Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
Carrying an advanced radar system that will produce a dynamic, 3D view of Earth in unprecedented detail, the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, India, on July...
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation have set the launch readiness date for the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission for no earlier than July 30, 2025. The Earth-observing satellite, which will be the first to...
Tuesday, July 8th, 2025
The Ocean Exploration Trust (OET)’s exploration vessel (E/V) Nautilus is underway on its third expedition of 2025 to conduct archaeological surveys of historically significant shipwrecks in the Iron Bottom Sound: the site of five famous naval battles, which were a turning point...
Monday, June 23rd, 2025
The $1.5 billion Earth-observing satellite, weighing nearly three tonnes, will monitor the planet's surface with unmatched precision, using advanced radar to scan land, ice, and water every 12 days. Jointly developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and...
Friday, June 6th, 2025
Japan’s Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space, iQPS, plans to launch eight additional synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites through the end of 2026. Rocket Lab, the U.S. launch provider that sent QPS-SAR-10 into orbit on May 17, 2025, is on...
Tuesday, May 27th, 2025
Although radar images are naturally black and white, this false-color composite of Lake Alakol in eastern Kazakhstan results from the combination of three separate radar images acquired a month apart in 2025. Each image has been given a...
Tuesday, May 13th, 2025
The Centre for Geographic Information Systems (CGIS), the official geospatial agency of the State of Qatar, successfully delivered the country’s first advanced, vectorized, watertight 3D city model of Doha. CGIS collected, in collaboration with Khatib & Alami, aerial data...
Saturday, April 26th, 2025
On March 28, 2025, a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar, sending shockwaves through the region. While the country is still dealing with the devasting aftermath, scientists have used radar images from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar satellites to...
Monday, April 14th, 2025
This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows part of one of the world’s natural wonders: the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea off the east coast of Queensland, Australia. The Great Barrier Reef extends for nearly 2,300 kilometers and covers...
Monday, March 31st, 2025
An earthquake of magnitude 7.7 struck Myanmar on March 28, 2025, followed by a strong aftershock of magnitude 6.4. The epicenter of the quake was located near Mandalay, Myanmar's second-largest city, which experienced severe damage. The earthquake...
