Satellite News

Posted May 25, 2011:

• NASA's NPP Satellite Successfully Completes Thermal Vac Testing

Posted April 27, 2011:

• NASA Mission Seeks to Uncover a Rainfall Mystery

Posted April 6, 2011:

• Surveillance System to Cut Risk of Space Debris Hitting Satellites

Posted March 28, 2011:

• First Applications of Europe's Galileo Satellite Nagivation System Showcased

Posted March 24, 2011:

• First Student-Developed Mission in Which Satellites Orbit and Communicate

Posted March 8, 2011:

• Rare Observation of Cosmic Explosion

Posted February 22, 2011:

• Satellite to Examine How Sun's Brightness Impacts Climate Change

Posted February 1, 2011:

• NASA Satellites Capture Data on Monster Winter Storm Affecting 30 U.S. States
• Cluster Encounters 'Natural Particle Accelerator' Above Earth's Atmosphere: How Northern and Southern Lights Are Generated

Posted December 30, 2010:

• GOES Satellites Watch 2011 Approach, Look Back at 2010

Posted December 13, 2010:

• Satellite Data Provide a New Way to Monitor Groundwater in Agricultural Regions
• How Saturn's Moon Iapetus Got Its Ridge

Posted December 12, 2010:

• Demise of Large Satellite May Have Led to the Formation of Saturn’s Rings and Inner Moons

Posted December 6, 2010:

• Nanosatellite Successfully Ejected from Free-Flying Microsatellite in Space

Posted December 3, 2010:

• Snow from Space: Satellite Imagery of Snow-Bound UK

Posted November 28, 2010:

• Earth's Lakes Are Warming, NASA Study Finds

Posted November 22, 2010:

• Students Fly in Zero Gravity to Protect Satellites from Tiny Meteoroids

Posted November 12, 2010:

• Satellites Provide Up-to-Date Information on Snow Cover

Posted October 27, 2010:

• Introducing the 'A-Train': Satellites Help Scientists Understand Earth's Changing Climate

Posted October 20, 2010:

• Space Weather Mystery Solved: Link Found Between Electrons Trapped in Space and Upper Atmosphere's Diffuse Aurora

Posted October 15, 2010:

• Satellite-Control Software Helps the Oil and Gas Industry

Posted October 13, 2010:

• New System for Locating and Capturing Satellites in Space

Posted September 14, 2010:

• NASA's Aqua Satellite Takes Snapshot of Arctic Ocean Sea Ice

Posted September 7, 2010:

• GOCE Gravity Mission Back in Action

Posted September 1, 2010:

• NASA and NOAA's Newest GOES Satellite Ready for Action
• New Solar Prediction System Gives Time to Prepare for the Storms Ahead
• Navigation Satellites Contend With Stormy Sun

Posted August 31, 2010:

• Students Help NASA Decommission Satellite

Posted August 27, 2010:

• Metop-A Completes 20,000th Orbit
• Ten Years Flying in Formation: The Legendary Cluster Quartet

Posted August 16, 2010:

• Measuring Salt Shine to Improve Climate Understanding

Posted August 13, 2010:

• Fires Around Moscow: Satellite Perspective Reveals Startling Images of Massive Smoke Clouds

Posted August 5, 2010:

• First Satellite Measurement of Water Volume in Amazon Floodplain

Posted July 26, 2010:

• Engineers Prove Space Pioneer's 25-Year-Old Theory

Posted July 22, 2010:

• Final Instruments on NASA Climate/weather Satellite Integrated

Posted July 13, 2010:

• NASA Releases GOES-13 Satellite Movie of the Life and Times of Hurricane Alex

Posted July 1, 2010:

• CryoSat-2 Exceeding Expectations

Posted June 14, 2010:

• Software System to Predict the Evolution of the Ash Cloud from the Icelandic Volcano

Posted May 28, 2010:

• Experts Gather as Volcanic Dust Settles

Posted May 24, 2010:

• NASA Develops Enhanced Search and Rescue Technologies

Posted May 19, 2010:

• Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill in the Loop Current

Posted April 30, 2010:

• NASA Satellite Imagery Keeping Eye on the Gulf Oil Spill

Posted April 19, 2010:

• Two NASA Satellites Capture Eyjafjallajokull's Ash Plume

Posted April 16, 2010:

• GOES-13 Is America's New GOES-EAST Satellite

Posted April 13, 2010:

• CryoSat-2: ESA's Ice Mission Delivers First Data

Posted April 8, 2010:

• Successful Launch for ESA's CryoSat-2 Ice Satellite

Posted April 1, 2010:

• CryoSat-2 Installed in Launch Silo

Posted March 27, 2010:

• Nanosatellite to Clear Dangerous Debris from Space

Posted March 19, 2010:

• NASA and NOAA's Environmental Satellite Now GOES-15

Posted March 11, 2010:

• Three FASTSAT Instruments Pass Tests

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