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African team to fly free a climate monitoring payload on ISS
Oct 28, 2021 (SPX)
The winning 'ClimCam' team consists of specialists from different fields and symbolizes the power of international cooperation, bringing together researchers fr...
Satellites used to track methane leaks in climate fight
Oct 27, 2021 (AFP)
The source of the immense leak discovered in 2019 was never officially confirmed -- and it is only one of many. The satellite map shows blotches of colour splat...
OpenET: A satellite-based water data resource
Oct 26, 2021 (SPX)
Evapotranspiration is the process through which water leaves plants, soils, and other surfaces and returns to the atmosphere. It's a measurement that farmers ca...
UC San Diego physicist helps launch national network examining Earth's planetary limits
Oct 26, 2021 (SPX)
The essay, "Modernity is Incompatible with Planetary Limits: Developing a PLAN for the Future," also announces the establishment of a network of scholars and re...
Researchers find standing waves at edge of earth's magnetic bubble
Oct 26, 2021 (SPX)
Studying these magnetospheric waves, which transport energy, helps scientists understand the complicated ways that solar activity plays out in the space around ...
NASA, NOAA scientists: Earth's ozone hole slightly smaller
Oct 26, 2021 (UPI)
The ozone hole covers an average area of 8.91 million square miles compared with an average of 8.99 million square miles last year. That's well below the 2006 p...
ESA moves forward with Destination Earth
Oct 25, 2021 (ESA)
Last week, at the ESA Council, Member States approved a 'Contribution Agreement', which paves the way for cooperation with the European Commission on the Destin...
Bomb cyclone slams rain-starved US west, bringing floods
Oct 25, 2021 (AFP)
Severe thunderstorms deluged the northern part of the state, with strong winds pummeling the area, toppling powerlines and trees and leaving at least two people...
The climate project that changed how we understand extreme weather
Oct 22, 2021 (AFP)
Fast forward to 2021. As extreme heat scorched North America, the same scientists from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group concluded that the record-shatt...
Europe reels from powerful 'Aurore' storm
Oct 21, 2021 (AFP)
All four deaths in Poland occurred in the Lower Silesia region. One person was killed when a van was blown off the road and a builder died when a wall of a hous...
AMOS' compact hyperspectral instrument ELOIS to onboard a microsatellite soon
Oct 21, 2021 (SPX)
Thanks to the financial support of the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO), this co-funded project will deliver the payload to be integrated on an InnoSat pl...
NASA Turns to the Cloud for Help With Next-Generation Earth Missions
Oct 18, 2021 (JPL)
"About five or six years ago, there was a realization that future Earth missions were going to be generating a huge volume of data and that the systems we were ...
Working towards a Digital Twin of Earth
Oct 18, 2021 (ESA)
In the coming decades, population growth and human activities are expected to amplify the current pressures on critical resources such as fresh water and food, ...
AAC Clyde Space to supply core avionics to Arctic weather satellite
Oct 05, 2021 (SPX)
OHB Sweden is the mission prime contractor for the Arctic Weather Satellite, providing the satellite platform and system integration. AAC Clyde Space has been c...
First Copernicus satellite exceeds design working life
Oct 05, 2021 (ESA)
Launched on 3 April 2014 and delivering a stream of operational data by the beginning October 2014, Copernicus Sentinel-1A marked a new era in global environmen...
Earth from Space: Mackenzie River, Canada
Oct 04, 2021 (ESA)
The Mackenzie River flows through a vast region of forest and tundra through the Northwest Territories from the Great Slave Lake to the Beaufort Sea in the Arct...
NASA software helps weather forecasting around the globe
Oct 04, 2021 (SPX)
From Ground to Orbit In the 1990s, Ella Herz was a contractor for Rockwell at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, where she developed software for space shu...
Earth is dimming due to climate change
Oct 01, 2021 (SPX)
The Earth is now reflecting about half a watt less light per square meter than it was 20 years ago, with most of the drop occurring in the last three years of e...
NASA selects partners for Geostationary and Extended Observations Sounder Phase A Studies
Oct 01, 2021 (SPX)
The total value of this twenty-month firm-fixed-price contract is approximately $8M. The work will be performed at the contractor's facility in Fort Wayne, Indi...
China launches high-resolution Earth-observation satellite
Sep 29, 2021 (XNA)
The State-owned space contractor said in a statement the solid-propellant rocket blasted off at 2:19 pm at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern C...
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