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SWIRLL Reinforces UAH’s Increasing Severe Weather and Lightning Research Prominence

The University of Alabama in Huntsville’s new, Severe Weather Institute – Radar and Lightning Laboratories (SWIRLL) is boosting the interest of prospective graduate atmospheric science students and reinforcing the university’s increasing severe weather and lightning research prominence.

6 Oct 2014

NASA Launches Ocean Winds Sensor to the International Space Station

The launch of a NASA ocean winds sensor to the International Space Station (ISS) this month inaugurates a new era of Earth observation that will leverage the space station's unique vantage point in space. Before the end of the decade, six NASA Earth science instruments will be mounted to the station to help scientists study our changing planet.

From National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 9 Sep 2014

Cryogenic Refrigerators Chill Sensors on NASA's OCO-2 Earth Remote Sensing Satellite

A cool thing about space: cryogenic refrigerators from Northrop Grumman Corporation that chill satellite sensors to hundreds of degrees below zero Fahrenheit (degrees F) for maximum sensitivity.

21 Aug 2014

NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive Satellite to be Launched in Winter

About 60 percent of California is experiencing "exceptional drought," the U.S. Drought Monitor's most dire classification. The agency issued the same warning to Texas and the southeastern United States in 2012.

20 Aug 2014

NASA's ISS-RapidScat to Watch Winds Near Ocean's Surface with a Scatterometer

The ocean covers 71 percent of Earth's surface and affects weather over the entire globe. Hurricanes and storms that begin far out over the ocean affect people on land and interfere with shipping at sea. And the ocean stores carbon and heat, which are transported from the ocean to the air and back, allowing for photosynthesis and affecting Earth's climate. To understand all these processes, scientists need information about winds near the ocean's surface.

14 Aug 2014

Next-Generation WorldView-3 Remote Sensing Satellite One Step Closer to Being Launched

The Ball Aerospace, DigitalGlobe, Exelis and Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services team have successfully moved one step closer to launching the next-generation WorldView-3 commercial remote sensing satellite.

From Maxar Technologies 7 Aug 2014

NASA Launches Earth Remote Sensing Satellite to Study Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket carrying the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) payload for NASA lifted off from Space Launch Complex-2 at 2:56 a.m. PDT today. This launch marks the 51st Delta II mission for NASA and Delta II's return to flight as the first of two planned Delta II launches this year, and also the seventh ULA launch of 2014 and the 84th since the company was formed.

4 Jul 2014

SPUTNIX Launches First Russian Private Earth Remote Sensing Satellite

ISC Kosmotras successfully launched a cluster of small spacecraft by the RS-20 rocket (Dnepr) on 20 June 2014. The first Russian private Earth remote sensing satellite of the SPUTNIX Company, named TabletSat-Aurora, was also set into its target orbit.

23 Jun 2014

Five Remote Sensing and Earth Observation Projects Receive CASIS Grant Awards

The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) has announced grant awards for five projects focused on remote sensing and Earth observation.

19 Jun 2014

Teledyne and German Aerospace Center Formalize Partnership to Use the ISS for Earth Observation

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated announced today that its subsidiary, Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc. (TBE), in Huntsville, Ala., and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) formalized their commercial space imaging partnership to use the International Space Station (ISS) for Earth observation with the signing of an Implementation Agreement at the ILA Berlin Air Show.

From Teledyne Technologies Incorporated 22 May 2014

Earth Science and Sensing News

SWIRLL Reinforces UAH’s Increasing Severe Weather and Lightning Research Prominence

NASA Launches Ocean Winds Sensor to the International Space Station

Cryogenic Refrigerators Chill Sensors on NASA's OCO-2 Earth Remote Sensing Satellite

NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive Satellite to be Launched in Winter

NASA's ISS-RapidScat to Watch Winds Near Ocean's Surface with a Scatterometer

Next-Generation WorldView-3 Remote Sensing Satellite One Step Closer to Being Launched

NASA Launches Earth Remote Sensing Satellite to Study Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

SPUTNIX Launches First Russian Private Earth Remote Sensing Satellite

Five Remote Sensing and Earth Observation Projects Receive CASIS Grant Awards

Teledyne and German Aerospace Center Formalize Partnership to Use the ISS for Earth Observation

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