Monday, July 8th, 2024
On July 3, 2024, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) advanced the Commercial Removal of Debris Demonstration (CRD2) Phase I project, under which the demonstration satellite Astroscale’s ADRAS-J successfully captured images of space debris, a non-cooperative target,...
Monday, June 24th, 2024
One of the images of the target space debris taken during the "fixed-point observation" (H-IIA upper stage, which launched Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT), also known as Ibuki in 2009). The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) advanced...
Friday, June 7th, 2024
The TRISHNA (Thermal Infra-Red Imaging Satellite for High-resolution Natural Resource Assessment) mission, a collaborative endeavor between ISRO and CNES, is engineered to deliver high spatial and high temporal resolution monitoring of Earth's surface temperature, emissivity, biophysical and radiation variables for surface energy...
Tuesday, May 28th, 2024
The island of Hawai’i and surrounding waters glow in unusual shades in this 2022 model made through NASA DEVELOP. The model was created to help the County of Hawai’i in their shoreline setback plan. The image shows...
Monday, May 13th, 2024
Ural River levels peak in this April 13, 2024, enhanced color image from Landsat 9; vegetation appears red, while water is blue-green. After heavy rain and rapid snowmelt, rivers in southern Russia and northern Kazakhstan swelled, flooding homes...
Monday, April 29th, 2024
A slow-moving storm system pummeled the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and dropped more than a year’s worth of rain on some cities in April 2024. Heavy rain triggered flash flooding across eastern parts of the country, inundating...
Tuesday, April 16th, 2024
On April 15, 2024, China launched a Long March-2D carrier rocket, placing a remote-sensing satellite into space. The rocket blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China and sent the Gaojing-3 01 satellite into...
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
UB students in Singapore mapping food waste across the island nation have earned the top prize in an international geospatial science competition. The team received the distinction award in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) 2024...
Monday, March 18th, 2024
Synspective Inc., a Tokyo-based SAR satellite data and solutions provider, announced that StriX-3, its fourth SAR satellite, was successfully placed into its target orbit and spread its wings. StriX-3 was deployed into a Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) at...
Tuesday, March 5th, 2024
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is pleased to announce that the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) completed its commissioning period as planned and has transitioned to the nominal phase. XRISM is conducting an initial calibration...
