Small satellite technology has ignited a revolution in Earth observation, enabling the launches of hundreds of imaging platforms into orbit in just the past few years.
Ocean-Monitoring Satellite Mission Ends After 11 Successful Years
The Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM), the third in a U.S.-European series of satellite missions designed to measure sea surface height, successfully ended its science mission on Oct. 1, 2019.
Operation IceBridge Witnesses Edge of the Ice
For a brief period in late summer, Greenland takes on an appearance like no other time of year.
NASA Estimates Imelda's Extreme Rainfall
NASA estimated extreme rainfall over eastern Texas from the remnants of Tropical Depression Imelda using a NASA satellite rainfall product that incorporates data from satellites and observations.
Earth Observation Remains a Satellite Industry Growth Driver
The demand for more data and insights will be driven by upcoming constellations, high-volume data pipelines, and subscriptions for insight services.
NSR Report Finds Large(r) Satellites Still a Long-Term Growth Market
Between end-of-life replacement demand from most government and military applications, such as situational awareness, and new demand from science and communications applications, the market for satellite launch and manufacturing is expected to grow robustly over the next decade.
NASA's IMERG Estimates Hurricane Dorian's Rain
Storm-total rain accumulation over parts of Grand Bahama and Abaco Islands exceeded 24 inches, according to NASA satellite-based estimates.
Raft of Rubble
Captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission on Aug. 21, 2019, this image features a huge raft of pumice rock drifting in the Pacific Ocean.
GRACE-FO Shows Weight of Midwestern Floods
New data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission, which launched in May 2018, showed there was an increase in water storage in the river basin, extending east around the Great Lakes.
Plant Stress in Costa Rican Drought
NASA's ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) imaged the stress on Costa Rican vegetation caused by a massive regional drought that led the Central American nation’s government to declare a state of emergency on July 23, 2019.