News tagged with weather satellites
Satellites Could Help Keep Hungry Populations Fed as Climate Changes
Sep 17, 2009 |
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In the early 1980s, scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., developed the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), an innovative combination of two satellite measurements that ...
GOES-O satellite arrives at KSC for final pre-launch testing
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Mar 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), called GOES-O, arrived this morning by a C17 military ...
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Sophisticated weather satellite rockets into orbit
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-O, soared into space today after a successful launch from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station ...
India launches seven satellites: space agency
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 23, 2009 |
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India successfully launched seven satellites including six from foreign countries on Wednesday, officials said, underlining the country's ambitions in the space business.
U.S. military satellites to be reviewed
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 22, 2007 |
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A top U.S. Air Force official has ordered a review of all current military satellites to determine if they are vulnerable to attack.
NASA, NOAA set to launch NOAA-N Prime satellite
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 22, 2009 |
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NASA is preparing to launch NOAA'S latest polar-orbiting operational environmental satellite, called NOAA-N Prime, providing an essential resource for NOAA's weather forecasts and improving the U.S. search ...
NSF awards grant to track 'space weather' in Earth's near-space environment
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 21, 2008 |
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Global and real-time "space weather" observations of near-Earth space--and the solar storms that can knock out electric power grids--is about to happen for the first time, thanks to funding from the National ...
New Environmental Satellite Successfully Launched
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new environmental satellite that will improve weather forecasting and monitor environmental events around the world soared into space this morning after a picture-perfect launch from Vandenberg ...
Capturing tomorrow's satellite data with today's instruments
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A satellite that won't be launched into orbit until 2015 is already paying dividends for an advanced weather research project.
Beating the radar: Getting a jump on storm prediction
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 16, 2009 |
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Satellite observation of cloud temperatures may be able to accurately predict severe thunderstorms up to 45 minutes earlier than relying on traditional radar alone, say researchers at UW-Madison's Space Science ...
First IR Image from Newest Weather Satellite Captures Hurricane Bill
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Remote-sensing scientists call a satellite image that captures an entire hemisphere of the Earth in one view a "full-disk" image. The delivery of the first full-disk image from a newly launched ...
To widen path to outer space, UF engineers build small satellite
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 13, 2008 |
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It's not much bigger than a softball and weighs just 2 pounds. But the "pico satellite" being designed and built in a University of Florida aerospace engineering laboratory may hold a key to a future of easy access to outer ...
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