SkySats 14 and 15 were launched on Dec. 3, 2018, from Vandenberg Air Force Base on Spaceflight's first Sun Synchronous dedicated rideshare mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9.
Small Satellites Market to Hit $37 Billion
NSR's Small Satellite Markets, 5thEdition forecasts the market to yield $37 billion in cumulative revenues from smallsat manufacturing and launch services by 2027, with 6,500 smallsats set to launch during this time.
The Horn of Africa, Somalia
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) shot this photograph of the Horn of Africa, the easternmost portion of the continent.
Integral X-Rays Earth's Aurora
Integral was initially preparing for astronomical research when it spied this aurora; the probe was planning to observe the skies at X-ray wavelengths to measure something known as the cosmic X-ray background, a diffuse level of radiation that pervades the cosmos and is linked to high-energy events such as black holes devouring nearby material in far-away galaxies.
Flooding Along the Nueces River
On Nov. 1, 2018, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured a false-color view of flooding along the Nueces River in a series of storms that have delivered historic amounts of rain to central Texas.
Remote Sensing Performs Damage Assessment following Hurricane Michael
SimActive Inc. partnered with Midwest Aerial to perform damage assessment of Hurricane Michael.
Two Earth-Observation Satellites Delivered to Vandenberg Launch Base
SSL, a Maxar Technologies company, shipped two Earth-observation satellites to Vandenberg Air Force Base where they will be launched on Spaceflight's first sun-synchronous dedicated rideshare mission on Nov. 19, 2018, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
NASA Eyes Powerful Hurricane Willa Affecting Western Mexico
NASA's Aqua and Suomi satellites provided views of Hurricane Willa as it continued moving toward landfall in western Mexico.
African Smoke-Cloud Connection Target of NASA Airborne Flights
Over the southeast Atlantic Ocean, a 2,000-mile-long plume of smoke from African agricultural fires meets a near-permanent cloud bank offshore.
NASA Airborne Team Surveys Flooding from Hurricane Florence
In the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, which struck the Carolinas on Sept. 14, 2018, NASA quickly deployed a sophisticated airborne radar to give disaster response agencies a much-needed view of floodwaters that continued to threaten the region.