How satellites have become Earth’s new health and nature watchdogs
Satellite-derived Earth observation data helps researchers unlock new insights into monitoring both environmental and human ...
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Low Earth Orbit Satellites
after 2024 and launch its own orbiting station. Many believe that Russia is using the cooperation related... If a hypersonic missile were traveling along the upper boundary of the earth’s ...
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Starlink satellites: Facts, tracking and impact on astronomy
The size and scale of the Starlink project concerns astronomers, who fear that the bright, orbiting ... satellites orbit approximately 342 miles (550 kilometers) above Earth and put on a ...
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How India’s new satellite will see the Earth
When NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) new Earth satellite NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) ...
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Here’s how much better weather prediction has gotten recently
Satellites estimate winds by tracking the motion of clouds (or water vapor features in the absence of clouds) from a sequence of images. Low Earth-orbiting satellites that circle the Earth from ...
Asteroid? Nope, It’s Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster Cruising Through Space
Less than 24 hours after the Minor Planet Center announced a new asteroid, it said the object was actually Musk's electric ...
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Mass Retirement? SpaceX Spotted Deorbiting Dozens of Starlink Satellites
with as many as four or five satellites plunging into the Earth’s atmosphere each day. The data comes from Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer who tracks orbiting satellites, including those for ...