Small geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) satellites have been an increasingly discussed design trend in the industry, boasting the same regionalized scope as traditional GEO models at a price point ...
NASA’s GOES satellites have provided 50 years of continuous geostationary monitoring, delivering real-time weather, environmental hazard, and space weather data to support forecasts, emergency ...
Images from geostationary satellites alone aren’t enough to help planes avoid contrail-prone regions, MIT researchers report.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Fifty years ago, on Oct. 24, 1975, meteorology took a monumental leap forward when GOES-1 (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite), the world’s first geostationary ...
Radio astronomy has a pollution problem. Satellites thousands of kilometers overhead, designed to broadcast communications or relay data, are increasingly contaminating the frequencies astronomers use ...
DARMSTADT, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Europe has taken a major step forward in strengthening its resilience to extreme weather events with the successful launch of the Meteosat Third Generation Sounder ...
For decades, Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) operators were in the communications catbird’s seat 22,000 miles above the Earth, but the arrival of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) networks, like Elon Musk’s ...
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