Beachwood, Ohio-based Tremco Roofing partnered with Toronto-based Industrial SkyWorks to use drones equipped with infrared and video cameras to find energy leaks for customers in Canada.
Recognize This East Coast Rocket-Launch Site?
Where wild ponies once roamed the marshes and beaches, today Wallops Island is the site of a thriving spaceport that launches several commercial and government rockets each year.
Lake Erie Faces Harmful Late-Summer Algae Bloom
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its research partners predict a significant bloom of cyanobacteria, a toxic blue-green algae, for Lake Erie later this summer.
How Can a Beer Cooler Help Us Better Understand Climate?
While European Space Agency engineers have almost finished building the first Sentinel-3 satellite for ocean forecasting, a beer cooler has an unusual role in supporting the mission.
NASA Launches Long-Awaited Carbon Mission
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 satellite aims to pinpoint atmospheric carbon dioxide, the leading human-produced greenhouse gas responsible for warming our world.
Satellite Sail Could Mitigate Orbital Debris Problem
At the end of its mission, the descent of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.’s TechDemoSat-1 satellite will be assisted by a specialized de-orbit sail just one-thousandth of an inch thick.
Skycatch Aims to Offer Drones for Hire
Skycatch, like Google's recently purchased satellite venture, is seeking ways to make high-resolution, easily accessible aerial imagery a part of how the everyday world works.
‘Citizen Scientists’ Take Control of Abandoned NASA Satellite
With NASA's blessing and following a successful crowd-funding campaign, a group of citizen scientists have taken control of an abandoned NASA satellite with plans to put it back to work.
SPOT 7 Satellite Launched Successfully
Like SPOT 6”its twin”SPOT 7 covers wide areas in record time. Both satellites in orbit boosts acquisition capacity to 6 million square kilometers per day, an area 10 times the size of France.
Spy Satellite Agency Eyes Video Game Technology
The National Reconnaissance Office is looking at technology developed by the video game industry to help it improve how it gathers and analyzes intelligence data.
