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A dirt cheap solution? Common clay materials may help curb methane emissions
Jan 11, 2022 (SPX)
Now, a team of researchers at MIT has come up with a promising approach to controlling methane emissions and removing it from the air, using an inexpensive and ...
UK sets New Year's Day temperature record
Jan 01, 2022 (AFP)
The mercury climbed to 16.2C in St James's Park in central London, according to a provisional Met Office reading, easily beating out the previous record of 15.6...
UK records warmest ever New Year's Eve
Jan 01, 2022 (AFP)
The village of Ryehill in Yorkshire in northern England recorded a temperature of 14.9C at 11 am on Friday, breaking a previous record of 14.8C set in Wales in ...
China launches Tianhui 4 satellite into orbit
Dec 30, 2021 (XNA)
The State-owned space contractor said the satellite was deployed by a Long March 2D carrier rocket that blasted off at 7:13 pm and has entered orbit. Tianhui 4,...
NASA: New topography satellite masts unfurl successfully
Dec 29, 2021 (UPI)
The satellite, also known as SWOT, was designed to capture precise measurements of the height of water in Earth's freshwater bodies and the ocean. It will also ...
China launches new resource satellite
Dec 27, 2021 (XNA)
The resource satellite, ZY-1 02E, was launched at 11:11 a.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-4C carrier rocket. The satellite, developed by the China Academy of ...
China receives data from newly launched resource satellite
Dec 27, 2021 (XNA)
The ground station in Beijing's Miyun District tracked and received the downlink data from the 5-meter optical satellite in two receiving tasks that lasted abou...
L3Harris Completes Delivery of Imagers for NOAA's Advanced Environmental Satellites
Dec 21, 2021 (SPX)
The fourth Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) will be integrated into the GOES-U satellite, slated to launch in 2024, and will be operated by NOAA. The ABI is the w...
Virgin Orbit Expands Space Solutions Business With Hypersat Investment
Dec 20, 2021 (SPX)
This investment will further expand Virgin Orbit's space solutions business by providing highly accurate electro-optic and hyperspectral imagery capabilities, w...
Fire and ice: The puzzling link between western wildfires and Arctic sea ice
Dec 20, 2021 (SPX)
But the relationship between fire and ice, in terms of Earth's climate, is not quite as "either or" as Frost depicted. In the case of a study presented at the 2...
Researchers identify new meteorological phenomenon dubbed atmospheric lakes
Dec 17, 2021 (SPX)
Brian Mapes, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Miami who recently noticed and described the unique storms, will present his findings on Thursday, 16...
Swarm and Cluster get to the bottom of geomagnetic storms
Dec 17, 2021 (ESA)
Using information from ESA's Cluster and Swarm missions along with measurements from the ground, scientists have, for the first time, been able to confirm that ...
Raytheon Intelligence and Space to build Space Force weather satellite prototype
Dec 17, 2021 (SPX)
"Continuing the DMSP EO/IR capability is critical to military planning for land, sea and air operations" said Paul Meyer, vice president of Space and C2 Systems...
MDA announces Chorus as new commercial EO mission
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
A collaborative multi-sensor constellation, CHORUS will bring together multiple diverse and unique perspectives in harmony, opening the aperture and the art of ...
BlackSky achieves highest revisit, dawn-to-dusk satellite coverage
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
In less than 30 days the company launched six satellites on three different missions using two launch providers across two continents. Following each respective...
NASA to launch 4 Earth Science Missions in 2022
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
NASA has a unique view of our planet from space. NASA's fleet of Earth-observing satellites provide high quality data on Earth's interconnected environment, fro...
NCAR's mini-satellite to measure howling winds high in atmosphere
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
The blustery winds in the thermosphere - the upper layer of the atmosphere that thins into space and which hosts orbiting satellites and dazzling auroras - can ...
Solely European supply chain for space-qualified Alexandrite laser crystals on the horizon
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
Laser crystals made of Alexandrite have a tunable wavelength between approx. 700 nm and 850 nm. When used in LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) systems in sate...
BlackSky continues operational momentum with two back-to-back launches in six days
Dec 08, 2021 (SPX)
"BlackSky is pushing the boundaries of operational pace and agility in how we introduce new satellite capacity to customers," said Nick Merski, BlackSky chief o...
How TIMED Flies
Dec 08, 2021 (SPX)
TIMED's contributions over the last 20 years have influenced missions across NASA, especially in the field of heliophysics, the science of the Sun-Earth system....
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