Tag: Satellite
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Hurricane Patricia looks scary from space: Satellites track storm as it menaces Mexico
An infrared image from the Suomi NPP satellite’s VIIRS instrument shows the well-defined eye of Hurricane Patricia as of 9:20 GMT Friday. (Credit: NASA / NOAA / CIMSS) Even the International Space Station’s commander is worried about Hurricane Patricia, the strongest storm ever tracked by the National Hurricane Center. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who is…
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See Earth every day from a million miles away, thanks to NASA’s EPIC website
Typhoons roll across the Pacific in an image captured Oct. 17 by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, or DSCOVR. (Credit: NASA) Today NASA paid off on its promise to launch a website featuring daily images from the Deep Space Climate Observatory – and it’s spectacular. The refrigerator-sized spacecraft – which has been known as DSCOVR, Triana and…
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Reserve a launch for your satellite online? Rocket Lab can make it so
Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck aims to have the company’s Electron rocket blasting off from a New Zealand launch site within a year. (Credit: Rocket Lab) The CubeSat revolution has come to this: Now you can make an online reservation for a nanosatellite launch almost as easily as booking a flight from Seattle to Los Angeles. L.A.-based Rocket…
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Spaceflight Industries inks partnerships to improve its ‘cellphone network for space’
Spaceflight Industries announced a partnership today with Spire Global to expand its network of ground stations for its Spaceflight Networks “cellphone network for space.” The company also announced partnerships with Tethers Unlimited, BitBeam and Syrlinks to produce spacecraft radios. Spaceflight Networks’ expected ground station coverage map for 2017 Under the partnership with Spire, Spaceflight Networks will expand its ground…