Eurockot Launch Services GmbH, a joint venture between Astrium and the Khrunichev Space Centre, adds two European Space Agency launch contracts to its order book.
Record Snowstorm Clobbers Colorado
A record-breaking snowstorm struck Colorado in early February 2012, closing an interstate highway, grounding flights and dropping more than a foot of snow on the Denver area.
Drone Spots Texas River of Blood
A drone enthusiast testing out his airborne camera discovered a river of blood behind a Texas meat-packing plant, prompting outrage and investigations by local authorities.
Massive Day of Deadly Tornadoes
Only days into the month, this already is the deadliest March for tornadoes in the United States since 1994, when 40 people were killed, according to the National Climatic Data Center.
A New Arctic Concern: Old Ice Melting Faster Than Young Ice
A new NASA study confirms the oldest, thickest Arctic sea ice is disappearing at a faster rate than younger, thinner ice at the edges of the ice cap, making it more vulnerable to further decline.
LiDAR Map Shows Alpine Trees Getting Shorter
A new map of Earth’s forest height shows that trees in the alpine regions are giving up on reaching for the stars, while trees in tropical and boreal forests are getting taller.
South Africa Spot 5 Mosaic Available
The South African National Space Agency announced a new edition of a satellite image mosaic of the entire country, comprising 952 images from the Spot 5 Earth observation satellite.
Ball Aerospace Delivers New Imager to NASA
The GMI instrument has arrived at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center for integration into NASA’s GPM Earth science satellite.
Swiss Janitor Satellite to Target Orbital Debris
Swiss scientists plan to launch a janitor satellite designed to latch onto chunks of orbiting debris and throw them back into Earth’s atmosphere, where they'll burn up upon re-entry.
Clouds Are Heading Lower
Earth's clouds got a little lower”about 1 percent on average”during the first decade of this century, according to a new NASA-funded university study using Earth observation data.
