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[SatNews] NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded a sole source contract for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1) spacecraft to Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colorado.
Read More[SatNews] Global Science & Technology, Inc., of Greenbelt, Maryland., has been awarded a contract to help manage NOAA’s satellite Climate Data Records (CDR) program, which is based at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina.
Read More[SatNews] On September 20-24, 2010, meteorologists, scientists, and researchers will meet in Cordoba, Spain, for the 2010 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference, hosted and co-organised by the Agencia Estatal de Meteorologia (AEMET), the Spanish State Meteorological Agency.
Read More[SatNews] Russia will fully rebuild its network of weather forecasting and monitoring satellites by 2030 under a state program for the development of meteorology, the government said in a statement on Tuesday.
Read More[SatNews] Powerful Hurricane Earl, growing Tropical Storm Fiona and fading Danielle were all captured in this visible image from the GOES-13 satellite.
Read More[SatNews] On July 24, 2010, the administrator of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Jane Lubchenco, provided a briefing about the anticipated impact of Tropical Storm Bonnie on the Deepwater Horizon oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico.
Read More[SatNews] EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, held its 70th Council meeting in Rome, Italy, on June 21-22, 2010. At the Council, the texts of the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Program Resolution and Program Proposal were approved by all Member States, with Germany and Portugal voting yes ad referendum.
Read More[SatNews] Nowhere is the coming of spring so dramatic as in the Arctic — spring begins when the Sun rises over the North Pole on March 18th for the first time in nearly six months.
Read MoreThe GOA needed to develop a strategy to sustain critical climate and space weather measurements.
Read More[SatNews] NASA satellite imagery confirmed that Tropical cyclone 03A has intensified quickly in the last 24 hours, and as a result, the storm has been renamed Tropical Storm Phet.
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