On Feb. 16, 2016, the European Space Agency's much-anticipated Sentinel-3A satellite was successfully launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia.
USGIF Accepting Applications for Awards, Scholarships
The U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) is accepting nominations for its 2016 Awards and Scholarship programs.
Space Station Deploys Student-Built Satellites
On Feb. 2, 2016, a robotic arm aboard the International Space Station deployed a pair of satellites built by students at Texas A&M University and the University of Texas.
Antarctica Losing Ice ˜Safety Band'
According to a report recently published in Nature Climate Change, satellite data is helping to reveal that there's a critical point where Antarctica's huge ice shelves act as a safety band, holding back the ice that flows to the sea.
Crowdsourced Project to Monitor California Coast
DroneDeploy and The Nature Conservancy partnered to create California's Phones and Drones project, which allows citizens to help create a crowdsourced map of the California coast.
NASA Scientists Develop ˜Damage Maps' from Satellite Images
Researchers led by Sang-Ho Yun at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory developed a way to create damage maps from satellite imagery”even if images are taken at night or when skies are cloudy.
NOAA, NASA Satellites Track Eastern Blizzard
Satellites tracked and helped warn of a major winter storm that hit the eastern United States on Jan. 22-24, 2016, with two low-pressure systems merging to drop heavy snow from Virginia to New England.
Peru Program Puts Trackers on Vultures to Monitor Waste
To raise awareness of Peru's growing waste problem, a multi-agency collaboration is attaching sensors and cameras to vultures, recording their waste-tracking habits.
NASA Introduces CORAL Campaign
A new three-year NASA field expedition will use advanced instruments on airplanes and in the water to survey more of the world's coral reefs in greater detail. The COral Reef Airborne Laboratory (CORAL) will measure the condition of these threatened ecosystems and create a unique database of uniform scale and quality.
Jason-3 Successfully Launched
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched the Jason-3 satellite on Jan. 17, 2016, from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
