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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...

Hawkeye 360 announces commissioning of second satellite cluster

Apr 02, 2021 (SPX)

The trio of satellites, which entered orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in January, have completed functional testing, moved into proper formation, and begu...

SOFIA offers new way to study Earth's atmosphere

Apr 02, 2021 (SPX)

A decade ago, German researcher Heinz Hubers led a team to improve one of SOFIA's infrared instruments - the German Receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz Frequenc...

NASA selects Geostationary and Extended Orbits Imager Phase A Contracts

Apr 01, 2021 (SPX)

The total value of each of these one-year firm-fixed price contracts is approximately $6M. The work will be performed at the contractors' facilities in Indiana ...

Remote monitoring could boost the use of nature-based solutions to safeguard against natural hazards

Mar 31, 2021 (SPX)

Grey structural measures (a collective term for engineering projects that use concrete and steel) like floodgates, dams, dikes and sea walls are still the most ...

Second Scout gets the go-ahead

Mar 31, 2021 (ESA)

Complementing ESA's series of Earth Explorer research missions, Scout missions are a new element in ESA's Earth Observation FutureEO Programme. The idea is to d...

Corridor test of Proba-3's formation flying sensors

Mar 30, 2021 (ESA)

The Proba-3 pair will fly at a nominal 144 m apart for coronal observations, while in addition performing formation reconfiguration manoeuvres that will change ...

Axelspace and KSAT expands their partnership

Mar 30, 2021 (SPX)

With the successful launch of 4 satellites (GRUS-1B, 1C, 1D and 1E) from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, on March 22, 2021, Axelspace is moving toward its go...

Utilis secures $6m from Beringea to harness satellites to protect critical infrastructure and global water supplies

Mar 30, 2021 (SPX)

Utilis was founded in 2013 by Lauren Guy, a scientist focused on atmospheric physics and dynamics studying the ability of space-based synthetic aperture radar (...

Astronomy and Landscape in the city of Caral, the oldest city in the Americas

Mar 30, 2021 (SPX)

Ruth Shady Solis, has established the relation between the position of the monuments of the Supe Culture (Peru), their orientations, and some astronomical and t...

NASA's GLOBE program celebrates 25 years

Mar 29, 2021 (SPX)

"We make sure they're not coming in polluting the water or the air and that the oil they use is low in sulfur and meets U.S. air quality regulations," she said....

AI and satellite images come together to discover hidden archaeological sites

Mar 29, 2021 (SPX)

The AI will be able to recognize even minimal or imperceptible variations in vegetation or other particular signs of the surface that may indicate the presence ...

Direct observations confirm that humans are throwing Earth's energy budget off balance

Mar 26, 2021 (SPX)

Radiative energy enters Earth's system from the sunlight that shines on our planet. Some of this energy reflects off of Earth's surface or atmosphere back into ...

Satellites map record floods in Australia

Mar 26, 2021 (ESA)

This radar image uses information from two separate images captured by the Sentinel-1 mission on 7 and 19 March highlighting flooded areas in dark blue and urba...

Aerosol formation in clouds

Mar 26, 2021 (SPX)

Aerosols, a mixture of solid or liquid particles suspended in the air, play an important role in Earth's climate. Aerosols originate either from natural or huma...

Dubai reports launch of DMSat-1 Atmospheric Monitoring Microsatellite

Mar 24, 2021 (SPX)

SFL developed DMSat-1 under contract to the Dubai-based Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The 15-kg microsatellite was...

The blast that shook the ionosphere

Mar 18, 2021 (SPX)

Just after 6 p.m. local time (15.00 UTC) on August 4, 2020, more than 2,750 tons worth of unsafely stored ammonium nitrate exploded in Lebanon's port city of Be...

New Chinese satellite measures solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence

Mar 18, 2021 (SPX)

China has committed to carbon neutrality by 2060. Technological upgrades and energy structure adjustments through the next four decades will be vital to reducin...

Pixxel to launch the world's highest resolution hyperspectral smallsat constellation

Mar 18, 2021 (SPX)

Additionally, for the first time today, Pixxel came out of stealth and publicly announced its mission to build the world's highest resolution hyperspectral sate...

Boston company plans satellites for global weather radar

Mar 18, 2021 (UPI)

The company, which already sells weather data services to such firms as Uber and Delta, won't say how many satellites it plans. ClimaCell claims to have new tec...