Advanced satellite technology has saved more than 18,000 lives over the past 25 years in search and rescue operations worldwide.After nearly 25 years in service, SARSAT, or Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking, is still saving lives-over 1,000 every year worldwide. SARSAT was developed by Canada, France, the U.S., and Russia in 1979. It is the [...]

Satellites help farmers determine when to fertilize, generating cost savings and protecting our environment.Farmers like to call it “precision farming”-using satellites and other remotely sensed data to evaluate crops and soil moisture. These advanced farming techniques are saving money and preventing unnecessary chemicals from entering our fragile ecosystem. A new Saskatchewan project is also using [...]