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Space station to watch for Earth disasters
Mar 08, 2013 (UPI)
A new crew for the International Space Station will install equipment to monitor Earth's atmosphere and forecast natural disasters, a Russian cosmonaut says. Th...
Twin CU-Boulder instruments reveal a third radiation belt can wrap around Earth
Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)
With the flip of a switch, a pair of instruments designed and built by the University of Colorado Boulder and flying onboard twin NASA space probes have forced ...
Mysterious electron stash found hidden among Van Allen belts
Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)
U.S. researchers, including a trio from Los Alamos National Laboratory, have witnessed the mysterious appearance of a relatively long-lived zone of high-energy ...
Satellite SAR capabilities being enhanced
Mar 06, 2013 (UPI)
An advanced satellite payload for Cospas-Sarsat, the global search-and-rescue system, is to be developed by Canada's COM DEV International Ltd. The contract for...
Third radiation belt discovered with UNH-led instrument suite
Mar 06, 2013 (SPX)
Although scientists involved in NASA's Van Allen Probes mission were confident they would eventually be able to rewrite the textbook on Earth's twin radiation b...
NASA's Van Allen Probes Discover a Surprise Circling Earth
Mar 04, 2013 (SPX)
After most NASA science spacecraft launches, researchers wait patiently for months as instruments on board are turned on one at a time, slowly ramped up to full...
Global tipping point not backed by science
Mar 04, 2013 (SPX)
A group of international ecological scientists led by the University of Adelaide have rejected a doomsday-like scenario of sudden, irreversible change to the Ea...
NASA's Aquarius Sees Salty Shifts
Feb 28, 2013 (SPX)
The colorful images chronicle the seasonal stirrings of our salty world: Pulses of freshwater gush from the Amazon River's mouth; an invisible seam divides the ...
Vietnam to launch third satellite into orbit
Feb 26, 2013 (XNA)
Vietnam will launch its third satellite into orbit in the second quarter of 2013, according to a document approved by the Vietnamese Government Office. Vietname...
Northrop Grumman Delivers First Communications Payload for USAF's Enhanced Polar System
Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)
Northrop Grumman has delivered the first of two protected communications payloads for the U.S. Air Force's Enhanced Polar System (EPS) that will provide continu...
NASA Selects Launch Services for ICESat-2 Mission
Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's Launch Services Program at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has selected United Launch Services, LLC of Englewood, Colo., to provide Delta II...
New approach alters malaria maps
Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)
Identifying areas of malarial infection risk depends more on daily temperature variation than on the average monthly temperatures, according to a team of resear...
Promising New Technique for Probing Earth's Deep Interior
Feb 26, 2013 (SPX)
researchers at Amherst College in Massachusetts and the University of Texas at Austin have described a new technique based in particle physics that might one da...
SMOS: the global success story continues
Feb 26, 2013 (ESA)
ESA's water mission is shedding new light on the meandering Gulf Stream, just one of the SMOS satellite's numerous achievements. Launched in 2009, ESA's Soil Mo...
Tiny CREPT Instrument to Study the Radiation Belts
Feb 19, 2013 (SPX)
A smaller version of an instrument now flying on NASA's Van Allen Probes has won a coveted spot aboard an upcoming NASA-sponsored Cubesat mission - the perfect ...
Poll: 26 percent in U.S. do not know Earth goes around sun
Feb 16, 2013 (UPI)
Twenty-six percent of U.S. respondents do not realize Earth revolves around the sun, a survey by the National Science Foundation indicated. The NSF conducts the...
Orbital-Built Landsat Satellite Launched
Feb 11, 2013 (SPX)
Orbital Sciences reports that the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite was successfully launched into orbit aboard an Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg...
US launches Earth observation satellite
Feb 11, 2013 (AFP)
The United States launched its latest Earth observation satellite Monday, enhancing an array of orbiting eyes that help with every from climate-change study to ...
NightPod Images Bring Earth to Light From Space Station
Feb 11, 2013 (SPX)
There is a reason the phrase "shooting in the dark" refers to things that are difficult to do - and night photography is no exception. To account for low-light ...
USGS Ready To Start Landsat 8 Science Program
Feb 11, 2013 (SPX)
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar joined NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science Anne Castle, United...
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