(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded a sole source contract for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) spacecraft to Ball Aerospace & ...

The non-profit organization Carbon Mapper is leveling up the game in the battle against climate change, using cutting-edge ...

The Joint Polar Satellite System spacecraft — set for a 2014 launch — is essentially a clone of a satellite Ball Aerospace is testing and preparing for a launch next year, NASA officials said.

A pair of good pictures were taken by waiting until the satellite was passing over Guatemala during sunrise or sunset. A hung I2C bus led to battery drain, and the team tried a system reset to ...

In 2014, the Russians launched their Meteor N M-2 weather satellite into a polar orbit. The part that were most interested in is the fact that it transmits images at 137.1 MHz using the standard ...

The Shijian-19 satellite carried seeds to orbit, exposing them to the microgravity environment to test plant mutation in ...

Northrop Grumman's experience in satellite systems and payloads has helped build sophisticated weather monitoring ...

On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the satellite that started the Space Race. Sputnik 1 was the first ...

If warmer ocean temperatures persist, we could be looking at more active hurricane seasons—and more disasters—in the years ...

This week, SpaceX launched its 7,000th Starlink satellite, solidifying its position ... Elon Musk’s SpaceX to provide launch ...

The Arktika-M No.1 satellite, aboard a Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat rocket, lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 12:55 local time (06:55 UTC) on Sunday bound for an elliptical Molniya orbit.

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