A solar flare in 2015. (Photo: Photo: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA)

A day without satellites would affect us all

October 7, 2019

You wake up and turn on the TV. Your usual shows aren’t airing. You flip on the radio […]

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L3Harris delivers eighth GPS III navigation payload

August 21, 2019

As the U.S. Air Force prepares to launch its second next-generation GPS III satellite, L3Harris Technologies delivered its […]

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A satellite view of the Amazon wildfire on Aug. 13. (NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview, and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership.)

Amazon fires in Brazil can be seen from space

August 21, 2019

Wildfires in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil have hit record numbers, and satellites have been able to capture […]

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Image: European Space Agency

Europe chooses Airbus for SMILE space weather satellite

August 9, 2019

The European Space Agency has chosen Airbus to build the European component of the SMILE (Solar wind Magnetosphere […]

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How Planet uses satellite imagery for the oil and gas industry, road detection applications

July 22, 2019

Planet’s Deven Desai explains how Planet uses satellite imagery to uncover data for the oil and gas industry, […]

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NASA releases satellite damage map of Camp Fire

November 26, 2018

The Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena has produced a […]

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GPS III SV01 on Aug. 20 boards a U.S. Air Force C-17 for its flight to Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Photo: Lockheed Martin)

Lockheed gets U.S. Air Force contract for 22 more GPS IIIs

September 17, 2018

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $7.2 billion contract to build 22 more GPS III […]

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Satellite imagery details historic floods in India

August 23, 2018

DigitalGlobe has released pre- and post-event satellite imagery of the areas in India affected by heavy flooding. According […]

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