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Boeing [NYSE: BA] and NASA has announced the second of three, next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) has shipped from Boeing's satellite manufacturing facility in El Segundo, California, to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, where it will undergo final preparations for launch this spring.
Read MoreCrops in Argentina were taking a beating in February 2009 — according to reports from the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), a severe drought in southern South America had severely affected corn, cotton, and soybean crops in the country.
Read MoreThe launch of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory, or OCO, aboard a Taurus XL rocket is scheduled for February 24th.
Read MoreThe Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully acquired the First Light by the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite "IBUKI" (GOSAT) during the course of its initial functional check.
Read MoreA NASA spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide is in final preparations for a February 23 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and is the first of its kind.
Read MoreThe launch of the NOAA-N Prime polar-orbiting weather satellite for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket is scheduled for Wednesday, February 4th.
Read MoreJapan has launched a satellite whose focus will be to observe the concentration distribution of greenhouse gases from space. The launch of the Ibuki satellite (also known by GOSAT - Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite) took place on January 23rd at 03:54 UTC from the LP1 launch platform of the Yoshinubo launch complex on Tanegashima.
Read MoreAs is the case for most sub-Saharan African countries, Niger faces problems meeting its water needs. As part of ESA’s TIGER initiative, satellite data are being used to identify surface and underground water resources in the drought-prone country.
Read MoreIt's important to understand how aerosols affect climate — do they emit or experience interference from electromagnetic impulses encountered in space?
Read MoreSatellite imaging provider DMC International Imaging (DMCii) will provide free DMC constellation satellite imagery for scientists to support global environmental monitoring projects.
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