Monday, September 15th, 2025
Part of the Gibson Desert in Western Australia is featured in this image captured by the Φsat-2 mission in June 2025. Covering an area of more than 150,000 square kilometers, the desert consists of gravel terrains covered by desert...
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025
This image acquired by the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission and its Ocean and Land Colour Instrument shows high concentrations of chlorophyll in yellow-green along the coastline of South Australia, near Adelaide. Chlorophyll is a key indicator of the presence of...
Wednesday, August 13th, 2025
Chinese launch startup iSpace launched the nation’s first rocket-recovery ship, marking a major step toward offshore reusable rocket operations. Read more here. Image Credit: iSpace
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...
