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Ball Aerospace Completes Hand Over of Next-Gen Weather Satellite JPSS-1 to NASA, NOAA
Apr 16, 2018 (SPX)
The acceptance review confirmed the satellite met its on-orbit requirements, and the spacecraft and the five instruments are performing as expected. NOAA-20 is ...
Storm hunter in position
Apr 16, 2018 (ESA)
Operators in Canada commanded the International Space Station's 16-m long robotic arm to move the 314-kg facility from a Dragon spacecraft's cargo hold to its p...
Swarm tracks elusive ocean magnetism
Apr 12, 2018 (ESA)
New results from the trio of Swarm satellites are wowing this year's European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna, Austria. This week-long event draws scientist...
China launches Yaogan-31 remote sensing satellites
Apr 12, 2018 (XNA)
The satellites were carried by a Long March-4C rocket, the 271st mission for the Long March rocket family. The mission also sent a micro nano technology experim...
Do-It-Yourself Science: Because We Are All Explorers
Apr 12, 2018 (JPL)
"It's been since I was about 5 years old. It's been in my blood since then," said Beer, now 61. "Just the wonderment and trying to understand how everything goe...
New source of global nitrogen discovered: Earth's bedrock
Apr 10, 2018 (SPX)
The results, published this week in the journal Science, demonstrate that up to 26 percent of the nitrogen in ecosystems is sourced from rocks, with the remaini...
Draining peatlands gives global rise to laughing-gas emissions
Apr 06, 2018 (SPX)
Research into natural peatlands such as fens, swamps and bogs, as well as drained peatlands, found that either draining wet soils or irrigating well drained soi...
New source of global nitrogen discovered
Apr 06, 2018 (SPX)
The study, to be published April 6 in the journal Science, found that up to 26 percent of the nitrogen in natural ecosystems is sourced from rocks, with the rem...
New satellite method enables undersea estimates from space
Apr 06, 2018 (SPX)
Their research remedies a problem that has plagued scientists for decades: ocean-observing satellites are incredibly powerful tools, but they can only "see" the...
China receives data from three Gaofen-1 satellites
Apr 05, 2018 (XNA)
The package of data with a total size of 166.31 gigabytes was received by the remote sensing satellite ground station in Miyun on the outskirts of Beijing. Grou...
Denmark Hopeful to 'Enter Superliga' With Recent Space Project
Apr 04, 2018 (Sputnik)
The Asim Space Observatory has been successfully launched into space and is now heading toward the International Space Station (ISS). While this is an internati...
The Viking, the dragon and the god of thunder
Apr 03, 2018 (ESA)
For Andreas it all started with an interesting project during his mission to the Space Station in 2015. He was tasked to capture on camera the flashes generated...
The saga of India's remote sensing satellite network
Mar 29, 2018 (SPX)
The successful launch of IRS-1A was one of the proudest moments for the entire country, which depicted the maturity of satellite to address the various requirem...
Research shows fertilization drives global lake emissions of greenhouse gases
Mar 29, 2018 (SPX)
"Our research pioneers a new way of determining the global atmospheric effect of lakes using satellite information on lake greenness and size distribution," sai...
Proba-1 spots Giza pyramids from space
Mar 28, 2018 (UPI)
The photograph offers a perspective from north to south. At the center of the image is the smaller Pyramid of Menkaure, built to house the tomb of the fourth dy...
Taking the Pulse of Greenhouse Gases
Mar 27, 2018 (SPX)
Two hundred microseconds, to be exact. With lasers shot from the belly of a King Air B200 aircraft. That's right, scientists are shooting lasers at atmospheric ...
A space window to electrifying science
Mar 27, 2018 (ESA)
As he flew over India at 28 800 km/h on the International Space Station in 2015, astronaut Andreas Mogensen directed a high-resolution camera towards a gigantic...
NASA renews focus on Earth's frozen regions
Mar 27, 2018 (SPX)
The space agency is launching these missions at a time when decades of observations from the ground, air and space have revealed signs of change in Earth's ice ...
Sentinel-3B launch preparations in full swing
Mar 26, 2018 (ESA)
After arriving at the launch site on 18 March, the satellite has been taken out of its transport container and is being set up for testing. Kristof Gantois, ESA...
New technologies and computing power to help strengthen population data
Mar 23, 2018 (SPX)
WorldPop at the University, in partnership with non-profit organisation Flowminder Foundation, is forging links with a range of countries around the globe to su...
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