s MODIS photograph of the day [Mar. 26] The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua satellite captured this true-colour image of Bermuda on March 16. MODIS is a key instrument aboard the Aqua and... Read more of this article
ABS Launches Partnership With Satmex
Regional satellite operators Asia Broadcast Satellite [ABS] of Bermuda and Hong Kong and Satmex of Mexico are joining forces to purchase four Boeing-built telecommunications satellites using a revolutionary design in a $400 million partnership, industry officials said March 12. According to a report in “Space News”, the agreement could catapult... Read more of this article
Video: NASA & Bermuda Agreement
NASA and the Government of Bermuda signed an agreement yesterday [Mar.7] to establish a temporary mobile tracking station on Cooper’s Island to support launches from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia including future commercial missions. Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Derrick Burgess and NASA Deputy Administrator Lori... Read more of this article
NASA Takes Aim At Bermuda In Study
It’s a case of launch madness for the National Aeronautics & Space Administration — which this month will be firing five rockets in the general direction of Bermuda as part of a study of high altitude winds. The US space agency — which signed an agreement with Bermuda yesterday [Mar. 7] to operate a mobile tracking station at... Read more of this article
NASA To Open Tracking Station
Future American missions to the international space station [pictured] launched from the US will be monitored by a new National Aeronautics & Space Administration tracking station located in Bermuda. The US and Bermuda governments today [Mar. 7] signed a four-year agreement for the temporary mobile station to be erected at Cooper’s Island Nature... Read more of this article
Video: Minister On Space & Sea Assets
[Updated with video] Bermuda space and seabed assets could be used to raise revenue Minister of Government Estates and Information Services Michael Scott said today [Feb.24] at the post-budget press conference. “The country assets are vast and varied, when I was Minister of Telecommunications you will know of the potential connected with the exploitation... Read more of this article
Bermuda Role In Historic Orbital Flight
A computer malfunction at the Bermuda tracking station on Cooper’s Island just six minutes before blast-off almost scrubbed John Glenn’s historic orbital flight around the earth on February 20, 1962. But the problem was quickly rectified and after three years of training, John Glenn rocketed into space aboard the National Aeronautics... Read more of this article
Rocket Tracked From Cooper’s Island
A tracking station in Bermuda served as an “ideal location” to track rockets, the French space agency said after a successful launch last month. In 2011 the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Government of Bermuda signed an agreement which authorized ESA to establish a temporary station on Cooper’s Island to track and receive telemetry... Read more of this article
Astrochimp’s 1961 Bermuda Splashdown
Chimpanzees are the forgotten link in America’s manned space programme — with the first, simian-piloted US space capsule to orbit the earth splashing down off Bermuda 50 years ago today [Nov. 29]. When the space programme was in its infancy in the early 1960s, the US National Aeronautics & Space Administration used chimps to test how... Read more of this article
Minister Meets Space Industry Executives
Minister of Environment, Planning and Infrastructure Strategy Walter Roban met this week in Paris with space industry executives. In meetings with international network operators [including SES, Iridium, International Launch Services], industry associations and members of the financial community who invest in the space sector, Minister Roban outlined... Read more of this article
Minister: Satellite Conference In Paris
Next week Minister of Environment, Planning & Infrastructure Strategy Walter Roban and Permanent Secretary Dr. Derrick Binns will attend the World Satellite Business Conference in Paris from September 11-16. “The Ministry is looking into the feasibility of creating a Space Enterprise Zone in Bermuda, building on our history of hosting a NASA tracking... Read more of this article
