Climate & Environmental Monitoring

The L3Harris next-generation imager for NOAA’s GeoXO satellite system will capture real-time detail of severe storms across the Western Hemisphere. Image is courtesy of L3Harris L3Harris Technologies has completed the system Critical Design Review (CDR) of the next generation imager ...

On Tuesday Rocket Lab will be conducting their Sub-orbital launch under Rocket Lab’s Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) program. This is a government top secret mission with details TBD. The launch will take place from Rocket Lab Launch Complex ...

SpaceX launched NASA’s Sentinel-6B mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, Sunday, November 16. Photo captured by Satnews. Sentinel-6B is the second of twin satellites in the Copernicus Sentinel-6/Jason-CS mission. The first, ...

Satnews received an announcement just hours ago that after the challenges of getting ViaSat-3 F2 mission aloft it looks like today's the day. The last internal announcement was on November 6, so fingers crossed that patience during the delays has ...

22,000+ students across 85 schools in remote Ghana now have reliable internet. Previously plagued with limited infrastructure and connectivity options, 85 schools in remote Ghana now have access to Starlink. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is targeting the launch of 29 Starlink ...

INNOSPACE (KS:462350), a South Korean satellite launch service company targets 3:00 p.m. on November 22 (Brazil time) for the launch of its first commercial launch vehicle ‘HANBIT-Nano’ as part of the SPACEWARD mission. The target launch date was determined following an ...

Everything continues to progress towards the ULA Atlas V launch carrying the ViaSat-3 Flight 2 (F2) mission for Viasat, a global technologies company. The mission is planned to lift off on Wednesday, November 5, from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape ...

Solid Rocket Booster Mate: Atlas V ViaSat-3 F2The solid rocket boosters (SRBs) are mounted onto the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket that will launch the ViaSat-3 F2 ultra-high-capacity broadband satellite. Photo credit: United Launch Alliance Everything continues to ...

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is now targeting the launch of 28 Starlink smallsats to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Friday, October 31, from 12:44 PM - 4:44 PM PDT ...

On Monday, October 27, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched of 28 Starlink Group 11-21 smallsats to low-Earth orbit to from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The satellites will join the Starlink constellation. Space ...

The new Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission has delivered its first images, highlighting concentrations of atmospheric nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide and ozone. Copernicus Sentinel-4 imagery,courtesy of the Copernicus program of the European Union This image, based on the Sentinel-4's first measurements that ...

Although ESA’s small Arctic Weather Satellite was built as a demonstrator for future constellation called EPS-Sterna, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts is now incorporating its data into its operational weather forecast system—highlighting the fact that small satellites delivered ...

The IASI-NG instrument (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer-New Generation) flying on the Metop-SGA1 weather satellite has sent back its first data. MetOp-SG's IASI-NG returns first data Lifted into space from the Guiana Space Centre by an Ariane 6 launcher on Tuesday, ...

Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) has been awarded a €3 million contract renewal by EUMETSAT—this renewal is part of a two-year operational contract starting August 14, 2025. Through the contract, the Company will continue to provide radio occultation (RO) data ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 24 of Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband satellites to orbit from Florida on Aug. 11, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX) SpaceX is targeting Monday, October 13 for a Falcon 9 launch of the KF-03 mission to ...

Project Kuiper deployed 24 satellites aboard its KF-01 mission on a Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX Photo by Image: SpaceX SpaceX is targeting Thursday, October 9 for a Falcon 9 launch of the KF-03 mission to orbit from Space Launch ...

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is targeting the launch of 28 Starlink smallsats to low-Earth orbit that will join the Starlink constellation from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Weather forecast calls for a temperature ...

“We are what we call Nunataligaarjuk, close to the little islands out in the sea ice. Starlink has changed our lives out on the land. I have seen and heard of people being stuck out on the land, and they ...

SpaceX’s next flight of its giant Starship (test flight 11) is likely to launch on October 13th. The date has been confirmed by SpaceX, and the US Coast Guard’s local Notice to Mariners talks of the flight taking place between ...

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched 28 Starlink smallsats to low-Earth orbit to join the Starlink constellation from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Photos captured by Satnews. The forecast indicated a temperature of 69°F, ...