[talk-au] Hikers on this list?

[John Smith]

Pity it's not going to be available for some time...

"Germany's new TanDEM-X radar satellite is scheduled to lift off from
Baikonur Cosmodrome at 04:15 Berlin time on 21 June — that's 10:14 pm
Eastern today (20 June). Flying in close formation with its twin
satellite, TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X will generate the most consistent and
highest-resolution digital elevation map ever of the Earth — 12m =
40ft. pixel pitch. It will take three years to image all 150 million
square kilometers (58 million square miles), in the process generating
more than 350 TB of raw data. Here's where to go as the time
approaches for live streaming."

http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/06/20/1651227/German-Radar-Satellite-Lifts-Off-Tonight?from=rss