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Satellite Fire Alarms Keep Watch On Raging California Fires
September 8, 1999 — As wildfires ravage the dry California landscape, scientists at the University of Hawai'i have created a new tool to help keep tabs on fires and identify a blaze within minutes of the time it ... > full story -
Future Imaging Satellites To Have Everyday Applications
July 26, 1999 — Researchers are creating software that will make satellite imaging systems so user-friendly that they might soon be accessible to everyone from farmers to real estate ... > full story -
NASA Scientists Use Satellites To Help Track A Disease And Keep It Under Control
July 16, 1999 — Using weather satellites to spot the early signs of an El Nino, scientists may be able to help save East Africans and their livestock from Rift Valley Fever, a mosquito-borne disease that can be ... > full story -
Colorado Students, Faculty To Control NASA El Nino Watching Satellite
June 18, 1999 — Four Colorado institutions including the University of Colorado at Boulder have teamed up on the construction, launch and control of a NASA satellite designed to observe Earth's oceans and act as ... > full story -
Student-Built Satellite Scheduled To Launch Today
May 18, 1999 — The TERRIERS satellite, built by students at Boston University and scheduled for launch on May 18, could provide a much better understanding of how changes in the ionosphere -- the electrically ... > full story -
Cloudsat To Revolutionize Study Of Clouds And Climate
May 4, 1999 — NASA will take a revolutionary, global look at clouds with a new spaceborne radar capable of peering deep into their interior to study their structure, composition and effects on ... > full story -
Satellite Laser To Take The Pulse Of West Antarctic Ice Sheet
February 24, 1999 — By shining a laser from space onto the Antarctic and Greenland, scientists may soon peel away some of the mystery surrounding the fate of the massive ice sheets that, through natural fluctuation or ... > full story -
Hubble Technology Benefits New Satellite Phone System
January 18, 1999 — Computer software developed for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will soon help operate a worldwide, satellite-based phone system called Globalstar. This software is a key feature of NASA Goddard ... > full story -
Colorado State Leads $145 Million Spacecraft Project To Provide 3-D Images Of Clouds, Aerosols And Improve Weather, Climate Forecasting
January 13, 1999 — Colorado State University will team with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and lead a $145 million, five-year NASA project to launch a satellite that can provide the first three-dimensional ... > full story -
Radiation Belts Around Earth Adversely Affecting Satellites
December 9, 1998 — Much of the energetic electron activity in Earth's radiation belts, once thought to be generated by the sun and solar wind, actually is accelerated to light-speed by Earth's own magnetic ... > full story
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