Who Moved This Satellite? SkyNet-1A Is Halfway Around the World From Where It Should Be
A satellite that’s been dead for 50 years ended up thousands of miles away from where it should be. Instead of spending the ...
NISAR: The Powerful New Satellite That Will Track Earth’s Secret Shifts
NASA and ISRO's NISAR satellite aims to revolutionize our understanding of Earth's surface movements with frequent global ...
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Google uses millions of phones to map Earth’s ionosphere and improve GPS
When the air is partly ionized, freely moving electrons slightly slow down the radio signals travelling to Earth from GPS and ...
Schoolchildren check satellite images for island in Russia — then find it’s missing
Mesyatsev Island was formed from Mesyatsev Cape around 1995 as water from a nearby glacier flowed toward the Arctic Ocean, ...
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First satellite made of wood launched into space
Unique among the myriad of items the mission carried is the first satellite made from wood, a palm-sized cube called the ...
How Satellites Are Mapping the Ocean Floor Without Getting Wet
Landsat satellites have gone beyond observing Earth’s land by enabling new methods to measure ocean depth in shallow coastal ...
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World's first wooden satellite launched into space
The world's first wooden satellite has blasted off on a SpaceX rocket, its Japanese developers said Tuesday, part of a resupply mission to the International Space Station. Scientists at Kyoto ...
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World's first wood-panelled satellite launched into space
The world's first wood-panelled satellite has been launched into space to test the suitability of timber as a renewable building material in future exploration of destinations like the Moon and Mars.