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China launches two more remote sensing satellites into orbit
Jul 29, 2022 (XNA)
The rocket blasted off at 9:28 pm at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province and soon placed the Yaogan 35-02 satellites, the third group of spa...
Lockheed Martin to support severe weather and climate monitoring for NOAA
Jul 28, 2022 (SPX)
The Phase A contract awards are for GeoXO's lightning mapper and spacecraft design. Together, they will help NOAA get an even better look at Earth's severe weat...
Spire Global awarded NOAA contract to deliver space weather data
Jul 28, 2022 (SPX)
"NOAA's focus on space weather data has allowed commercial providers opportunities to showcase the growing quality and impact their data can have on ionospheric...
EarthCARE taking wing
Jul 28, 2022 (ESA)
The Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer, EarthCARE, is equipped with two main instruments, a lidar plus radar - along with a smaller radiometer and cloud...
Tap into Europe in motion
Jul 27, 2022 (ESA)
And now, thanks to Europe's environmental Copernicus programme and the Sentinel-1 radar satellite mission, the first Europe-wide subsidence and soil movement an...
NASA awards contracts for NOAA GeoXO Spacecraft Phase A Study
Jul 27, 2022 (SPX)
The firms selected are Lockheed Martin Space of Littleton, Colorado, and Maxar Space LLC of Palo Alto, California. The total value of each of these ten-month fi...
How different parts of mixed convective-stratiform clouds respond to cloud seeding
Jul 26, 2022 (SPX)
Using data from Ka-band cloud profiling radar (KPR) measurements onboard aircraft, along with the remote sensing observations from SNPP and Himawari-8 satellite...
Landsat turns 50
Jul 25, 2022 (SPX)
The first satellite in the Landsat series launched on July 23, 1972. Eight others followed, providing the same views so changes could be tracked over time, but ...
Metaspectral and HySpeed Computing to develop earth observation payload for ISS
Jul 25, 2022 (SPX)
OPTICA is scheduled for launch in early 2023 on the SpaceX CRS-27 mission, with a six-month deployment on the ISS following soon thereafter. The mission is spon...
NOAA contracts with Planet to image oil spills, marine debris, and marine life
Jul 25, 2022 (SPX)
In 2004, Hurricane Ivan caused severe damage in the Gulf of Mexico, including the collapse and sinking of an oil platform. Crude oil from this platform continue...
Innovative data satellite enters commercial service
Jul 25, 2022 (ESA)
The satellite will provide broadband connectivity for commercial shipping, aviation, governments and enterprises through its operator, SES, as well connecting u...
Satellite Vu and SSTL commission satellite clone to double climate data collection
Jul 22, 2022 (SPX)
The deal sees SSTL begin construction on the second of Satellite Vu's Mid Wave Infra-Red (MWIR) thermal imaging satellite's which will collect thermal data day ...
Maxar's hi-res Vivid Basemaps enhances Esri ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World
Jul 22, 2022 (SPX)
With the new, multiyear agreement, Esri will use Maxar's Vivid basemaps to upgrade nearly half of the global landmass in Living Atlas from 1.2 m resolution to 6...
Feeling the heat from space
Jul 21, 2022 (ESA)
The image, which uses data from the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission's radiometer instrument, shows the temperature of the land surface in southern France, Spain a...
Europe heat sparks harmful ozone pollution, 'extreme' fire risk
Jul 19, 2022 (AFP)
Record temperatures, which scientists say are driven by climate change, are predicted in France and Britain Tuesday as suffocating heat that has gripped southwe...
BlackSky to provide advanced AI for space-based dynamic monitoring
Jul 18, 2022 (SPX)
"As part of our work, BlackSky created a high-performance MLOps (machine learning operations) framework that was ultimately selected to perform as the core infr...
Predicting equatorial plasma bubbles with SWARM
Jul 17, 2022 (SPX)
New AI models are now helping scientists to predict plasma bubble events and create a forecast. The work was presented this week at the National Astronomy Meeti...
NASA's New Mineral Dust Detector Readies for Launch
Jul 15, 2022 (JPL)
Set to launch to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on Thursday, July 14, at 8:44 p.m. EDT (5:44 p.m. PDT), NASA's Earth Surface ...
BlackSky and Esri target on-demand dynamic satellite tasking to ArcGIS customers
Jul 14, 2022 (SPX)
"BlackSky Tasking for ArcGIS Online makes satellite tasking directly accessible to millions of ArcGIS Online users for the first time," said Esri Corporate Dire...
Ocean and wave models complement atmosphere-only storm predictions
Jul 14, 2022 (SPX)
The research team, including researchers from City University of Hong Kong and Imperial College London, published their findings in Advances in Atmospheric Scie...
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