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Improving Alignment and Testing of Earth Observation Satellites
Nov 13, 2018 (SPX)
Based in Guildford, UK, Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) manufacture and operate small to medium sized satellites, covering a range of use cases, from...
OpenForests launches the forest project platform explorer.land
Nov 12, 2018 (SPX)
"We believe that explorer.land will cause a substantial paradigm shift in the way sustainable forest and landscape projects are presented to the world," says Dr...
Illegal emissions threaten to undermine UN's optimistic ozone report
Nov 08, 2018 (UPI)
Earlier this week, the United Nations issued a press release confirming the Earth's ozone layer continues to heal. The release called the news a "ray of hope" i...
Europe's third polar-orbiting weather satellite lofted into orbit
Nov 07, 2018 (ESA)
Carrying the 4083 kg MetOp-C satellite, the Soyuz rocket lifted off on 7 November at 00:47 GMT (01:47 CET). Some 60 minutes later Soyuz's upper stage delivered ...
Orbit Logic delivers Landsat mission planning system
Nov 07, 2018 (SPX)
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded the Landsat Multi-satellite Operations Center (LMOC) contract to the General Dynamics team to develop and carry out op...
NASA's ICON to explore boundary between Earth and Space
Nov 07, 2018 (SPX)
Overlapping the farthest reaches of Earth's atmosphere and the very beginning of space, the ionosphere stretches roughly 50 to 400 miles above the surface. Sola...
The cloud will save time, money, and reduce errors in the mapping process
Nov 06, 2018 (SPX)
In order to maintain the accuracy and reliability of maps, Geographical Information System (GIS) companies and GIS professionals need to go through a lengthy pr...
MetOp-C ready for big day
Nov 06, 2018 (ESA)
MetOp-C is the last in the current series of MetOp satellites, following on from MetOp-A and MetOp-B, which were launched in 2006 and 2012, respectively. Launch...
GRACE-FO resumes data collection
Nov 05, 2018 (JPL)
The in-orbit checks include calibrations and other system tests, and are expected to continue until January, when GRACE-FO will enter the science phase of its m...
What's in the air? There's more to it than we thought
Nov 05, 2018 (SPX)
Using high-powered equipment to analyze air samples, the researchers were able to get a detailed look at the molecular makeup of organic aerosols, which have a ...
Ozone hole in northern hemisphere to recover completely by 2030
Nov 05, 2018 (UPI)
The study, "Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2018," published Monday by the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization, highlighted the d...
Ozone hole modest despite optimum conditions for ozone depletion
Nov 05, 2018 (SPX)
Colder-than-average temperatures in the Antarctic stratosphere created ideal conditions for destroying ozone this year, but declining levels of ozone-depleting ...
A shortcut in the global sulfur cycle
Nov 02, 2018 (SPX)
These are passed around by organisms before finally reaching the atmosphere, where they are oxidized before they return to the land and seas in the rain. While ...
Controlling future summer weather extremes still within our grasp
Nov 01, 2018 (SPX)
These extreme paths for the jet stream bring about flooding, drought and wildfires. In 2018, summer weather included flooding in Japan, record heat waves in Nor...
Counting down to MetOp-C
Nov 01, 2018 (ESA)
As a collaborative undertaking between ESA and Eumetsat, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, ESA is responsible for bui...
Balloon measurements reveal dust particle properties in free troposphere over desert
Oct 31, 2018 (SPX)
In a paper recently published in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, Dr. Ammara Habib from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) of the Chinese Academ...
Study reveals how soil bacteria are primed to consume greenhouse gas
Oct 30, 2018 (SPX)
Previously it was thought that bacteria had to first sense nitrous oxide, also known as 'laughing gas', before they could breathe and consume it in place of oxy...
Japan launches environment monitoring satellite
Oct 29, 2018 (AFP)
The nation's H-IIA rocket lifted off Monday afternoon at 1:08 pm (0308 GMT) from the Tanegashima Space Centre, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agen...
Location of large mystery source of banned ozone depleting substance uncovered
Oct 29, 2018 (SPX)
As a result, the production of carbon tetrachloride has been banned throughout the world since 2010 for uses that will result in its release to the atmosphere. ...
China, France launch satellite to study climate change
Oct 29, 2018 (AFP)
A Long March 2C carrier rocket blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China's Gobi Desert at 0043 GMT, according to China's State Adm...
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