2005's highest engineering honors awarded
... top secret project was designed to observe Soviet missile capabilities during the Cold War. Since the 1960s, the diverse applications of Corona's remote sensing technologies have improved the quality of life worldwide. Images of the Earth from space are now used for mapping unexplored regions, evaluatin......cle, which is actually a converted SS-19 ballistic missile launcher with an additional Breeze-KM upper stage. CryoSat will be the first ESA mission launched on Rockot followed by the Earth Explorers GOCE (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer) in 2006 and SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Sal...