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Ice shards in Antarctic clouds let more solar energy reach Earth's surface
Apr 14, 2022 (SPX)
The paper, published March 4 in the open-access journal AGU Advances, shows that including this ice-splintering process improves the ability of high-resolution ...
China receives data from newly launched GF-3 03 satellite
Apr 14, 2022 (SPX)
At 4 p.m. that day, the Miyun Station at the outskirts of Beijing successfully completed the satellite-ground connection test, and completed the tracking, recei...
Planet releases slew of datasets for planetary variables
Apr 13, 2022 (SPX)
This novel data product is a result of the increased product capabilities gained by Planet's recent acquisition of Earth analytics company VanderSat. The data s...
Modeling Earth's Magnetosphere in the Lab
Apr 13, 2022 (SPX)
In Physics of Plasmas, by AIP Publishing, scientists from Princeton, UCLA, and the Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal, report a method to study smaller magnet...
China launches new satellite for Earth observation
Apr 08, 2022 (XNA)
The satellite, Gaofen-3 03, was launched by a Long March-4C rocket at 7:47 a.m. (Beijing Time) and has entered the planned orbit successfully. The satellite wil...
Chinese satellite ground station receives Landsat-9 data
Apr 08, 2022 (XNA)
The station has received data from the Landsat-5 since 1986. It also provides Landsat-7 and Landsat-8 observation data for users. There are five branch stations...
Earth from Space: Sindh, Pakistan
Apr 08, 2022 (ESA)
Sindh stretches around 580 km from north to south in southern Pakistan, covering an area of around 141 000 sq km. It is bounded by the Thar Desert to the east, ...
MetOp-SG-B weather satellite: Scatterometer flies through tests
Apr 07, 2022 (SPX)
The SAS protoflight model underwent a lengthy test campaign where it was subjected to the extreme conditions that it will encounter during launch and in-orbit o...
Australian SMEs team up to deliver high-resolution Hyperspectral Earth Observation microsatellites
Apr 06, 2022 (SPX)
Executives from the Australian companies announced the HyperSight 60 constellation agreement jointly at the 37th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colo., an ...
Satellite images show bodies in Bucha for weeks, rebutting Moscow claim
Apr 05, 2022 (AFP)
Since its February 24 invasion of Ukraine, Russia has faced both fierce resistance from Kyiv's forces and growing accusations it has carried out war crimes and ...
BlackSky expands constellation to 14 satellites
Apr 05, 2022 (SPX)
Without Mission a Beat" on Saturday, April 2. This mission marks the fourth BlackSky satellite launch mission in the last four months. "Our world needs real-tim...
Satellogic launches 5 more satellites on SpaceX Transporter-4 mission
Apr 01, 2022 (SPX)
The launch marks the first deployment of Satellogic's new Mark V satellite model. The Mark V features improved cameras, radios, computers, and other subsystems ...
Ozone may be heating the planet more than we realise
Apr 01, 2022 (SPX)
A new study has revealed that changes to ozone levels in the upper and lower atmosphere were responsible for almost a third of the warming seen in ocean waters ...
German satellite EnMAP launches successfully
Apr 01, 2022 (SPX)
At the same time, an (inter)national community of scientists was formed to define the user requirements and objectives for the first German hyperspectral missio...
Harmony in the Wadden
Apr 01, 2022 (ESA)
The Harmony candidate mission concept is currently undergoing the last stages of preparation prior to being put forward as the Earth Explorer 10 flagship missio...
Environmental data for researchers worldwide
Mar 31, 2022 (SPX)
These data allow precise conclusions to be drawn about conditions and changes on Earth's surface. The German Space Agency at DLR in Bonn is leading this unique ...
Japanese space industry startup Synspective raises US $100M
Mar 30, 2022 (SPX)
Synspective Inc. develops and operates high-frequency, high-resolution SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellites to provide data analytics and solution services...
Solid aerosols found in Arctic atmosphere could impact cloud formation
Mar 30, 2022 (SPX)
So when researchers from the lab of University of Michigan aerosol scientist Kerri Pratt collected aerosols from the Arctic atmosphere during summer 2015, Rache...
Planet-scale MRI
Mar 30, 2022 (SPX)
Seismologists have developed methods to take wave signals from the networks of seismometers at the Earth's surface and reverse engineer features and characteris...
Momentus' Vigoride vehicle completes thermal vacuum testing
Mar 29, 2022 (SPX)
Thermal vacuum testing allows for the simulation of space conditions, including the temperature and altitude that the Vigoride spacecraft will experience during...
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