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Russia Declassifies Satellite Earth-Sensing Data
Dec 26, 2014 (Sputnik)
The Russian government said Friday it will provide public access to previously classified Earth-sensing data received from domestic and foreign satellites. "The...
Salinity matters
Dec 23, 2014 (ESA)
Measurements of salt held in surface seawater are becoming ever-more important for us to understand ocean circulation and Earth's water cycle. ESA's SMOS missio...
NASA's IMAGE and Cluster Missions Reveal Origin of Theta Auroras
Dec 23, 2014 (SPX)
Auroras are the most visible manifestation of the sun's effect on Earth, but many aspects of these spectacular displays are still poorly understood. Thanks to t...
NASA's Spaceborne Carbon Counter Maps New Details
Dec 21, 2014 (JPL)
The first global maps of atmospheric carbon dioxide from NASA's new Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 mission demonstrate its performance and promise, showing eleva...
CryoSat extends its reach on the Arctic
Dec 17, 2014 (ESA)
CryoSat has delivered this year's map of autumn sea-ice thickness in the Arctic, revealing a small decrease in ice volume. In a new phase for ESA's ice mission,...
China launches another remote sensing satellite
Dec 12, 2014 (XNA)
China sent the Yaogan-25 remote sensing satellite into a scheduled orbit at 3:33 a.m. on Thursday from the Jiuquan satellite launch center. The Yaogan-25 was ca...
NOAA reveals first images of historic San Francisco shipwreck
Dec 12, 2014 (UPI)
In 1901, the SS City of Rio de Janeiro, an iron-hulled steam-powered passenger ship, was gashed by an underwater reef at the mouth of the San Francisco Bay, not...
China publishes images captured by CBERS-4 satellite
Dec 11, 2014 (XNA)
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) published Tuesday the first images captured by the newly launched CBERS-4 satellite jointly developed with Brazil...
NASA's IceBridge Antarctic Campaign Wraps Up
Dec 10, 2014 (SPX)
NASA's Operation IceBridge recently completed its 2014 Antarctic campaign, marking the mission's sixth set of flights over Antarctica. During the six-week-long ...
ADS to build Falcon Eye Earth-observation system for UAE
Dec 10, 2014 (SPX)
Airbus Defence and Space has signed as the leader of the industrial team (including Thales Alenia Space as co-prime contractor), a contract with the Armed Force...
NASA's CATS: A Launch of Exceptional Teamwork
Dec 09, 2014 (SPX)
There aren't enough people on NASA's Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) team to field both sides of a football scrimmage, but there are enough to build and t...
SSC supports the DEIMOS-2 satellite from launch through commercial service
Dec 08, 2014 (SPX)
The Swedish Space Corporation, SSC, is proud to announce its successful ground station support to the Spanish satellite DEIMOS-2, which started providing commer...
NASA Analyzes California's Rainfall from Space
Dec 08, 2014 (SPX)
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite and Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM constellation of satellites can measure rainfall from spac...
On solid ground With ESA On Watch
Dec 08, 2014 (ESA)
Lovers of architecture and history can rest easy: the stability of historical buildings can now be monitored in real time by a new technique with its roots in s...
China launches CBERS-4 satellite on Long March rockets' 200th mission
Dec 08, 2014 (XNA)
China launched the CBERS-4 satellite, jointly developed with Brazil, on Sunday from the Taiyuan base by Long March-4B rocket, the 200th flight for the Long Marc...
The Yin-Yang of Polar Sea Ice
Dec 05, 2014 (SPX)
The world is getting warmer. It comes as no surprise, therefore, when researchers announce as they did this past September that Arctic sea ice extent is still b...
Brazil to launch new satellite to track deforestation
Dec 04, 2014 (AFP)
Brazil will launch a satellite from China Sunday to keep an eye in the sky on deforestation in the Amazon, the National Space Agency (Inpe) said Thursday. An ag...
On solid ground
Dec 04, 2014 (ESA)
Lovers of architecture and history can rest easy: the stability of historical buildings can now be monitored in real time by a new technique with its roots in s...
Satellites helping to assess risk of epidemics
Dec 03, 2014 (ESA)
Learning about our enemy through satellites is helping us to combat diseases spread by insects and other pests. Changes in the environment, global trade and tra...
Fogo volcano on Sentinel's radar
Dec 03, 2014 (ESA)
Radar images from the Sentinel-1A satellite are helping to monitor ground movements of the recently erupted Fogo volcano. Located on Cape Verde's Fogo island, t...
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