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With a Name Like GOES-P, This Satellite Has to be Good
The final spacecraft in this series of NASA and NOAA's "GOES" geostationary environmental weather satellites is ready for launch. GOES…
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ESA’s Tough Choice: Dark Matter, Sun Close Flyby, Exoplanets (Pick Two)
Key questions relevant to fundamental physics and cosmology, namely the nature of the mysterious dark energy and dark matter (Euclid);…
WISE Spies Its First Comet
[/caption] The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer or WISE is living up to expectations, as it now has discovered its first…
The Solar Dynamics Observatory Soars to Study the Sun
The Solar Dynamics Observatory launched successfully – and beautifully – Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 41 to begin…
Satellite Captures Solar Eclipse from Space
[/caption] The recently launched Proba-2 satellite was able to observe the annular solar eclipse on January 15, 2010, with stunning…
Satellites Save the Day (and Lives)
[/caption] We all know how satellites make our lives better and easier (television, communications, GPS, weather forecasting, etc) but satellites…
UK’s Big Snowfall, As Seen From Space
[/caption] This satellite image taken by NASA's Terra satellite shows the entire island of Great Britain blanketed by heavy snowfall,…
Surf’s Up! Astronomers Ride Stellar Waves
[/caption] This week, first results from the Kepler mission are coming out in waves from the meeting of the American…
WISE Launches to Begin All-Sky Survey (Video)
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, successfully lifted off this morning on its way to map the entire sky…
Two ESA Satellites Launch Successfully
UPDATE: Information about both SMOS and the Proba-2 satelite are on ESA Television. The program loop is embedded at the…