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China's first high orbit remote sensing satellite put into use
Jun 15, 2016 (XNA)
China's first high orbit remote sensing satellite, Gaofen-4, went into use after six months of in-orbit testing, the State Administration of Science, Technology...
Helping satellites be right as rain
Jun 14, 2016 (SPX)
As you read this paragraph, a NASA satellite orbits around planet Earth, gathering data on - of all things - soil moisture. Moisture in the soil acts like a the...
Stanford researchers calculate groundwater levels from satellite data
Jun 14, 2016 (SPX)
A new computer algorithm developed at Stanford University is enabling scientists to use satellite data to determine groundwater levels across larger areas than ...
Rust under pressure could explain deep Earth anomalies
Jun 14, 2016 (SPX)
Using laboratory techniques to mimic the conditions found deep inside the Earth, a team of Carnegie scientists led by Ho-Kwang "Dave" Mao has identified a form ...
Airbus Defence and Space has completed PeruSAT-1 in less than 24 months
Jun 10, 2016 (SPX)
Airbus Defence and Space, the world's second largest space company, has completed integration of PeruSAT-1, Peru's first Earth observation satellite. It was bui...
New cheap method of surveying landscapes can capture environmental change
Jun 08, 2016 (SPX)
Cheap cameras on drones can be used to measure environmental change which affects billions of people around the world, new research from the University of Exete...
Constraining the composition of Earth's interior with elasticity of minerals
Jun 08, 2016 (SPX)
The composition and temperature of the Earth's interior are fundamental for us to understand the Earth' interior and his dynamics. Because of the impossibility ...
Mapping that sinking feeling
Jun 07, 2016 (ESA)
For a low-lying, densely populated country like the Netherlands, monitoring subsidence is critical. Until recently, tiny displacements in the ground beneath our...
What sustains Earth's magnetic field
Jun 06, 2016 (SPX)
Earth's magnetic field shields us from deadly cosmic radiation, and without it, life as we know it could not exist here. The motion of liquid iron in the planet...
SpaceDataHighway: first laser transmission of an image taken by the Sentinel 1A satellite
Jun 03, 2016 (SPX)
EDRS-A, the first relay satellite for the EDRS-SpaceDataHighway programme, launched on 30 January 2016, successfully transmitted the first image taken by the Se...
Ironing out the mystery of Earth's magnetic field
Jun 03, 2016 (SPX)
The earth's magnetic field has been existing for at least 3.4 billion years thanks to the low heat conduction capability of iron in the planet's core. This is t...
New NASA instrument brings coasts and coral into focus
Jun 01, 2016 (JPL)
A coastal scene with deep blue seas and a coral reef is beautiful to look at, but if you try to record the scene with a camera or a scientific instrument, the r...
Bayer and Planetary Resources intend to collaborate to improve agriculture with space data
Jun 01, 2016 (SPX)
Bayer and the aerospace technology company Planetary Resources, based in Redmond, Washington, USA, have signed a memorandum of understanding about the developme...
Drones, satellites to monitor water sources along Yangtze
May 31, 2016 (XNA)
Drones and satellites will be used to survey drinking water sources in cities along the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the Ministry of Environmental Protection an...
Planetary Resources raises $21M for Earth Observation platform
May 30, 2016 (SPX)
Planetary Resources has announced that it has secured US$21.1 million in Series A funding. The capital will be used to deploy and operate Ceres, an advanced Ear...
Sentinel-1 helping Cyclone Roanu relief
May 27, 2016 (ESA)
Cyclone Roanu has claimed over 100 lives in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and has left tens of thousands in need of aid. Officials are looking to the sky for inform...
Sun glitter reveals coastal waves
May 25, 2016 (ESA)
Sentinel-2A is demonstrating how it can be used to help forecast ocean waves around our coasts: sunlight reflected from the water surface reveals complex waves ...
Van Allen Probes Reveal Long-Term Behavior of Earth's Ring Current
May 20, 2016 (SPX)
New findings based on a year's worth of observations from NASA's Van Allen Probes have revealed that the ring current - an electrical current carried by energet...
New data on the variability of the Earth's reflectance over the last 16 years
May 20, 2016 (SPX)
The Earth's albedo, or reflectance, is a fundamental atmospheric parameter having deep implications for temperature and climate change. For that reason, experim...
Astrosat welcomes the Copernicus Masters Challenge
May 18, 2016 (SPX)
The Edinburgh-based, internationally renowned, space services and management company Astrosat is this year setting the challenge for the prestigious European Co...
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