Icarus starts first global research project 🐦👍🚀 With the satellite-based animal monitoring system, researchers want to explore the collective knowledge of the animals on earth. The cooperation project of the @maxplanckgesellschaft, @roscosmosofficial and @germanaerospacecenter has successfully completed a test phase lasting several months. During this phase, the animal transmitters as well as the system components on the ground and on board the International Space Station ISS were examined. The first cross-continental scientific pilot project is set to begin in mid-September. The Icarus scientists want to track several thousand blackbirds and thrushes in #Europe, #Russia, and North #America from space with the help of small transmitters attached to the backs of the birds. ———————————————- Icarus startet erstes globales Forschungsprojekt 🐦👍🚀 Mit dem satellitengestützten System zur Tierbeobachtung wollen Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler das kollektive Wissen der Tiere auf der #Erde erforschen. Das Kooperationsprojekt…