Satellite News

Posted April 22, 2013:

• NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites

Posted April 16, 2013:

• For the Very First Time, Two Spacecraft Will Fly in Formation With Millimeter Precision

Posted April 5, 2013:

• New Live Bi-Ocular Animations of Two Oceans Now Available

Posted March 21, 2013:

• First Images Released from Newest Earth Observation Satellite

Posted February 28, 2013:

• Space Race Underway to Create Quantum Satellite
• NOAA and NASA's Next Generation Weather Satellite May Provide Earlier Warnings

Posted February 12, 2013:

• Landsat 5 Sets Guinness World Record for 'Longest Operating Earth Observation Satellite'

Posted January 30, 2013:

• NASA Launches Next-Generation Communications Satellite
• Satellite Image Shows Eastern U.S. Severe Weather System

Posted January 29, 2013:

• Satellite Visualization Tool for High-Resolution Observation Review (Thor) Accessible from Any Location With Internet Access

Posted January 27, 2013:

• NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System Offers Upgrade to Vital Communications Net

Posted January 17, 2013:

• NASA Beams Mona Lisa to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the Moon

Posted January 10, 2013:

• NASA's Robotic Refueling Demo Set to Jumpstart Expanded Capabilities in Space

Posted December 11, 2012:

• CubeSats in Orbit After Historic Space Station Deployment

Posted December 5, 2012:

• NASA-NOAA Satellite Reveals New Views of Earth at Night
• Weather and Ice Data Help Secure Winter Shipping in the Arctic

Posted December 4, 2012:

• Planet Rings Could Be Behind the Formation of Solar System Satellites

Posted November 16, 2012:

• GOCE’s Second Mission Improving Gravity Map

Posted November 9, 2012:

• Tracking Post-Sandy Sewage

Posted October 24, 2012:

• 2012 Antarctic Ozone Hole Second Smallest in 20 Years

Posted October 19, 2012:

• NASA's Kennedy Space Center Supporting Effort to Develop Satellite Servicing Capabilities

Posted October 17, 2012:

• Giant Impact Scenario May Explain the Unusual Moons of Saturn

Posted October 11, 2012:

• Focus on Space Debris: Envisat

Posted October 10, 2012:

• Suomi NPP Satellite Sees Auroras Over North America
• NOAA Satellites -- Helping Save Lives for 30 Years; October 1982 Marks First U.S. Life Saved by Satellite Assist

Posted October 8, 2012:

• NASA to Upgrade Vital Communications Link

Posted October 2, 2012:

• SMOS Has a Better Look at Salinity
• Twin Galileo Satellites Fuelled and Ready for Launch

Posted October 1, 2012:

• Space Travel With a New Language in Tow

Posted September 29, 2012:

• Sun Unleashes a Wide, but Benign, Coronal Mass Ejection

Posted September 17, 2012:

• Europe's Second Polar-Orbiting Weather Satellite Is Aloft
• MetOp-B Launches With NASA Goddard-Developed Instruments

Posted September 12, 2012:

• Summer Rain More Likely Over Drier Soils, New Satellite Data Show

Posted September 10, 2012:

• Starlight and 'Air Glow' Give Scientists a New Way to Observe Nighttime Weather from Space

Posted September 5, 2012:

• Quantum Teleportation Goes the Distance: Record-Breaking Distance of 143 Kilometers Through Free Space

Posted September 3, 2012:

• Peek-a-Blue Moon

Posted August 29, 2012:

• Cooler Waters Help Diminish Isaac's Punch

Posted August 17, 2012:

• New 'Microthrusters' Could Propel Small Satellites: As Small as a Penny, These Thrusters Run on Jets of Ion Beams

Posted July 24, 2012:

• Unusual Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt

Posted July 10, 2012:

• Researchers Develop Technique to Help Pollution Forecasters See Past Clouds

Posted July 9, 2012:

• Nitrogen Dioxide Air Pollution Lessens in Parts of US and Europe, Increases in Middle East and Parts of Asia

Posted July 3, 2012:

• One Step Closer to Robotic Refueling Demonstrations on Space Station

Posted June 28, 2012:

• Milky Way Struck 100 Million Years Ago, Still Rings Like a Bell

Posted June 26, 2012:

• NOAA: Data from New Satellite Implemented in Record Time; Meteorologists Are Now Using Information for Weather Forecasts

Posted June 23, 2012:

• Rio+20 Summit: Earth Observation for Us and Our Planet

Posted June 19, 2012:

• Compact Blue Dwarf Can’t Hide from Hubble

Posted June 18, 2012:

• Landsat Sets the Standard for Maps of World's Forests

Posted June 13, 2012:

• GPS Technology Improves Weather Forecasting

Posted May 22, 2012:

• Volcanic Island of Santorini Displaying Signs of Unrest

Posted May 9, 2012:

• ESA Declares End of Mission for Envisat

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