Tuesday, July 27th, 2021
As the 2020 Olympic Games opened in late July 2021, Tokyo was in the midst of a humid heat wave that pushed temperatures above 34°C (93°F) several days in a row. For meteorologists and climatologists, the arrival...
Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
On June 22, 2021, the CubeSat MIR-SAT1, developed by the team of Mauritius Research and Innovation Council (MRIC), was successfully deployed from the Japanese Experiment Module “Kibo” of the International Space Station (ISS). This deployment was supported...
Tuesday, June 29th, 2021
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear from satellite observations and human experience that the world’s air grew cleaner. But new research shows that not all pollutants were taken out of circulation during societal lockdowns. In...
Thursday, June 10th, 2021
Singapore’s national water agency PUB is deploying autonomous drones at six of the country’s reservoirs to monitor water quality and other activities following trials in 2020. The Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drones, which can be...
Friday, May 14th, 2021
With global temperatures rising and ice sheets melting, plenty of coastal cities face a growing risk of flooding due to sea level rise. Few places, however, face challenges like those in front of the Jakarta metropolitan area,...
Tuesday, May 4th, 2021
China launched a new remote-sensing satellite, Yaogan-34, into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on April 30, 2021. The Yaogan-34 satellite was carried by a Long March-4C rocket and successfully entered its planned...
Tuesday, April 20th, 2021
Surigae is not expected to make landfall, but the typhoon churning in the Western Pacific Ocean is already a significant storm. When the storm rapidly intensified to category 5 strength on April 17, 2021, it marked the...
Monday, April 5th, 2021
Adelaide-based satellite manufacturer Fleet Space Technologies successfully launched its fifth commercial nanosatellite and is looking to expand production in Australia. Named Centauri 3, the 10-kilogram nanosatellite was launched from New Zealand’s Launch Complex 1 at Mahia Peninsula...
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
Dubai Municipality announced the successful launch and deployment of DMSat-1, an atmospheric monitoring microsatellite built by Space Flight Laboratory (SFL). DMSat-1 launched on March 22, 2021, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz rocket. SFL...
Tuesday, March 9th, 2021
Although it covers just 1 percent of Earth’s land surfaces, Indonesia’s rainforest is believed to shelter 10 percent of the world’s known plant species, 12 percent of mammal species and 17 percent of bird species. Spread across...
