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China Launches Yaogan-30 Remote Sensing Satellite
May 18, 2016 (Sputnik)
According to the Xinhua news agency, the satellite was launched from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 10:43 a.m. local time (02:43 GMT). The satellite was car...
From petabytes to pictures
May 17, 2016 (ESA)
Thousands of scientists are at the Living Planet Symposium in Prague this week to present the latest findings on our changing planet. Between the mountains of d...
Earth's magnetic heartbeat
May 12, 2016 (ESA)
With more than two years of measurements by ESA's Swarm satellite trio, changes in the strength of Earth's magnetic field are being mapped in detail. Launched a...
Spotlight on our living planet
May 12, 2016 (ESA)
One of the biggest Earth observation conferences in the world got off to a flying start today as thousands of scientists from around the world gathered in the C...
Now 40, NASA's LAGEOS Set the Bar for Studies of Earth
May 09, 2016 (SPX)
On May 4, 1976, NASA launched a cannonball-shaped satellite that transformed studies of Earth's shape, rotation and gravity field. LAGEOS - short for Laser Geod...
Underground fungi detected from space
May 09, 2016 (SPX)
Just as a person's skin indicates if s/he has a healthy diet, colored satellite images of forests in the Smithsonian's Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGE...
A Cautionary Tale From Planet Earth
May 06, 2016 (SPX)
The beauty of Earth from space is a matchless experience seen in IMAX, from the natural beauty of land and sea to the electric power of our world's storms and n...
BlackSky inks US deal to enhance global decision-making
May 02, 2016 (SPX)
BlackSky has announced that it has established an official partnership with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). UNITAR, created in ...
Cracking the Code in Satellite Data
May 02, 2016 (SPX)
The challenge: New constellations of small satellites will launch in the near future, generating a deluge of imagery for analysts to sift through to find patter...
Satellite coverage for polar bears and penguins
May 02, 2016 (SPX)
Although children's books and animated films often show them frolicking together, penguins and polar bears actually occupy opposite ends of the earth. Polar bea...
Sentinel-1B delivers
May 02, 2016 (ESA)
Launched on 25 April from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, Sentinel-1B has produced its first images only two hours after the radar was switched on - a reco...
NTT DATA and RESTEC achieve full global coverage with AW3DTM
May 02, 2016 (SPX)
NTT DATA and the Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan (RESTEC) have announced that their global digital 3D map service, AW3DTM, became the world's first fi...
Satellite data latest tool in Indonesia's fight against illegal fishing
Apr 27, 2016 (AFP)
Indonesia will use data from miniature satellites around the globe to pinpoint the location of illegal fishing vessels trawling its vast waters, under an agreem...
China's Earth observation satellite assists Ecuador quake relief
Apr 27, 2016 (XNA)
China has offered a set of hi-resolution imageries of the Ecuador quake zone, captured by satellite Gaofen-2 to aid relief work, according to the China National...
Libya's Haruj volcanic field spotted from space
Apr 27, 2016 (UPI)
Next time you're passing above North Africa at an altitude of 440 miles, check out the Haruj volcanic field in central Libya. From space, the volcanic plateau l...
Sentinel-1B launched to complete radar pair
Apr 26, 2016 (ESA)
The second Sentinel-1 satellite - Sentinel-1B - was launched today to provide more 'radar vision' for Europe's environmental Copernicus programme. Sentinel-1B l...
Sentinel-1 counts fish
Apr 22, 2016 (ESA)
Images from the Sentinel-1A satellite are being used to monitor aquaculture in the Mediterranean, in another example of the mission's contribution to food secur...
Penn to study intense awe astronauts feel viewing Earth from space
Apr 20, 2016 (SPX)
Picture Earth at the center of a frame. The planet looks unassuming, a fleck, its blue-and-white marbling stark against a black interstellar backdrop. Yet the i...
DigitalGlobe delivers first phase of continent-scale mapping initiative for PSMA Australia
Apr 19, 2016 (SPX)
DigitalGlobe reports its has completed the first phase of a continent-scale mapping initiative that will enable Geoscape, a new information product from PSMA Au...
Sentinel-1 sees rice paddy drop in the Mekong Delta
Apr 19, 2016 (ESA)
Europe's Sentinel-1A satellite has shown that the Mekong River Delta - one of the world's major rice-growing areas - saw a significant drop in productivity over...
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