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L3Harris high-resolution weather instrument set to launch on NOAA's GOES-T
Feb 24, 2022 (SPX)
The ABI provides high-resolution video of weather and environmental systems using 16 spectral bands delivering three times the amount of spectral coverage, four...
NASA develops technology to dissect the lower atmosphere
Feb 24, 2022 (SPX)
"The planetary boundary layer is where we live and where we experience weather," NASA Researcher Dr. Antonia Gambacorta said. "It's been studied in great detail...
New sensor paves way for mapping the world under Earth surface
Feb 24, 2022 (SPX)
University of Birmingham researchers from the UK National Quantum Technology Hub in Sensors and Timing have reported their achievement in Nature. It is the firs...
Monitoring Arctic permafrost with satellites, supercomputers, and deep learning
Feb 23, 2022 (SPX)
As global warming heats the Earth and causes soil thawing, the permafrost carbon cycle is expected to accelerate and release soil-contained greenhouse gases int...
The second-generation PRISMA Earth observation system gets underway
Feb 23, 2022 (SPX)
Lasting nine months, the feasibility study will take an innovative approach to support the development of applications in both national and international market...
The jet stream that brought in Storm Eunice is moving northwards
Feb 23, 2022 (SPX)
Just this week the jet stream has brought storms Dudley, Eunice and Franklin to the UK. Jet streams are fast bands of air which flow around the globe around ten...
NOAA's GOES-T Satellite Road to Launch: Final Preparations
Feb 21, 2022 (SPX)
GOES-T is scheduled to launch aboard an Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on March 1, 2022, joining...
How to look thousands of kilometers deep into the Earth?
Feb 21, 2022 (SPX)
The problem of density measurement under extreme conditions In geosciences, the density of minerals, rocks, and melts at pressures up to several million atmosph...
ABB secures order for near real-time satellite imaging technology
Feb 17, 2022 (SPX)
Multispectral imaging systems capture data at specific light frequencies across a wide spectrum, and the EarthDaily Constellation network of satellites will be ...
China's land-observing satellite starts to take pictures
Feb 15, 2022 (XNA)
China launched a Long March-4C rocket to place the L-SAR 01A satellite in space on Jan. 26. The satellite, equipped with L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), ...
Spire Global awarded NOAA contract to deliver satellite weather data
Feb 11, 2022 (SPX)
The award is the next milestone in NOAA's goal to expand the purchase of commercial RO data. It is an increase in the number of RO profiles that Spire provides ...
Magellan Aerospace to supply subsystems for CHORUS EO Satellite
Feb 11, 2022 (SPX)
Magellan has expertise in the development of satellites buses and spacecraft avionics. In 2019, Magellan delivered three satellite buses for the Canadian Space ...
Earth from Space: Hereford, Texas
Feb 11, 2022 (ESA)
The area is known for its semiarid climate, with heavy farming and ranching sustained by irrigation from the Ogallala Aquifer - a massive underground reservoir ...
Spire Global completes acquisition of exactEarth
Feb 10, 2022 (SPX)
The Arrangement, which was announced on September 14, 2021, was approved by exactEarth's shareholders at a special meeting held on November 18, 2021 and exactEa...
Earth's inner core: a mixture of solid Fe and liquid-like light elements
Feb 10, 2022 (SPX)
The inner core is formed and grows due to the solidification of liquid iron at the inner core boundary. The inner core is less dense than pure iron, and some li...
New vertical map of airborne microorganisms indicates how global warming will impact global ecosystems
Feb 09, 2022 (SPX)
Using a combination of a 200-metre meteorological tower and a research aircraft that circled at different heights from 300 metres to 3,500 metres to gather the ...
Operational Optical Data Services for Meteosat Satellites
Feb 09, 2022 (SPX)
The main purpose of the service is the regular provision of high accuracy optical data and orbit determination solutions, fully integrated with the EUMETSAT ope...
EOMAP awarded new survey contract by UKHO
Feb 09, 2022 (SPX)
"The UKHO is pleased to be continuing our partnership with EOMAP, leveraging cutting-edge survey technology like SDB to supplement existing hydrographic surveyi...
New Space-Based Weather Instruments Start Gathering Data
Feb 09, 2022 (JPL)
COWVR and TEMPEST launched on Dec. 21, 2021, with SpaceX's 24th commercial resupply mission for NASA. Both instruments are microwave radiometers, measuring vari...
Tonga eruption sent ripples through Earth's ionosphere
Feb 04, 2022 (JPL)
When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, 2022, it unleashed a violent explosion with the equivalent force of 4 to 18 megatons of TNT, acco...
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