Articles about Satellite – Page 14 of 14

Planetary Resources’ asteroid miners focus on Earth observation with $21 million in new funding

REDMOND, Wash. – Planetary Resources was founded as an asteroid mining company, but a fresh infusion of $21.1 million in investment… Read More

Satellites reveal just how bad the wildfires are in Alberta’s oil-sand country

Canadian firefighters are still struggling to get a handle on wide-ranging wildfires in Alberta’s oil-sand country, and satellite images are… Read More

Woohoo! SpaceX Falcon 9 booster makes nighttime landing at sea after launching JCSAT-14 satellite

SpaceX increased the degree of difficulty for tonight’s Falcon 9 rocket landing attempt at sea after launching a Japanese satellite… Read More

Wayward boat gets blamed after SpaceX aborts Falcon 9 rocket liftoff at last second

A wayward boat and a load of liquid oxygen that got too warm forced SpaceX to abort what might have been… Read More

SpaceX holds up on SES-9 satellite launch (and rocket landing) just before liftoff

For the second day in a row, SpaceX scrubbed the launch of the SES-9 telecommunications satellite as well as the… Read More

Space archaeologist Sarah Parcak uses $1M TED Prize for crowdsourced quest

Space archaeologist Sarah Parcak says she’ll use this year’s $1 million TED Prize to create a game that gives players… Read More

Spaceflight’s online price list makes it easier for the feds to buy a launch

Federal agencies can now buy a satellite launch as easily as they buy pencils, thanks to a new arrangement with… Read More

Bill Gates and other investors give $62M boost to Kymeta satellite antenna venture

Kymeta Corp., the Redmond-based satellite antenna venture backed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, says it has closed a $62 million… Read More

SpaceX’s Gwynne Shotwell signals go-slow approach for Seattle satellite plan

It’s been nine months since SpaceX’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, announced plans to put up a constellation of 4,000 satellites to provide… Read More

Hurricane Patricia looks scary from space: Satellites track storm as it menaces Mexico

Even the International Space Station’s commander is worried about Hurricane Patricia, the strongest storm ever tracked by the National Hurricane… Read More

See Earth every day from a million miles away, thanks to NASA’s EPIC website

Today NASA paid off on its promise to launch a website featuring daily images from the Deep Space Climate Observatory… Read More

Kymeta partners with Sharp to build satellite internet antennas with TV screen tech

The future of satellite internet may rely on tech already found in your TV screen. LCD manufacturers are providing solutions for tracking… Read More

Peter Beck and Rocket Lab's Electron launch vehicle

Reserve a launch for your satellite online? Rocket Lab can make it so

The CubeSat revolution has come to this: Now you can make an online reservation for a nanosatellite launch almost as easily as booking… Read More

Spaceflight Industries inks partnerships to improve its ‘cellphone network for space’

Spaceflight Industries announced a partnership today with Spire Global to expand its network of ground stations for its Spaceflight Networks “cellphone… Read More

NASA image shows massive plume of wildfire smoke headed toward Seattle

Vancouver, B.C. drew the eyes of a record 20 million viewers yesterday, as the U.S. Women’s Soccer team won the FIFA Women’s… Read More

Google buying satellite startup Skybox Imaging for $500M

Google says it will pay $500 million in cash for Skybox Imaging, using the company’s satellites and related technology to… Read More

Boeing set to deliver first all-electric satellites by 2015

Boeing is on track to launch the world’s first all-electric satellites by early 2015, as a part of an agreement… Read More