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Ball Aerospace completes preliminary design review of NOAA's Space Weather Satellite
Jul 30, 2021 (SPX)
Ball was awarded the contract to design and build the SWFO-L1 spacecraft on June 25, 2020 by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center on behalf of NOAA. SWFO-L1 is an...
Kleos establishes partnership with Japan Space Imaging Corporation for promotion in Japan
Jul 30, 2021 (SPX)
Under the agreement, Kleos' RF geolocation data will enhance Japanese customers in their operations, such as defense of the homeland, and identification of illi...
Airbus completes integration of 3rd Copernicus Sentinel-2
Jul 30, 2021 (SPX)
The data gathered by Sentinel-2 satellites are used for monitoring land use and changes, soil sealing, land management, agriculture, forestry, natural disasters...
Earth's 'vital signs' worsening as humanity's impact deepens
Jul 28, 2021 (AFP)
The researchers, part of a group of more than 14,000 scientists who have signed on to an initiative declaring a worldwide climate emergency, said that governmen...
China launches home-grown aeronautic remote-sensing system
Jul 24, 2021 (XNA)
The Chinese Aeronautic Remote Sensing System, which consists of two medium-sized manned aircraft together with a range of remote-sensing technologies, was devel...
How a sudden stratospheric warming affected the Northern Hemisphere
Jul 24, 2021 (SPX)
In sudden stratospheric warmings (SSWs) - large meteorological disturbances related to the polar vortex in which the polar stratosphere temperature increases as...
A machine learning breakthrough: using satellite images to improve human lives
Jul 21, 2021 (SPX)
Now, a team based at the University of California, Berkeley, has devised a machine learning system to tap the problem-solving potential of satellite imaging, us...
The origin of bifurcated current sheets explained
Jul 21, 2021 (SPX)
A POSTECH joint research team led by Professor Gunsu S. Yun of the Department of Physics and Division of Advanced Nuclear Engineering and Dr. Young Dae Yoon fro...
Global satellite data shows clouds will amplify global heating
Jul 20, 2021 (SPX)
The research, by scientists at Imperial College London and the University of East Anglia, is the strongest evidence yet that clouds will amplify global heating ...
MEASAT-3 Satellite Updates
Jul 19, 2021 (SPX)
To date, almost all customer services on MEASAT-3 have been restored onto backup satellite capacity on other co-located MEASAT satellites and third-party satell...
NASA mission explores intense summertime thunderstorms
Jul 19, 2021 (SPX)
As part of NASA's Earth Science Division, the Dynamics and Chemistry of the Summer Stratosphere, or DCOTSS, project will be flying out of Salina, Kansas during ...
30 years of China's meteorological satellite data
Jul 14, 2021 (SPX)
With more than 30 years of Earth observational data freely available to international partners, the Fengyun Meteorological Satellite program works as part of Ea...
Swarm yields new insight into animal migration
Jul 12, 2021 (ESA)
These days, it is almost unimaginable for us to set off on a long journey without being equipped with some form of satellite navigation, or at least a map. Migr...
Blackjack program deploys two Mandrake 2 satellites
Jul 08, 2021 (SPX)
Conceived as an early risk-reduction flight for DARPA's Blackjack program, the Mandrake 2 mission will prove out advanced laser communications technologies for ...
NASA Space Lasers Map Meltwater Lakes in Antarctica With Striking Precision
Jul 08, 2021 (SPX)
Now, with the most advanced Earth-observing laser instrument NASA has ever flown in space, scientists have improved their maps of these hidden lake systems unde...
Digital corrections for Sentinel-1 satellite images
Jul 07, 2021 (SPX)
Satellite-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) uses radar signals transmitted towards Earth's surface to acquire image data unconstrained by time of day and wea...
Pathfinder satellite paves way for constellation of tropical-storm observers
Jul 07, 2021 (SPX)
To provide a more consistent watch over Earth's tropical belt where these storms form, NASA has launched a test satellite, or pathfinder, ahead of a constellati...
NASA rocket, satellite tag-team to view the giant electric current in the sky
Jul 05, 2021 (SPX)
Following up on its predecessor's 2013 flight, the Dynamos, Winds, and Electric Fields in the Daytime Lower Ionosphere-2, or Dynamo-2, sounding rocket mission w...
NASA satellites see upper atmosphere cooling and contracting due to climate change
Jul 01, 2021 (SPX)
"You need several decades to get a handle on these trends and isolate what's happening due to greenhouse gas emissions, solar cycle changes, and other effects,"...
New approach could change how we track extreme air pollution events
Jul 01, 2021 (SPX)
In the United States, the primary sources of outdoor air-quality data are from ground-based, government-regulated air-quality monitoring systems that measure po...
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