Scientists have used MODIS satellite imagery to understand long-term ocean movements from sea ice dynamics. The engineers used image-processing algorithms to remove clouds, sharpen details, and separate individual floes. Image analysis algorithms...
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For the second night in a row, the skies over Hawaii have been lit up by a string of mysterious objects shimmering in the dark, many residents reported. Although a local outlet contacted the Federal Aviation Administration, there has been no...
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Just be thankful there are students like Paige Northway and Nathan Wacker, two University of Washington students who think it's neat to work on stuff like a satellite the size of a shoebox.
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The state of New South Wales (NSW) in south eastern Australia is continuing to experience devastating bushfires due to the dry tinder-like atmosphere in the territory: high winds, dry lightning and continuing heat. Approximately 69 fires are still...
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A Falcon 9 rocket launched into space on Monday morning. [credit:
Trevor Mahlmann ]
At the start of the week, SpaceX launched its first 60...
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The world of aerospace increasingly relies on carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites to build the structures of satellites, rockets and jet aircraft. But the life of those materials is limited by how they handle heat. A team of FAMU-FSU College...
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The Falcon 9 rocket taking off for the Starlink mission on November 11. (Credit: SpaceX/Flickr)
On November 11, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying another 60 Starlink satellites, which will eventually provide internet service worldwide....
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Do you wonder how astronomers find all those exoplanets orbiting stars in distant solar systems? Mostly they use the transit method. When a planet travels in between its star and an observer, the light from the star dims. That’s called a...
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The world of aerospace increasingly relies on carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites to build the structures of satellites, rockets and jet aircraft. But the life of those materials is limited by how they handle heat. A team of FAMU-FSU College...
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The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite provided a look at the rainfall occurring within the newly developed Tropical Storm Fengshen.
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The Tibetan Plateau (TP), known as the "Asian water tower" because of its huge storage capacity in glaciers, has a profound impact on local and downstream ecosystems. However, it is a challenge to establish and maintain in situ observations there...
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Also: Four RS-25 engines prepare for, at best, a watery grave Roundup While astronomers winced and Musk's rocketeers cheered the deployment of another 60 Starlink satellites into Earth orbit, there was plenty of other action in the...
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SpaceX launched 60 of its Starlink satellites into space on Monday.
The satellites were carried into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Starlink is SpaceX's ambitious project to station a network of almost 12,000 satellites above the Earth to...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian satellite grouping has 23 operational satellites, with two in maintenance, one spare and one in a flight test phase. The satellites circle the Earth at an altitude of about 11,000 miles and ensure complete coverage of...
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Every minute counts when it comes to predicting severe weather. Combing data from cutting-edge geostationary satellites and traditional weather radar created a path toward earlier, more accurate warnings, according to researchers who studied...
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SpaceX successfully launched its first batch of production Starlink satellites today, sending 60 of the small satellites to their target orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. These 60 satellites follow 60 launched in May, but whereas those, and two...
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Every minute counts when it comes to predicting severe weather. Combing data from cutting-edge geostationary satellites and traditional weather radar created a path toward earlier, more accurate warnings, according to Penn State researchers who...
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SpaceX will launch a fleet of 60 new Starlink satellites for its growing megaconstellation for broadband internet on Monday, Nov. 11. Here's how to watch live.
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NASA's planet-hunting satellite, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, has captured a stunning image of the vast sea of stars in the southern sky.
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Also organizational chaos, secrecy and self-regulation Key details about the failure of Europe’s Galileo satellite system over the summer have started to emerge - and it’s not pretty.…
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