Tag: weather
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From Extreme Weather to Actionable Intelligence: How Satellite Data Is Powering Climate Risk Applications
Extreme weather events are increasingly recognized as material drivers of operational and financial risk across multiple industries. Rather than isolated disruptions, hazards such as floods, heatwaves, droughts, and infrastructure stress events can interact with cascading or compound effects in certain regions and contexts. Extreme Weather as an Emerging Systemic Risk Climate-related hazards are increasingly studied…
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Proton-M launches Elektro-L No.5 on its final mission with Blok-DM upper stage
Russia’s Proton rocket made its first flight in almost three years on Thursday, carrying the Elektro-L No.5 weather satellite into orbit. The launch, expected to be the last time Proton flies with a Blok-DM upper stage, took place at 08:52 UTC from Site 81/24 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Proton, once a workhorse of…
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Spire Global Signs Weather Intelligence Deal With AiDash For Grid Risk Management
Spire Global has secured a new contract in the energy and utilities sector, supplying advanced weather intelligence to AiDash to support grid resilience and risk management, the companies said on Jan. 22. Under the agreement, Spire Global will provide high-resolution weather forecasts derived from its fully deployed satellite constellation to AiDash. The data has been…
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SpaceX Launches 29 Starlink Satellites From Florida Despite Marginal Weather
SpaceX successfully launched 29 Starlink satellites from Florida on Sunday, overcoming weather concerns linked to a cold front moving across the peninsula. Forecasters with the 45th Weather Squadron, based at Cape Canaveral, had estimated a 60% chance of acceptable launch conditions at the opening of the window. The main risks included potential violations of launch…
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Blue Origin Delays New Glenn Rocket Launch Due to Weather
Blue Origin postponed the planned launch of its New Glenn rocket on Sunday after unfavorable weather conditions prevented liftoff within the scheduled window. The heavy-lift rocket was set to launch from Cape Canaveral at 2:45 p.m. Eastern time, but repeated delays extended the countdown beyond the 4:13 p.m. deadline, leading to a scrub. The company…
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U.S. Launches Three Spacecraft Aboard Falcon 9 to Boost Space Weather Monitoring
The United States launched three spacecraft on Wednesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to improve monitoring of solar activity and its effects on technology, astronauts, and infrastructure on Earth. The launch from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center sent the probes on a journey toward the Lagrange 1 point, around 1.5 million kilometers from the sun,…
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Webb, Keck observe Titan; find clouds and carbon molecule in northern hemisphere
By combining data from the Keck II telescope and the joint NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope, a group of scientists observed cloud convection in the northern hemisphere of Saturn’s moon Titan — the first time such atmospheric activity has been observed in the region. A majority of Titan’s methane lakes and…
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Eumetsat Shifts Weather Satellite Launch to Falcon 9, Surprising European Space Sector
Eumetsat, the European weather satellite operator, has unexpectedly decided to launch its upcoming Meteosat Third Generation-Sounder 1 (MTG-S1) satellite on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket instead of Europe’s Ariane 6, a move that has stirred frustration among European space officials. Announced late on June 28, Eumetsat attributed the decision to “exceptional circumstances” but did not elaborate…
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MyRadar Partners with Exolaunch for Weather Satellite Deployment
MyRadar, a weather data company, has forged a launch agreement with Exolaunch, a German CubeSat deployment firm, to deploy weather satellites. These pathfinder satellites, named “HORIS-1” and “HORIS-2,” are set to launch as part of two upcoming SpaceX Transporter rideshare missions. Exolaunch has gained prominence in rideshare missions, particularly on SpaceX’s Transporter missions, deploying over…
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Falcon 9 launches PACE science satellite for NASA
After a record-setting month featuring 10 launches, SpaceX is gearing up for a busy February. One of the launches this month is the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) ocean science satellite, which flew aboard a Falcon 9 in a rare polar corridor launch from Florida. PACE launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at the…