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AI model estimates state of economy in North Korea, other countries
Nov 23, 2023 (UPI)
The team, headed by Professor Cha Mee-young of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, said Tuesday it had taken satellite images produced by the Eu...
NASA's PACE arrives in Florida for final processing for 2024 launch
Nov 22, 2023 (SPX)
Engineers and technicians arrived ahead of the spacecraft to prepare ground equipment for offloading and processing before fueling and final encapsulation. PACE...
Trailblazing New Earth Satellite Put to Test in Preparation for Launch
Nov 21, 2023 (SPX)
NISAR, the trailblazing Earth-observing radar satellite being developed by the United States and Indian space agencies, passed a major milestone on Nov. 13, eme...
Antarctic ozone hole getting deeper in mid-spring, research suggests
Nov 21, 2023 (AFP)
The ozone layer 11 to 40 kilometres (seven to 25 miles) above Earth's surface filters out most of the Sun's ultraviolet radiation, which can cause skin cancer a...
Massive 2022 eruption reduced ozone levels
Nov 21, 2023 (SPX)
Driving those atmospheric changes, according to the research, was the sheer amount of water vapor injected into the stratosphere by the undersea volcano. The lo...
Satellite data can help limit the dangers of windblown dust
Nov 21, 2023 (JPL)
This stretch of Interstate 10 offers a concentrated example of the hazards that dust storms carry. But across the U.S. Great Plains, levels of windblown dust ha...
MetOp Second Generation weather satellite pair show off
Nov 20, 2023 (ESA)
As its name suggests, the MetOp Second Generation mission, or MetOp-SG for short, will follow-on from the first series of MetOp satellites, which currently prov...
Nations will exceed $200 mn methane finance pledge at COP28
Nov 17, 2023 (AFP)
Non-carbon dioxide greenhouse gases contribute to more than half of the climate change the planet is currently undergoing, but receive far less attention. In Ap...
EagleView Unveils Developer Portal to Enhance Geospatial Intelligence Integration
Nov 16, 2023 (SPX)
EagleView Developer emerges as a curated experience, equipped with a suite of tools including use cases, developer guides, an expanding API catalog, and a partn...
TRISAT-R CubeSat: A Glimpse of Earth through the Eye of a Coin-Sized Camera
Nov 10, 2023 (SPX)
The camera, described by TRISAT-R project manager Iztok Kramberger from the University of Maribor as "measuring less than two cubic millimeters," achieved the r...
China releases methane control plan with no reduction target
Nov 08, 2023 (AFP)
Beijing and Washington held climate talks this weekend in California, raising new hopes for headway at the COP28 summit in Dubai. China is the world's largest e...
TelePIX and Thrusters Unlimited to sell Geo-Info solutions across Latin America and Caribbean
Nov 03, 2023 (SPX)
The agreement, formalized on October 17th, denotes a culmination of year-long discussions, now cementing a shared trajectory for both entities in the developmen...
China places multipurpose satellite into space
Nov 02, 2023 (XNA)
The State-owned space conglomerate said in a news release the Tianhui 5 satellite was transported by a Long March 6A rocket that blasted off at 6:50 am from the...
2023 Ozone Hole Ranks 16th Largest, NASA and NOAA Researchers Find
Nov 02, 2023 (SPX)
During the peak of the ozone depletion season from Sept. 7 to Oct. 13, the hole this year averaged 8.9 million square miles (23.1 million square kilometers), ap...
Ozone hole reached 12th-largest single-day size in September despite improving overall
Nov 01, 2023 (UPI)
"The 2023 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size at 10 million square miles (26 million square kilometers) on September 21, which ranks as the 12th large...
Cold War spy satellite imagery reveals Ancient Roman forts
Oct 31, 2023 (SPX)
In the 1920s, 116 forts were documented in the region by Father Antoine Poidebard, who conducted one of the world's first aerial surveys using a WWI-era biplane...
AWE launching to Space Station to study atmospheric waves via airglow
Oct 30, 2023 (SPX)
Built by Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory in North Logan, Utah, AWE will be mounted on the exterior of the space station. From this perch, AWE ...
Gearing up for EarthCARE
Oct 30, 2023 (ESA)
Following years of rigorous development and extensive testing, the satellite is now undergoing its final round of tests in Europe before being shipped to the la...
Six trends to watch in commercial Earth observation
Oct 30, 2023 (ESA)
To set the scene ahead of ESA's Earth Observation Commercialisation Forum next week, here is some need-to-know background information on the evolution and state...
MDA Selects Spacex to launch Chorus Constellation
Oct 26, 2023 (SPX)
A collaborative multi-sensor constellation, CHORUS will bring together diverse and unique imagery and data sources and provide a new level of near real-time ins...
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