One of the most crucial elements of a forecast is sky conditions. Whether it's sunny, partly cloudy, or storming. Typically, we use radar to detect rain, but when it is not raining, how do we observe ...

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. – One of the payloads aboard the Transporter-11 Mission, the latest Falcon 9 launch on Aug. 16, was Umbra's pair of new Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites. The ...

The satellite population in low Earth orbit (LEO) is not an open book. While data on many satellites is public, others are shrouded in secrecy, and information is incomplete for others. New research ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Meteorologists have different types of tools that available to help us to forecast the weather. But one of the most important devices in our arsenal are satellites. Satellites help ...

Light streaks caused by passing satellites mar images taken by the world's most expensive telescopes. The problem is set to get worse. A new type of super-black, highly resistant satellite paint ...

he film features a presentation by John Fitch from NASA discussing the Nimbus weather satellite, its capabilities, and its advancements over previous satellites like Tyros. It categorizes various ...

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An upper stage Block DM has completed the orbital insertion of three navigation satellites belonging to the Russian GLOobal NAvigation Satellite System (GLONASS) into their target low-Earth orbit. The ...

Axient Corp., an aerospace contractor based in Huntsville, Alabama, stood up a CubeSat business unit in Albuquerque in 2022. As existing spacecraft companies shift to building other types of ...