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Space-based AIS experiment launched aboard ISS

Submit on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 22:54

An experiment aboard the International Space Station has begun tracking individual ships crossing the seas beneath. An experiment hosted by ESA’s Columbus module is testing the viability of monitoring global traffic from the Station’s orbit hundreds of kilometres up.

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