E-letter: Curated Content

South Korea has announced its plans to strengthen its surveillance system against North Korean electronic jamming signals, which have targeted the South’s civilian facilities in the past.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has announced its oldest Earth observation satellite Radarsat-1 is unlikely to recover fully from an anomaly experienced on March 29.

NASA has announced a $200 million grant to fund the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project.

A new Swiss company is planning to build a spaceport to offer cheap access to orbit for small satellites. Swiss Space Systems (S3) is working on an unmanned suborbital mini shuttle based on a previous European design called Hermes.

The Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) is planning to send five military reconnaissance and Earth observation satellites into space, according to reports. The new satellites would join Turkey’s Gokturk-2 Earth observation satellite launched last December.

A team of scientists from Boston University is attempting to introduce the “plug and play” interface – ubiquitous in personal computing – to the satellite design arena.

China has announced it will launch the first satellite of its high-resolution Earth observation system in April.

NASA has agreed to launch a satellite designed and built by a group of students from the University at Buffalo. The shoebox-sized Glint Analyzing Data Observation Satellite (GLADOS) took the team two years to complete and is designed to track the size and orbit of debris circling our planet.

A new app from Southern Stars for Apple devices allows users to access a complete database of spacecraft orbiting Earth.

The All Nations University College in Koforidua, Ghana, has announced its plans to launch its first satellite. “CANSAT,” built by the Intelligent Space System Laboratory of the university, is expected to sensitize prospective students who wish to pursue a career in the Space Science and Satellite Technology program the university started offering last year.