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Local governments urged to boost remote sensing capabilities
Aug 17, 2023 (XNA)
Based on pilot programs this year and the next, the nation will commence establishment of the new mechanism, which prioritizes the health of ecosystems rather t...
Planet completes acquisition of Sinergise; Set to expand Planet's EO data
Aug 15, 2023 (SPX)
The purchase of the Sinergise business, based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, accelerates the advancement of Planet's Earth Data Platform and ability to efficiently del...
Satellite ground station runs all-weather, all-day in NW China
Aug 15, 2023 (SPX)
The ground station is currently undertaking data receiving tasks for all of China's land observation and space science satellites, as well as measurement and co...
Putting the S in the first Meteosat Third Generation Sounder
Aug 15, 2023 (ESA)
Working alongside its MTG-I1 partner satellite, which carries an advanced imager (the Flexible Combined Imager), the MTG-S1 satellite will not only be used to f...
NASA TechRise Student Challenge tests experiments in stratosphere
Aug 11, 2023 (SPX)
Flight tests play a critical role in advancing the agency's space exploration priorities. TechRise - led by NASA's Flight Opportunities program and administered...
GHGSat taps Spire Global for four more 16U CubeSats
Aug 11, 2023 (SPX)
This new contract comes as an extension to a previous collaboration between the two firms. GHGSat had earlier entrusted Spire with the responsibility of launchi...
NASA Software Catalog Offers Free Programs for Earth Science, More
Aug 11, 2023 (SPX)
The 2023-2024 Software Catalog contains more than 1,000 programs, including dozens of new packages added this year. Among the 15 different categories of NASA so...
HALO investigates transport of polluted air masses over the Pacific Ocean
Aug 11, 2023 (SPX)
Numerous measurement flights with the HALO research aircraft are planned under the direction of Forschungszentrum Julich and the Johannes Gutenberg University M...
BlackSky signs Rocket Lab for five launches
Aug 09, 2023 (SPX)
"We continue to see strong, growing demand for our high-frequency, low latency offering from our current and next generation constellation especially for defens...
Southern Cross and Satelytics Announce Market Development Partnership
Aug 09, 2023 (SPX)
Satelytics is a software company, producing geospatial analytics for early detection, location, and quantification of its customers' most pressing challenges. S...
IBM collaborates with NASA to launch Geospatial AI on Hugging Face
Aug 06, 2023 (SPX)
The contemporary world of climate science is characterized by swift changes in environmental conditions. Although there's a surge in data availability - NASA's ...
Ionospheric study reveals surprising protection by Earth's magnetic field
Aug 04, 2023 (SPX)
Tohoku University's geophysicist Yuto Katoh spearheaded this groundbreaking research, the details of which are featured in the scientific journal Earth, Planets...
China launches its latest meteorological satellite
Aug 04, 2023 (XNA)
A Long March 4C carrier rocket lifted off at 11:47 am at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China and flew about 22 minutes before placing the ...
China launches Fengyun-3 satellite
Aug 03, 2023 (XNA)
The Fengyun-3 06 satellite was launched at 11:47 am (Beijing Time) by a Long March-4C carrier rocket and successfully entered the planned orbit. The launch mark...
Dune patterns reveal environmental change on Earth and other planets
Aug 03, 2023 (SPX)
Now, Stanford researchers have found a way to interpret the meaning of these patterns. Their results, published in Geology Aug. 1, can be used as a new tool for...
NASA-led Mission to Map Air Pollution in 3D Over Megacities
Jul 28, 2023 (JPL)
Launched into orbit earlier this spring, TEMPO, short for Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution, is the first satellite instrument that will measure a...
PlanetiQ Commences Daily Deliveries of High-Quality GNSS-RO Data to NOAA
Jul 26, 2023 (SPX)
According to Ira Scharf, CEO of PlanetiQ, integrating their high-end GNSS-RO data into NOAA's resources, in combination with the company's deep familiarity with...
Groundbreaking method to speed up aerosol retrieval data from Chinese optical satellite
Jul 25, 2023 (SPX)
While the launch of new satellite sensors often comes with challenges, particularly when it comes to swiftly collecting sufficient data to support the developme...
Detecting threats beyond the limits of human, sensor sight
Jul 21, 2023 (SPX)
A new patented software system developed at Sandia National Laboratories can find the curves of motion in streaming video and images from satellites, drones and...
Crews head down river, out to sea to prep new SWOT water satellite
Jul 21, 2023 (JPL)
A collaboration between NASA and the French space agency, CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales), SWOT is measuring the height of nearly all water on Earth's...
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