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Keeper of the winds shines on
Apr 27, 2022 (ESA)
Heralding the start of the Aeolus Third Anniversary Conference in Taormina, Sicily, which highlighted the continued importance of this pioneering wind mission, ...
Satellogic and Geollect to provide geospatial insights for the maritime domain
Apr 27, 2022 (SPX)
Satellogic will contribute its maritime imagery collection and processing capabilities to Geollect, which will lead the sensor and geolocation monitoring proces...
NASA selects investigation teams to join Geospace Dynamics Mission
Apr 27, 2022 (SPX)
GDC is a coordinated group of satellites that will provide the first direct global measurements of the dynamic and complex region of space enveloping Earth - kn...
Moody's and Planet Labs form strategic relationship for asset verification services
Apr 25, 2022 (SPX)
The companies will look to address how Planet's high-cadence geospatial data and Moody's market-leading entity data, methodologies, and products can be leverage...
BlackSky upgrades site monitoring with enhanced analytics and imaging capabilities
Apr 25, 2022 (SPX)
"BlackSky released new imaging and analysis upgrades that, when combined with our high-revisit satellite imaging capabilities, will make monitoring the world's ...
PAR Government teams up with BlackSky to deliver near real-time imagery
Apr 22, 2022 (SPX)
"As the name implies, Sit(x) can handle the situational awareness demands of any situation," said PAR Government President Michael Nelson. "Sit(x) helps front-l...
From supercomputers to symbiotes
Apr 22, 2022 (SPX)
NASA's Student Airborne Science Activation program (SaSa) is on a mission to broaden the ethnic and racial diversity of researchers in the Earth sciences. SaSa ...
Maxar extends 3D Geospatial capabilities through partnership with Blackshark
Apr 22, 2022 (SPX)
The Blackshark.ai platform processes petabytes of satellite imagery in hours, and it detects and segments objects, roads, vegetation, and other infrastructure o...
Planet joins ESA Third Party Mission Program for satellite imagery
Apr 22, 2022 (SPX)
Initiated in 1976, the ESA Earthnet Programme is a "Network for the Earth," with the purpose of building an Earth Observation science community to acquire and s...
Lesser known ozone layer's outsized role in planet warming
Apr 22, 2022 (SPX)
Ozone is a gas composed of three oxygen atoms. Many studies have described ozone in the stratosphere, and its role in shielding people from the sun's harmful ul...
NASA awards contracts for NOAA Lightning Mapper Phase A Study
Apr 22, 2022 (SPX)
The firms selected are Northrop Grumman Corporation System Sector of Azusa, California, and Lockheed Martin Corporation of Littleton, Colorado. The total value ...
Weather satellite prepares for lightning
Apr 22, 2022 (ESA)
Following on from the first and second generations of Meteosat satellites, the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) mission will deliver essential data for weather f...
China receives data from atmospheric environmental monitoring satellite
Apr 22, 2022 (SPX)
At 11:46 a.m. that day, the Miyun Station at the outskirts of Beijing successfully tracked and received the first-track downlink data from the satellite. Then, ...
Chinese satellite obtains global gravity field data
Apr 20, 2022 (XNA)
The satellite was launched in December 2019 to test the technologies of the space-based gravitational wave detection program "Tianqin." The program Tianqin, mea...
New satellite to advance research on atmospheric environment, pollution
Apr 19, 2022 (XNA)
After in-orbit tests, the Atmospheric Environmental Surveyor satellite will start its monitoring operations and send data to scientists, according to its design...
California field campaign is helping scientists protect diverse ecosystems
Apr 19, 2022 (JPL)
SHIFT is jointly led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, The Nature Conservancy, and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and one of its primary...
Planet Partners with SynMax to Provide Energy Intelligence and Monitor Dark Vessels
Apr 19, 2022 (SPX)
With Planet's daily PlanetScope imagery, SynMax monitors the location of hundreds of well pads for hydraulic fracturing and the ongoing activity at the sites by...
BlackSky supports customers during Ukraine crisis
Apr 19, 2022 (SPX)
"We're setting a new standard in the new space industry for speed, resilience, and agility," said Brian E. O'Toole, BlackSky CEO. "Our two newest satellites wen...
Earth from Space: Scandinavian Peninsula
Apr 15, 2022 (ESA)
The Scandinavian Peninsula, which comprises Sweden and Norway, is approximately 1850 km long. It extends southward from the Barents Sea in the north, the Norweg...
Satellites improve national reporting of greenhouse gases
Apr 15, 2022 (ESA)
Reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, is clearly paramount to avoiding the worst impacts of climate change. But to underst...
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