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NASA ISRO radar satellite beams first Earth images from space
Sep 29, 2025 (SPX)
Launched by ISRO on July 30, NISAR is designed to provide unprecedented insights into natural hazards, agriculture, and climate change. Its first L-band synthet...
South Asia monsoon: climate change's dangerous impact on lifeline rains
Sep 26, 2025 (AFP)
Farming, water supplies and hydropower across much of South Asia rely on the seasonal rains, but research shows climate change is causing longer dry spells punc...
New NASA Mission to Reveal Earth's Invisible 'Halo'
Sep 25, 2025 (SPX)
Revealing Earth's invisible edge In the early 1970s, scientists could only speculate about how far Earth's atmosphere extended into space. The mystery was roote...
Starcloud partners with Mission Space to protect orbital datacenters with real time space weather intelligence
Sep 22, 2025 (SPX)
The integration will supply Starcloud with high-resolution data and predictive analytics, allowing its orbital platforms to dynamically adjust power and thermal...
SSTL and IHI agree to develop Japanese ISR constellation
Sep 17, 2025 (SPX)
The partnership aligns with the 2023 Hiroshima Accord and commitments reaffirmed by UK and Japanese defence ministers in Tokyo in August 2025. SSTL and IHI will...
ICEYE unveils Gen4 satellite with expanded coverage and sharper SAR imaging
Sep 17, 2025 (SPX)
The Gen4 design emphasizes speed and scalability. Each satellite can produce up to 500 images per day, half of which can be focused within a 2,000-km-wide zone....
Ozone layer 'healing', on track to recover by mid-century: UN
Sep 16, 2025 (AFP)
A fresh report from the UN's World Meteorological Organization highlighted that the ozone hole over the Antarctic was smaller in 2024 than in recent years, in w...
AI tool accelerates SAR image analysis with automated object detection
Sep 07, 2025 (SPX)
The new product package delivers both SAR imagery and derived classifications in a single dataset, significantly reducing the time required for intelligence gat...
AI powered SAR imagery analysis tool launched by SATIM and ICEYE
Sep 07, 2025 (SPX)
The product integrates ICEYE's high resolution SAR data with SATIM's proprietary artificial intelligence models, delivering both imagery and automated detection...
Spire wins NOAA pair of satellite weather data contracts totaling 13.7 million
Sep 07, 2025 (SPX)
The larger award is an $11,190,900 task order for one year, running from Sep 18, 2025 through Sep 18, 2026, to deliver GNSS radio occultation (GNSS-RO) profiles...
Earth wobble measured with unmatched precision by ring laser
Sep 07, 2025 (SPX)
Lead author Prof. K. Ulrich Schreiber of TUM's Institute of Engineering for Astronomical and Physical Geodesy explained that these measurements provide critical...
Hidden chemistry of Earth core revealed through freezing process
Sep 07, 2025 (SPX)
This finding suggests that carbon is more abundant in the core than previously assumed and that it played a crucial role in the emergence of the inner core. The...
Second Meteosat Third Generation Imager completes thermal testing ahead of Ariane 2 launch
Sep 07, 2025 (SPX)
Francesco Cainero, ESA's Lead Space Segment engineer, said "These huge temperature variations pose difficulties and risks at both hot and cold plateaus during t...
Metop SGA1 begins delivering atmospheric data weeks after launch
Sep 03, 2025 (SPX)
Metop-SGA1 is the first satellite in the EUMETSAT Polar System - Second Generation, designed to enhance Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) and provide vital atm...
Pixxel expands Firefly fleet advancing global hyperspectral satellite imaging
Sep 03, 2025 (SPX)
The Fireflies operate collectively as the most advanced commercial hyperspectral imaging system to date. Each satellite records more than 135 spectral bands at ...
First data released from Beyond Gravity instrument on new weather sat
Sep 03, 2025 (SPX)
Launched in mid-August from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on an Ariane 6 rocket, the Metop Second Generation satellite has now begun returning preliminary...
Global study maps regions most threatened by ocean plastic pollution
Sep 03, 2025 (SPX)
The analysis shows that the most at-risk zones are not always the infamous garbage patches but often areas where plastic overlaps with dense marine life and che...
NASA Scientists Map Plant Productivity with Data from Ocean Satellite
Sep 02, 2025 (SPX)
Monitoring the productivity, or how efficiently plants are producing energy through photosynthesis, is essential across various landscapes to sustain ecosystems...
Scientists track lightning pollution in real time using NASA satellite
Sep 02, 2025 (SPX)
Yet, that's exactly what occurs during a thunderstorm. For the first time, scientists from the University of Maryland were able to detect lightning and its impa...
NISAR clears on orbit checks and readies for science data flow
Sep 01, 2025 (SPX)
he first dual-SAR mission, NISAR's 24-centimeter L-band maps motion, biomass, and soil moisture beneath forest canopies, while its 10-centimeter S-band tracks f...
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