Google Earth has released a new video feature to illustrate the effects of climate change across the globe over the past four decades.
The new feature, Timelapse, uses 24 million satellite photos from the past 37 years to create an interactive 4D...
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and his company are working hard to put more satellites into orbit capable of providing Internet access to people worldwide. So far, SpaceX has hundreds of Starlink satellites in orbit, with more set to launch during the year....
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SR-71,
Despite the pain in getting the Blackbird into the air, once it was, it set world records.
Here's What You Need to Remember: Although the SR-71 was retired in the late 1990s, its speed provided a capability that satellites...
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Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Dan Goldberg.
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Satellite broadband is becoming an increasingly popular way to connect to the internet.
Major space companies are offering super-fast internet, which beams down from satellites in orbit.
They...
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Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Dan Goldberg.
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Satellite broadband is becoming an increasingly popular way to connect to the internet.
Major space companies are offering super-fast internet, which beams down from satellites in orbit.
They...
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Faced with the tragic loss of the Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico and the often prohibitive cost of satellite missions, astronomers are searching for savvy alternatives to continue answering fundamental questions in physics.
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SpaceX’s new Starlink satellite internet service is in a very limited beta testing period right now, but the company is already thinking ahead: as first noted by CNBC,...
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A team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has proposed a satellite-aided drought monitoring method that can adequately represent the complex drought conditions into a single integrated drought index. The newly-proposed drought index has attracted...
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Researchers have developed a method that uses machine learning, satellite imagery and weather data to autonomously find hotspots of heavy air pollution, city block by city block. The technique could be a boon for finding and mitigating sources of...
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“Methane emissions are analogous to a wildfire,” Riley Duren says. “Except these wildfires are invisible.”Duren is the CEO of a nonprofit, Carbon Mapper, that is working with the company Planet to launch two new satellites that will track...
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With its flight deck and command island yet to be installed, it seems increasingly unlikely China’s Type 003 aircraft carrier will be launched this year. However, the supporting technologies, including a new generation of carrier-based aircraft,...
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The map shows a near-present snapshot of effects from deforestation, mining, expanding road networks, urbanization and increasing agriculture.
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Google Earth is adding a mesmerizing timelapse feature, showing the changes of our planet over time in what Google says is its biggest update since 2017. Timelapse in Google Earth pulls together a total of 24 million satellite images of the planet...
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Space is getting crowded. More than 100 million tiny pieces of debris are spinning in Earth orbit, along with tens of thousands of bigger chunks and around 3,300 functioning satellites.
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Images reveal ash covering much of the island.
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It was a warm October evening, back in 1957, when we heard the news and began looking anew toward the night skies. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) had just launched a satellite that they called Sputnik into orbit; an event that...
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There has been significant interest and anticipation regarding Space X’s Starlink internet service in Canada over the past few months.
For some, the hope is that Elon Musk’s satellite internet service will finally bring connectivity to...
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Space startup Astranis has raised a $250 million Series C round to provide it with a capital injection to help scale manufacturing of its unique MicroGEO satellites — geostationary communications satellites that are much smaller than the typical...
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It’s notoriously difficult to predict volcanic corruptions. There are often signs that a volcano is likely to erupt in the future, including an increase in seismic activity, changes in gas emissions, and sudden ground deformation but...
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A satellite view of the Ever Given in the Suez Canal's Great Bitter Lake as of Monday, April 12 2021.
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The Ever Given has passed a technical inspection allowing it to proceed up the Suez Canal.
However, it still can't move from its...
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