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SMALL SATELLITES TO MONITOR EARTH MORE CAREFULLY

BERLIN, BIRD is a new project for using small explorer satellites for earth surface scanning by advanced infrared sensors was introduced by german agency Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft und Raumfahrt. They will be used even for exploring other planets. The small satellites are equipped with the most updated technologies aavailable to hold dimension and size of carriers used to launch them, lowering this...

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