NASA launches 8 mini-satellites for hurricane forecasting
NASA launched eight mini-satellites Thursday morning to measure surface wind deep in the heart of hurricanes.
Space Exploration
Dec 15, 2016
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News tagged with satellite services
Image: Mapping Chernobyl fires from space
With an outbreak of wildfires recently threatening the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, the Copernicus Emergency Mapping Service has been activated and the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite mission has imaged ...
Environment
Apr 17, 2020
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Friday is final curtain for analog TV signals
(AP) -- The last major TV stations that are still broadcasting in analog will turn those signals off Friday and go all digital. And this time, they really mean it.
Telecom
Jun 10, 2009
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NASA sees Tropical Storm Bopha intensifying in Micronesia
Tropical storm warnings are in effect in Micronesia as NASA and other satellite imagery indicates that Tropical Storm Bopha continues to intensify.
Earth Sciences
Nov 27, 2012
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NASA launches advanced weather satellite for western US
NASA launched another of the world's most advanced weather satellites on Thursday, this time to safeguard the western U.S.
Space Exploration
Mar 2, 2018
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Launch of EU's Galileo system set for Friday
The launch of the first two satellites for the European Union's Galileo navigation system was postponed until Friday - adding at least one more day to years of waiting for a program promoted as the main rival to GPS to get ...
Space Exploration
Oct 20, 2011
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Record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season draws to an end
The extremely active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is drawing to a close with a record-breaking 30 named storms and 12 landfalling storms in the continental United States. While the official hurricane season concludes on ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 25, 2020
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NASA sees storms affecting the western US
Extreme rain events have been affecting California and snow has blanketed the Pacific Northwest. NASA/NOAA's GOES Project created a satellite animation showing the storms affecting the region from January 6 through 9, 2017, ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 9, 2017
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Path set for commercial communications around the moon
ESA confirmed a contract signature yesterday with Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) to be the main customer for their Lunar Pathfinder satellite launching in 2024 that will provide communications services around the ...
Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2021
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NASA satellites provide a thermal view Hurricane Nate after landfall
NASA's Aqua satellite and NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite analyzed the temperatures in Hurricane Nate's cloud tops and determined that the most powerful thunderstorms and heaviest rain areas were around the center of the ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 10, 2017
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