E-letter: Curated Content

Pegasus, a winged rocket built by Orbital Sciences Corp., will carry NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft into orbit

To address the operational and technical issues with collecting images from the Landsat 8 satellite, scientists and engineers from around the world are participating in the Landsat Ground Station Operators Working Group and the Landsat Technical Working Group this week.

Azerspace 1, Azerbaijan's first telecommunication satellite, has been broadcasting state-run TV channels in test mode since it began trials after its February launch. That will change in July when

n an effort to connect people in rural and remote areas, help fill coverage gaps, and bring people back online after disasters, Google will release 30 high-tech balloons in the first trial of Project Loon.

On Monday, Thales Alenia Space signed a contract with the European Space Agency at the Paris Air & Space Show for ESA’s mission to Mars in 2016.

Details about the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia’s (MPDC) arrangement with the Naval Research Laboratory are developing as part of a lawsuit by people taken into custody during the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings.

ESA’s Proba V has become the first satellite to pick up aircraft tracking signals, allowing aircraft across the globe to be followed in flight from space.

NOAA’s GOES 13 weather satellite has officially returned to normal operations after it experienced technical problems last May.

Stephane Israel, Arianespace’s recently appointed chairman and CEO, has called for a fast-track modification of the Ariane 5 rocket that will enable it to launch larger electric-propelled satellites into orbit.

A NASA team has developed a new system that could allow them to test an “interplanetary GPS.”