by dankeelan | Dec 3, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Satellites, Space
China has launched the world’s first “self-driving” satellites that can maintain or change their flight course without any help from the ground, according to their developer. The two mapping satellites – Siwei Gaojing-2 03 and Gaojing-2 04 – blasted off on a Long...
by dankeelan | Nov 14, 2024 | Featured, Satellites, Space
SpaceX launched 24 of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida early this morning (Nov. 14) in the second half of a spaceflight doubleheader. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the 24 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Florida’s Cape...
by dankeelan | Oct 31, 2024 | Satellites, Space
Debris from an exploded telecommunications satellite is spreading across geosynchronous orbit, threatening other spacecraft in this precious region of space, an animation by a leading space situational awareness firm suggests. The animation by Pennsylvania-based...
by dankeelan | Oct 24, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence, Carbon, Satellites
New technologies are providing unprecedented capabilities for combating deforestation around the globe, particularly in tropical forests. Why it matters: The technologies, which are made possible by advances in Earth observing satellites and...
by dankeelan | Oct 17, 2024 | Mobility, Satellites, Space
The satellite industry has been transformed in recent years from one with a few, mostly government-controlled, high-orbit vehicles into one with a proliferation of smaller, low-orbit constellations of multiple satellites dominated by commercial enterprises. All that...
by dankeelan | Oct 10, 2024 | Climate, Featured, Satellites, Space
Since 1972, the U.S Geological Survey Landsat Earth Observation satellites have been providing scientists and policy makers with up to date data on a range of features of Earth’s surface, and the picture being painted is a grim one. Earth’s...
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