On July 11, 2012, more than 25,000 hectares (97 square miles) of forests were burning in Russia, according to the Russian Federal Forestry Agency. Most of the fires”uncontrolled wildfires in boreal forests”were in central and eastern Siberia, as shown in this image acquired on July 10 by NASA's Aqua satellite.
A new report by specialty insurer Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty says the recently decommissioned Envisat satellite now represents a major orbital debris threat.
An Earth observation satellite conceived by Al Gore, but banished to a warehouse by foes of climate change after Gore lost his 2000 presidential bid, now could be launched as early as 2014.
Sir Richard Branson confirmed his interest in adapting the technology his company is developing to take people into space for the purpose of sending aloft smaller Earth observation spacecraft.
Pedro “Pete” Rustan, former senior U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) manager and a fixture in space technology circles, lost a two-and-a-half-year battle with cancer on June 28, 2012.
Images from NASA's Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite show the power outages in the clear skies over Washington, D.C., and Baltimore that occurred on June 29, 2012. The outages were the result of a derecho, a rare, fast-moving thunderstorm system that packs the power of a tornado.
U.K.-based Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. plans to launch exactView-1, the highest detection performance Automatic Identification System satellite ever built, on July 22, 2012.
Thousands of affected Colorado residents are holding their collective breath as the summer's first thunderstorms move in, creating the threat of dangerous flash floods in massive burn areas.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency successfully tested cameras with 1.4- and 0.96-gigapixel resolution, aiming for resolution up to 10 and 50 gigapixels”better than the human eye.
The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International recently published a set of guidelines to provide members with recommendations for their safe and nonintrusive operation.
