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EO-Lab is Launched - Your Access to Earth Observation Data
Jul 14, 2022 (SPX)
The new platform provides innovative cloud technology and Artificial Intelligence for the analysis of a large number of Earth observation missions. Thanks to co...
Planet signs contract to provide German Federal Agencies with daily satellite imagery
Jul 13, 2022 (SPX)
Access to Planet's satellite data will help the BKG promote public and civil safety throughout the Federal Republic of Germany. The collaboration was launched i...
Great Air Quality for the Great Lakes Region
Jul 12, 2022 (SPX)
The unique weather of the Lake Michigan shoreline can create pockets of high levels of ground-level ozone. This air pollutant is created by emissions from cars,...
Physics professor selected for NASA mission
Jul 11, 2022 (SPX)
GDC is a coordinated group of satellites that will provide the first direct global measurements of the region of space enveloping earth known as the ionosphere ...
Ozone depletion over North Pole produces weather anomalies
Jul 11, 2022 (SPX)
Each time the ozone layer has been thinned out, climate researchers subsequently observed weather anomalies across the entire northern hemisphere. In central an...
Discovery reveals large, year-round ozone hole over tropics
Jul 06, 2022 (SPX)
In AIP Advances, by AIP Publishing, Qing-Bin Lu, a scientist from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, reveals a large, all-season ozone hole - define...
Synspective releases First Image from its Small SAR Satellite StriX-ss that captures 3 cities around the world
Jul 06, 2022 (SPX)
"StriX-ss" was launched by Rocket Lab's Electron from New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula launch site on March 1, 2022 (JST) and put into target orbit at an altitude ...
Earth from Space: Patagonia
Jul 06, 2022 (ESA)
Covering an area of around 673 000 sq km, Patagonia is split by Argentina and Chile. The region comprises the southern section of the Andes Mountains, with lake...
NASA aircraft conducting atmospheric studies over DC to Baltimore
Jun 30, 2022 (SPX)
The four-engine turboprop P-3 aircraft, based at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, will fly five days during the 12-day period at altitudes from 1,000...
Researchers measure atmospheric water vapor using open-air spectroscopy
Jun 30, 2022 (SPX)
"Open-path sensing using dual frequency combs may make atmospheric water vapor isotopologue sensing simpler and easier to apply in remote environments. A broade...
MDA provides Global Fishing Watch access to Radarsat-2 archive to help combat illegal fishing
Jun 29, 2022 (SPX)
MDA is providing Global Fishing Watch (GFW) - an international non-governmental organization committed to advancing the sustainability of our oceans through inc...
Contract secures design for ESA's FORUM satellite
Jun 28, 2022 (ESA)
Short for Far-infrared Outgoing Radiation Understanding and Monitoring, FORUM is ESA's ninth Earth Explorer mission. Realised within ESA's FutureEO programme, E...
China launches new batch of remote sensing satellites
Jun 24, 2022 (XNA)
The satellites were launched as the second batch of the Yaogan-35 family at 10:22 a.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-2D carrier rocket and entered the planned ...
How do you process space data and imagery in low earth orbit?
Jun 24, 2022 (SPX)
Bandwidth is limited on orbit due to limited infrastructure: traditional computing resources are bound by the conditions of human spaceflight while data transpo...
Freedom's Fortress
Jun 22, 2022 (JPL)
In August 1619, two British-owned privateer ships-the White Lion and the Treasurer-came ashore at Old Point Comfort and delivered 20 to 30 captive Africans in e...
Airbus delivers third radar for Copernicus' Sentinel-1 mission with a world premiere
Jun 22, 2022 (SPX)
The C-band radar beam the instrument produces can determine changes in the Earth's surface with an accuracy of a few millimetres, supplying imagery for maritime...
BlackSky awarded Five-Year Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Contract for AI Data Readiness
Jun 22, 2022 (SPX)
"With demonstrated AI expertise in space-based dynamic monitoring, this agreement will open even more doors for BlackSky to contribute its unique value to the d...
German radar satellite TerraSAR-X - 15 years in space and still in perfect shape
Jun 16, 2022 (SPX)
As it turns 15, TerraSAR-X can look back on 83,050 orbits of Earth, having travelled approximately 3.59 billion kilometres - a vast distance. If the satellite w...
NASA's ECOSTRESS sees Las Vegas streets turn up the heat
Jun 16, 2022 (JPL)
Within the city, the hottest surfaces were the streets - the grid of dark red lines in the center of the image. Pavement temperatures exceeded 122 F (50 C), whi...
Unravelling the mysteries of clouds
Jun 14, 2022 (SPX)
The 2.3-tonne satellite is now being transported from the Airbus site in Friedrichshafen, Germany, to the European Space Agency's ESTEC technology centre in Noo...
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