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Pollution Monitoring Instrument Passes Critical NASA Review
May 09, 2015 (SPX)
A space-based instrument that will monitor major air pollutants across North America on an hourly basis passed a major milestone by successfully completing a cr...
Latin America EO Data Market To Exceed $350 Million By 2024
May 09, 2015 (SPX)
According to Euroconsult's newly released report, Earth Observation Requirements and Solutions in Latin America, the Latin American Earth observation market is ...
Volcano Loki observed from Earth
May 08, 2015 (SPX)
With the first detailed observations of a lava lake on a moon of Jupiter, the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory in Arizona places itself as the forerunner o...
MOU between ISRO Department of Land Resources to beef up EO capacity
May 05, 2015 (SPX)
A function for signing the MOU between Department of Land Resources and NRSC for developing the Bhuvan Geoportal - Srishti and the mobile application Drishti wa...
NASA Aids Response to Nepal Quake
May 05, 2015 (JPL)
NASA and its partners are gathering the best available science and information on the April 25, 2015, magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal, referred to as the Gork...
Nepal earthquake on the radar
May 03, 2015 (ESA)
On 25 April, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, claiming over 5000 lives and affecting millions of people. Satellite images are being used to support emer...
Technologies enable ambitious MMS mission
May 01, 2015 (SPX)
It was unprecedented developing a mission that could fly four identically equipped spacecraft in a tight formation and take measurements 100 times faster than a...
Dull forest glow yields orbital tracking of photosynthesis
May 01, 2015 (SPX)
A research team led by geoscientists from Brown University and the Marine Biological Laboratory has provided some crucial ground-truth for a method of measuring...
Egyptian Space Authority Denies Losing Control of EgyptSat Two Satellite
Apr 30, 2015 (Sputnik)
On Thursday, the Russian Izvestiya newspaper reported, citing a source in the RSC Energia (Russian rocket and space corporation), that EgyptSat 2 on April 14 di...
ADS to build first Franco-German Earth observation satellite MERLIN
Apr 30, 2015 (SPX)
Airbus Defence and Space, the world's second largest space company, has signed a contract with the French space agency (CNES) to build the platform and carry ou...
NASA's ATLAS thermal testing: You're hot, then you're cold
Apr 30, 2015 (SPX)
Once in orbit, the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 will go from basking in the heat of the sun to freezing in Earth's shadow every 90 minutes. And eve...
DigitalGlobe offers high resolution satellite map of Aafrica
Apr 29, 2015 (SPX)
DigitalGlobe has announced the general availability of its Basemap +Vivid product for the entire African continent. Keeping pace with the rapid evolution of map...
NASA RapidScat Proving Valuable for Tropical Cyclones
Apr 27, 2015 (JPL)
The ISS-RapidScat instrument has been in orbit seven months, and forecasters are already finding this new eye-in-the-sky helpful as they keep watch on major sto...
SPoRT disaster response team provides imagery for Illinois tornadoes
Apr 23, 2015 (SPX)
On April 9, 2015, severe thunderstorms produced several reports of damaging wind, hail, and tornadoes - including one particularly strong (EF-4) long-track torn...
Fast access to CryoSat's Arctic ice measurements now available
Apr 23, 2015 (ESA)
ESA's ice mission has become the first satellite to provide information on Arctic sea-ice thickness in near-real time to aid maritime activities in the polar re...
GOCE helps tap into sustainable energy resources
Apr 17, 2015 (ESA)
Going far above and beyond its original mission objectives, results from the GOCE gravity satellite are now being used to produce maps for geothermal energy dev...
NASA, USGS Begin Work on Landsat 9 to Continue Land Imaging Legacy
Apr 17, 2015 (SPX)
NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have started work on Landsat 9, planned to launch in 2023, which will extend the Earth-observing program's record of ...
Protecting nature on the fly
Apr 16, 2015 (SPX)
Simply declaring a region as a nature protection area is not enough, regular monitoring of its ecological condition is also necessary. Since Nature protection a...
TRMM rainfall mission comes to an end after 17 years
Apr 15, 2015 (SPX)
In 1997 when the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM, was launched, its mission was scheduled to last just a few years. Now, 17 years later, the TRMM m...
Last stretch before being packed tight
Apr 14, 2015 (ESA)
Once in space, Sentinel-2A will open its solar wing to generate the power it needs to carry out the task of monitoring Earth's vegetation. Engineers have recent...
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