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NASA Marshall team on Earth enables science success in orbit

May 05, 2021 (SPX)

Recently a group of seven astronauts and cosmonauts completed the largest long-duration crew mission in the space station's history, and NASA astronaut Kate Rub...

NanoAvionics adds satellite twin to Aurora Insight global wireless spectrum mission

May 04, 2021 (SPX)

"Bravo" was sent into low Earth orbit (LEO) on 28 April onboard an Arianespace Vega rocket by Italian rocket maker Avio. It followed the launch of its twin sate...

China's Fengyun weather data freely available for EO applications

Apr 30, 2021 (SPX)

While FY satellites primarily focus on the atmosphere, they are capable of observing complex variables within the Earth-atmosphere system. Since the initial FY ...

Spotting cows from space

Apr 26, 2021 (SPX)

"There were about 10 undergrads involved in the project, spotting cows from space - not your typical student research and always amusing to see in the lab," McC...

Climate Has Shifted The Axis Of The Earth

Apr 22, 2021 (SPX)

The locations of the North and South poles aren't static, unchanging spots on our planet. The axis Earth spins around-or more specifically the surface that invi...

Europe keeps a space-based eye on climate change

Apr 22, 2021 (AFP)

But Jean-Noel Thepaut told AFP that the scale of the crisis really struck home in 2019 when he was in Paris with his family during the punishing heat wave that ...

California's worst wildfires are helping improve air quality prediction

Apr 22, 2021 (SPX)

Measurements of air quality depend largely on ground-based sensors that are typically spaced many miles apart. Determining how healthy it is to breathe air is s...

BlackSky Increases Capacity as Latest Satellite Enters Commercial Operations

Apr 21, 2021 (SPX)

This latest satellite was launched at 22:30 UTC on March 22, 2021, delivered first insights and began limited commercial operations less than 24 hours later. Fu...

NASA study predicts less Saharan dust in future winds

Apr 21, 2021 (SPX)

In June 2020, a "Godzilla" dust plume travelled from the Sahara, the planet's largest, hottest desert, across the Atlantic ocean to North America. While this ey...

NASA investigates vegetation

Apr 21, 2021 (SPX)

In the Amazon, NASA Earth scientists monitor forests and bring these data into the hands of local decision-makers. NASA data provides information about the clea...

Spotting greenhouse gas super-emitters

Apr 16, 2021 (JPL)

The data collected by the instrument will help to find super-emitters - the small percentage of individual sources that are responsible for a significant fracti...

Earth from Space: Space Coast, Florida

Apr 16, 2021 (ESA)

Cape Canaveral is a cape and city in Brevard County, in east-central Florida. The cape is separated from the mainland by the Banana River, Merritt Island and th...

Satellite imagery key to powering Google Earth

Apr 16, 2021 (ESA)

In the biggest update to Google Earth since 2017, users can now discover our planet in an entirely new dimension - time. With a new feature called Timelapse in ...

Satcom Global and AnsuR Technologies to deliver unique visual communications for EO market

Apr 14, 2021 (SPX)

AnsuR develops software solutions for use in challenging environments, supporting optimised and cost-effective transmission of important and often vital, visual...

Differences of cloud top height between satellites and ground-based radar revealed

Apr 13, 2021 (SPX)

These physical attributes determine the radiative forcing effect of a cloud, or how much incoming radiation that a cloud reflects back to space. Satellites and ...

Four satellites planned to start space-based network

Apr 13, 2021 (XNA)

Yang Tianliang, chief designer of the Hainan Earth-Observation Satellite Constellation System, said recently that four Hainan 1-series optical Earth-observation...

Russia to Launch New Meteor-M Weather Satellite in Late November

Apr 13, 2021 (Sputnik)

The chief of Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said last November that the Meteor-M satellite, numbered "2-3," was planned for launch ...

Methane emissions set another record in 2021, carbon dioxide also soars

Apr 07, 2021 (UPI)

Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration based these findings on an analysis of data from their global sampling network. The prelimin...

Tokyo, as you've never seen it before

Apr 07, 2021 (AFP)

Pairing a 3-D model with projection mapping, the Urban Lab project at Tokyo's Mori Building aims to display information about the Japanese capital in different ...

NASA, SpaceX to launch air quality sensor over North America

Apr 06, 2021 (UPI)

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled for a launch from Space Launch Complex 40 early Friday morning with a 119-minute launch window starting at 12:30 a.m. ED...