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Van Allen Probes Shed Light on Decades-old Mystery
Dec 23, 2013 (SPX)
New research using data from NASA's Van Allen Probes mission helps resolve decades of scientific uncertainty over the origin of ultra-relativistic electrons in ...
Planet Labs Raises Financing
Dec 20, 2013 (SPX)
Planet Labs has raised $52 million in Series B financing. New investors joining this round include prominent technology investor Yuri Milner, Industry Ventures,...
The Fantastical Life of a GIS Analyst
Dec 19, 2013 (SPX)
What do climate modeling, malaria and black rhinos have in common? It turns out that Geographic Information Systems can be adapted to study all three. Wherever ...
Brazil, China to make new satellite launch in 2014
Dec 18, 2013 (AFP)
Brazil and China will launch a new joint environmental monitoring satellite next year to replace one which failed to enter orbit earlier this month, Communicati...
CryoSat Tracks Storm Surge
Dec 16, 2013 (ESA)
ESA's CryoSat satellite measured the storm surge from the recent North Sea storms, as high waters passed through the Kattegat sea between Denmark and Sweden. Du...
Mitsubishi Electric Awarded Contract for GOSAT-2 Satellite System
Dec 16, 2013 (SPX)
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has been selected as the contractor to supply the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) with the Greenhouse gases Observing ...
Juno Gives Starship-Like View Of Earth Flyby
Dec 11, 2013 (JPL)
When NASA's Juno spacecraft flew past Earth on Oct. 9, 2013, it received a boost in speed of more than 8,800 mph (about 7.3 kilometer per second), which set it ...
China-Brazil satellite fails to enter orbit
Dec 09, 2013 (AFP)
A joint Chinese-Brazilian environmental monitoring satellite launched Monday from northern China failed to enter orbit, state media and experts said, in a rare ...
Mysteries of Earth's radiation belts uncovered by NASA twin spacecraft
Dec 06, 2013 (SPX)
Just over a year since launch, NASA's Van Allen Probes mission continues to unravel longstanding mysteries of Earth's high-energy radiation belts that encircle ...
Mapping the world's largest coral reef
Dec 04, 2013 (ESA)
Scientists have used satellite observations to create a set of high-resolution 3D maps of the entire Great Barrier Reef - a critical step towards identifying, m...
Indra To Manage And Operate The Main Sentinel-2
Dec 03, 2013 (SPX)
Indra has closed an agreement with the European Space Agency to host the main processing and archiving centre for the images of the Sentinel-2 mission at its fa...
NASA iPad app highlights the face of a changing Earth
Dec 03, 2013 (UPI)
NASA has announced an iPad app that shows the Earth changing before a user's eyes, with interactive before-and-after views of the planet's altered face. The Ima...
Google Earth reveals untold fish catches
Nov 29, 2013 (SPX)
Large fish traps in the Persian Gulf could be catching up to six times more fish than what's being officially reported, according to the first investigation of ...
Satellite map to help assess threats to Australia's Great Barrier Reef
Nov 29, 2013 (UPI)
Scientists say satellite observations have allowed them to create a set of high-resolution 3D maps of the entire Great Barrier Reef off Australia. The maps repr...
Satellite trio to explore the Earth's magnetic field
Nov 27, 2013 (SPX)
In a dense fog, a Russian Rockot rocket on 22 November 2013 cleared the launchpad of the Baikonur Cosmodrome on schedule at 13:02:15 CET. In the tip of the rock...
LETI Magnetometers Will Expand Understanding of Magnetic Field
Nov 26, 2013 (SPX)
CEA-Leti's next-generation magnetometer technology was launched into space on board the European Space Agency's three Swarm satellites to collect unprecedented ...
Cameras for high-res images of Earth's surface on way to space station
Nov 26, 2013 (UPI)
Two cameras able to video the Earth's surface at detail as small as 3 feet across are on their way to the International Space Station, their British makers say....
China launches remote-sensing satellite
Nov 25, 2013 (XNA)
China on Wednesday sent a remote-sensing satellite into scheduled orbit, according to the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. The Yaogan XIX satellite was launched...
Free access to Copernicus Sentinel satellite data
Nov 22, 2013 (ESA)
Free and open access to Sentinel satellite data will be granted for the Copernicus operational phase. The European Delegated Act on Copernicus data and informat...
Evidence of Destruction in Tacloban, Philippines
Nov 22, 2013 (SPX)
When Super Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines on November 8, 2013, it pounded the island of Leyte with winds near 315 kilometers (195 miles) per hour and a t...
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