The MWIs will provide cloud and precipitation products and all-weather surface imagery to support numerical weather predictions at regional and global scales. Omnisys, AAC Clyde Space’s new subsidiary, secured an EUR 0.47 M (approx. SEK 4.9 M) order to deliver strategic spare parts to Airbus Defence and Space for Europe’s next generation of meteorological satellites, […]
Space Weather
NASA Selects The Investigation Teams That Will Join The Geospace Dynamics Mission
NASA has selected three investigation teams to join the agency’s Geospace Dynamics Constellation (GDC) mission science team in studying Earth’s upper atmosphere, as well as five additional investigations that will be under consideration for inclusion in the mission. GDC is a coordinated group of satellites that will provide the first direct global measurements of the […]
MetOp-SG-B’s Scatterometer Weather Satellite Weathers Extensive Tests
It will measure wind speed and direction over the ocean surface, to help monitor scale phenomena such as ocean winds and continental ice sheets, and check land surface soil moisture — a key driver of water and heat fluxes between the ground and the atmosphere. The flight model of the Scatterometer Antenna Subsystem (SAS) of […]
Slingshot Aerospace Receives Million$$ Contract From USSF’s Space Systems Command
Slingshot Aerospace, Inc. has been awarded a $25.2 million, 39-month contract from the U.S. Space Force’s (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) with strategic support from SpaceWERX. The contract will facilitate delivery of two key Slingshot Aerospace products: the company’s Digital Space Twin, and the deployment of the Slingshot Laboratory training product for USSF. Funding was […]
NASA + NOAA’s GOES-T To Get Going On March 1
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket is in final preparations to launch the GOES-T mission for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA. The launch, managed by NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) based at Kennedy Space Center, is on track for March 1 from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space […]