Space Station keeps watch on world?s sea traffic

As the ISS circles Earth, it 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.

Link: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMILOPK2AG_index_0.html

Time: 15. Jun. 2010

Feed: ESA Top News

Topics: station, traffic