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Yaogan remote-sensing satellites launched into orbit
Oct 25, 2023 (XNA)
The State-owned conglomerate said in a news release that the Yaogan 39 satellites were carried by a Long March 2D rocket that lifted off at 4:03 am at the Xicha...
High-resolution atmospheric modeling gets a boost with next-gen GEOS-Chem software
Oct 25, 2023 (SPX)
Traditionally, the spatial resolution of atmospheric models has been a limitation. The original GEOS-Chem software, introduced in 2001, had a spatial resolution...
Hull Street Energy helps fuel Upstream Tech's mission in environmental monitoring
Oct 25, 2023 (SPX)
Upstream Tech has garnered a reputation for expertise in software engineering and environmental analytics. Their product, HydroForecast, is renowned for its acc...
QuickSounder Spacecraft contract awarded by NASA
Oct 24, 2023 (SPX)
The firm-fixed-price delivery order covers all phases of QuickSounder's operations to include spacecraft development, integration of NOAA's Advanced Technology ...
UI professors build instruments for space mission set to launch with SpaceX in 2025
Oct 23, 2023 (SPX)
"Craig was both a friend and a mentor to me and many others in the space physics community," Miles said. "I will miss him, but I'm honored to have the opportuni...
RADARSAT+: over $1 billion for the future of satellite Earth observation
Oct 20, 2023 (SPX)
+ design and develop a replacement satellite for the RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) + design a next-generation satellite system to succeed the RCM This in...
Dust in the air worsened in 2022: UN
Oct 19, 2023 (AFP)
The UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said the slight rise was due to increased emissions from west-central Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, the Irania...
Chinese satellite cluster utilizes InSAR technology for advanced terrain mapping
Oct 19, 2023 (SPX)
Earlier in March, China took a significant step in space technology by launching PIESAT-1, also known as Hongtu-1. The constellation stands out for being the fi...
Signatures of the Space Age: Spacecraft metals left in the wake of humanity's path to the stars
Oct 17, 2023 (SPX)
Using tools hitched to the nose cone of their research planes and sampling more than 11 miles above the planet's surface, researchers have discovered significan...
Monitoring African copper and cobalt mining emissions from space
Oct 16, 2023 (SPX)
The new study is published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, and shows for the first time that satellite monitoring ...
Planet's Pelican tech demonstration satellite ready for launch
Oct 11, 2023 (SPX)
Pelican-1 is a technology demonstration, built to test Pelican's integrated design and Planet's common bus platform. This common bus platform, designed and buil...
THEOS-2 Airbus-built satellite for Thailand successfully launched
Oct 09, 2023 (ESA)
Jean-Marc Nasr, Head of Space Systems at Airbus, said: "This successful launch of THEOS-2, with its 50cm imagery, confirms Thailand's position in the small circ...
Hawaii gets $8M for new space tech to measure Earth's chemical composition
Oct 05, 2023 (SPX)
The flagship HSFL project led by Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) Director Robert Wright features HSFL's Hyperspectral Thermal Imager (HyTI...
EU agrees to eliminate climate warming 'F-gases' by 2050
Oct 05, 2023 (AFP)
Fluorinated gases -- described as the "worst greenhouse gases you've never heard of" by Greenpeace -- have a global warming effect up to 25,000 times greater th...
NASA selects Umbra for their CSDA Program
Oct 05, 2023 (SPX)
The purpose of this contract is to acquire Earth observation data and related services from commercial sources to support NASA's Earth science research and appl...
Ozone hole goes large again
Oct 05, 2023 (ESA)
The size of the ozone hole fluctuates on a regular basis. From August to October, the ozone hole increases in size - reaching a maximum between mid-September an...
Iron atoms discovered on the move in Earth's solid inner core
Oct 04, 2023 (SPX)
But even here, there's space for wiggle room, researchers have found. A study led by The University of Texas at Austin and collaborators in China found that cer...
NASA selects Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition contractors
Oct 04, 2023 (SPX)
The Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition Program will acquire Earth observation data and related services from commercial sources for NASA. This fixed-price, in...
Scientists figured out what causes Earth's strongest lightning
Oct 02, 2023 (SPX)
Superbolts make up less than 1% of total lightning, but when they do strike, they pack a powerful punch. While the average lightning strike contains around 300 ...
NASA-led study pinpoints areas of New York City sinking, rising
Sep 28, 2023 (JPL)
The new study was published Wednesday in Science Advances by a team of researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California and Rutgers Univ...
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