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China launches new optical remote-sensing satellite
Sep 08, 2020 (XNA)
The Gaofen-11 02 satellite was launched by a Long March-4B rocket at 1:57 p.m. (Beijing Time), according to the center. It was the 345th flight mission by a Lon...
ESA launches small Belgian satellite carrying VTT's remote sensing technology into space
Sep 07, 2020 (SPX)
PICASSO stands for PICo-Satellite for Atmospheric and Space Science Observations. It is the first CubeSat nanosatellite mission of the Royal Belgian Institute f...
NASA 'eyes' arrival of new NOAA weather satellite's 1st instrument
Sep 07, 2020 (SPX)
The third satellite of the JPSS series, NOAA's JPSS-2 is preparing for launch in 2022 to continue the critical flow of weather and environmental data to users l...
Momentus awarded NASA TROPICS Pathfinder mission
Sep 07, 2020 (SPX)
NASA selected the Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats (TROPICS) constellation mission as...
Vega lofts exactEarth's ESAIL microsatellite
Sep 04, 2020 (SPX)
The satellite will undergo commissioning testing over the next few months and then will be brought into service to provide advanced high-performance vessel dete...
Space Flight Laboratory reports dual launch of atmospheric microsats
Sep 04, 2020 (SPX)
Both satellites were in contact with ground control within hours of their launch on September 2, 2020, aboard an Arianespace Vega rocket from the Guiana Space C...
Commercial satellite imagery market is growing.
Sep 01, 2020 (SPX)
The analyses by the Allied Market Research show that the global importance of satellite images for commercial purposes is growing rapidly. Especially as the pub...
A cloud-free Iceland
Aug 31, 2020 (ESA)
The large, white area visible on the island is a national park that encompasses the Vatnajokull Glacier. Covering an area of around 8400 sq km with an average i...
Improving weather forecasts with observations from the microwave instruments onboard China's FY-3D satellite
Aug 27, 2020 (UPI)
The latest platform in the programme, FY-3D, carries the Microwave Temperature Sounder 2 (MWTS-2), the Microwave Humidity Sounder 2 (MWHS-2), and the Microwave ...
Observation satellite starts formal duties
Aug 25, 2020 (XNA)
At a handover ceremony at the China National Space Administration on Thursday morning, designers of the Gaofen 7 announced that the satellite had begun serving ...
New data product warns Alaska pilots of clouds, dangerously cold weather
Aug 24, 2020 (SPX)
Starting next month, scientists will start the first round of testing of this product on flight paths over Alaska. The product, which combines cloud measurement...
Gaofen 7 observation satellite starts formal duties
Aug 24, 2020 (XNA)
China's best optical Earth-observation satellite for civil use has finished its in-orbit tests and started formal operation on Thursday. At a handover ceremony ...
Ozone levels across Northern Hemisphere have been rising for 20 years
Aug 21, 2020 (UPI)
In the upper layers of the atmosphere, the ozone layer helps protect Earth and its inhabitants from harmful ultraviolet radiation. But closer to Earth's surface...
EOS Data Analytics facilitates satellite data to make Europe's mining industry safer
Aug 19, 2020 (SPX)
The project will develop solutions that improve safety, environmental impact, and profitability of mines by creating a platform that combines Earth observation ...
Ball Aerospace completes airborne flights of small instruments to enable future Landsat missions
Aug 19, 2020 (SPX)
Designed to demonstrate improved Landsat mission performance in compact instrument packages, the REMI-AB and CHPS-AB instruments have evolved over nearly four y...
China set to launch two advanced marine satellites in 2021
Aug 19, 2020 (XNA)
Jiang Xingwei, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and former director of the National Satellite Ocean Application Service, said in a statement...
NASA researchers track slowly splitting 'dent' in Earth's magnetic field
Aug 18, 2020 (SPX)
Earth's magnetic field acts like a protective shield around the planet, repelling and trapping charged particles from the Sun. But over South America and the so...
Meteorological satellites keep eye on clouds
Aug 16, 2020 (XNA)
High above their heads, several Chinese meteorological satellites are also staring at moving cloud clusters and transmitting data and images back to an inconspi...
Sentinel-1C radar antenna has spread its wings for the first time
Aug 16, 2020 (SPX)
Sentinel-1C is the third of the Sentinel-1 radar satellite series and will ensure data continuity for the many services offered by the EU's Copernicus programme...
Clemson doctoral candidate uses rockets to surf the Alaskan sky
Aug 12, 2020 (SPX)
Mesquita and a multi-institutional research team documented "surfer waves" in the upper atmosphere that create a pipeline of energy between layers in space. Jus...
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