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New nanosatellite system captures better imagery at lower cost
Jan 07, 2019 (SPX)
"This is an invention that completely changes the costs of space exploration, astronomy, aerial photography, and more," says Angika Bulbul, a BGU Ph.D. candidat...
Declining particulate pollution led to increased ozone pollution in China
Jan 02, 2019 (UPI)
China's government has made a concerted effort to reduce particle pollution in its biggest cities, spearheading the installation of more than 1,000 air quality ...
China launches six Yunhai-2 satellites for atmospheric environment research
Jan 01, 2019 (XNA)
They were launched by a Long March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 4:00 p.m. The six Yunhai-2 satellites will be used t...
Israeli researchers develop revolutionary space imaging system
Dec 28, 2018 (XNA)
A synthetic virtual aperture of an imaging system is much larger than a physical one. The revolutionary innovation in the new system is that the physical apertu...
Reliable tropical weather pattern to change in a warming climate
Dec 28, 2018 (SPX)
This band of recurring weather, first described by scientists in 1971, is called the Madden-Julian Oscillation. It has profound effects on weather in distant pl...
New threat to ozone recovery
Dec 27, 2018 (SPX)
The dramatic turnaround is a direct result of regulations set by the 1987 Montreal Protocol, a global treaty under which nearly every country in the world, incl...
First detection of rain over the ocean by navigation satellites
Dec 21, 2018 (SPX)
A new approach by a team around Milad Asgarimehr, who works in the GFZ section for Space Geodetic Techniques and at the Technical University of Ber-lin, togethe...
Research reveals 'fundamental finding' about Earth's outer core
Dec 21, 2018 (SPX)
For scientists like Florida State University Assistant Professor Mainak Mookherjee and his postdoctoral scholar Suraj Bajgain, whose lives' work is to penetrate...
HyperScout demonstrates that satellite imagery can be processed in space
Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)
The HyperScout 1 camera, launched in February on board the GOMX-4B satellite, produced the so-called Analysis Ready Data (ARD) on board for the first time. Hype...
Atmospheric aerosol formation from biogenic vapors is strongly affected by air pollutants
Dec 17, 2018 (SPX)
The human population has altered the composition of atmospheric gas in several ways. Sulfur dioxide from industrial emissions, nitrogen oxides from traffic, and...
ICESat-2 helps scientists measure ice thickness in the Weddell Sea
Dec 17, 2018 (UPI)
By mapping and tracking changes in the thickness of sea ice surrounding Antarctica, scientists hope to pinpoint when and where seasonal sea ice first grows. "We...
Ionosphere plasma experiments reviewed in a new Kazan University publication
Dec 14, 2018 (SPX)
Senior Research Associate of the Near Space Research Lab Vladimir Frolov explains, "There are currently three heating stands in the world. One is in Russia, it'...
Brazil keeps eye on Amazon deforestation with satellites
Dec 13, 2018 (AFP)
For three decades, a group of researchers have been monitoring forest clearing, agriculture and land use thanks to satellites orbiting the Earth and beaming ima...
First Radar Image from ICEYE-X2 Published Only A Week After Launch
Dec 13, 2018 (SPX)
First radar image from ICEYE-X2 of Natural Parks Aralar and Aizkorri-Aratz, Spain. The compressed image released to the public portrays the mountainous areas in...
BASF and VanderSat collaborate to provide farmers with high-precision, field-specific crop optimization
Dec 10, 2018 (SPX)
The technology will be an additional data source for BASF's xarvio Field Manager, a commercial product that for example calculates the risk of disease on a fiel...
Ball Aerospace delivers pollution monitoring instrument to NASA
Dec 10, 2018 (SPX)
"Ball Aerospace has more than 30 years of innovation in advanced spectrometers and expertise in producing cost-effective solutions for Earth observation and rem...
Experiments at PPPL show remarkable agreement with satellite sightings
Dec 10, 2018 (SPX)
The similarities show how the studies complement each other: The laboratory captures important global features of reconnection and the spacecraft documents loca...
exactEarth AIS Payload on the PAZ Radar Satellite is Now Live
Dec 10, 2018 (SPX)
Launched earlier in 2018, PAZ is in the dawn-dusk sun synchronous orbit that is occupied by a majority of the world's radar satellites. With an AIS payload onbo...
New ammonia emission sources detected from space
Dec 06, 2018 (SPX)
The IASI interferometer developed by the CNES allowed them to catalog more than 200 ammonia sources, two-thirds of which had never been identified before. These...
Copernicus Sentinel-5P ozone boosts daily forecasts
Dec 06, 2018 (ESA)
Launched in October 2017, Copernicus Sentinel-5P - short for Sentinel-5 Precursor - is the first Copernicus satellite dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. It...
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