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EUMETSAT's Data Lake - key element of DestinE has been kicked off

Mar 30, 2023 (SPX)

Rapid climate change is imposing an increasing burden on the European health, society and economy. To combat the environmental challenges, the European Commissi...

Planet to acquire Sinergise business to expand its data analysis platform

Mar 30, 2023 (SPX)

Sinergise's technology powers the European Union-backed Sentinel Hub, an advanced API-driven, cloud streaming platform that allows customers to access multi-sou...

BlackSky's completes commissioning within 18 hours of orbital delivered on news satellites

Mar 29, 2023 (SPX)

"BlackSky has more than doubled our on-orbit capacity in the last 18 months, with enough capacity to support growth over the next two years," said Nick Merski, ...

Satellogic announces integration with SkyFi

Mar 29, 2023 (SPX)

"SkyFi and Satellogic are both committed to democratizing access to Earth Observation data," said Emiliano Kargieman, CEO and Co-Founder of Satellogic. "This pa...

Spire Global awarded NOAA contract for satellite weather data

Mar 28, 2023 (SPX)

Spire will provide NOAA with near-real-time RO data that consists of vertical profiles of atmospheric measurements, including pressure, humidity and temperature...

Surprise effect: Methane cools even as it heats

Mar 28, 2023 (SPX)

Greenhouse gases like methane create a kind of blanket in the atmosphere, trapping heat from Earth's surface, called longwave energy, and preventing it from rad...

Joint NASA, CNES water-tracking satellite reveals first stunning views

Mar 27, 2023 (JPL)

The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission - led by NASA and the French space agency Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) - has se...

Detailed images from space offer clearer picture of drought effects on plants

Mar 21, 2023 (SPX)

Growing up in Granada, Spain, Terrer always had an aptitude and passion for science. He studied environmental science at the University of Murcia, where he inte...

Leading ozone scientist says more climate surprises likely

Mar 21, 2023 (AFP)

The former expert for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said the organisation's final instalment of a major series of reports, released Monday,...

How heat flow affects the Earth's magnetic field

Mar 17, 2023 (SPX)

The magnetic field radiates around the world and far into space, but it is set by processes that happen deep within the Earth's core, where temperatures exceed ...

Intelsat to operate air pollution monitoring space instrument

Mar 15, 2023 (SPX)

Known as TEMPO (Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution), the mission of the instrument is to create a revolutionary new dataset of atmospheric chemistr...

Warming makes droughts, extreme wet events more frequent, intense

Mar 14, 2023 (SPX)

In the study published March 13, 2023, in the journal Nature Water, two NASA scientists examined 20 years of data from the NASA/German GRACE and GRACE-FO satell...

Record early start again for Tokyo's cherry blossoms

Mar 14, 2023 (AFP)

In past years the country's meteorologists have linked the increasingly early blooms to climate change, and temperatures in Tokyo have been unseasonably mild in...

NASA selects L3Harris to develop imager for NOAA satellite

Mar 14, 2023 (SPX)

This cost-plus-award-fee contract is valued at approximately $765.5 million. It includes the development of two flight instruments as well as options for additi...

Earth Map and users work together for an eco-friendly world

Mar 13, 2023 (SPX)

This new tool features an intuitive point-and-click way of interfacing with the program, lending further to its ease of use. The researchers published their res...

China launches two new Earth-observation satellites

Mar 10, 2023 (XNA)

The State-owned space giant said the Tianhui 6A and 6B satellites were transported to orbit by a Long March 4C rocket that blasted off at 6:41 am from the Taiyu...

Ozone pollution linked to increased heart disease: study

Mar 10, 2023 (AFP)

While a layer of ozone in the upper atmosphere helps block harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation from reaching Earth, at ground level it is a major component of th...

ATLAS triples in size following integration with Viasat Real-Time Earth

Mar 10, 2023 (SPX)

For ATLAS, the partnership with Viasat represents another significant expansion of its federated global ground network of 44 sites after adding 11 ground sites ...

The world's atmospheric rivers now have an intensity ranking like hurricanes

Mar 10, 2023 (SPX)

Atmospheric rivers typically form when warm temperatures create moist packets of air, which strong winds then transport across the ocean; some make landfall. Th...

Smoke particles from wildfires can erode the ozone layer

Mar 09, 2023 (SPX)

The study, which appears in Nature, focuses on the smoke from the "Black Summer" megafire in eastern Australia, which burned from December 2019 into January 202...