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Today at AWS Re:invent in Las Vegas, AWS announced a new service for satellite providers with the launch of AWS Ground Station, the first fully-managed ground station as a service. With this new service, AWS will provide ground antennas through their existing network of worldwide availability zones, and data processing services to simplify the entire […] Continue reading AWS launches a base station for satellites as a service
For eight years, Google Earth didn’t update its satellite image of a military installation in Nevada. So we bought one ourselves. Continue reading The One Place in the US Google Earth Stopped Mapping
The satellite laser communication revolution is just around the corner, but it has one especially obstinate foe—overcast weather. Continue reading Scientists Want to Punch Holes in Clouds With Ultra-Hot Lasers from Space
Every year at Supercon there is a critical mass of awesome people, and last year Sophi Kravitz was able to sneak away from the festivities for this interview with Katherine Scott. Kat was a judge for the 2017 Hackaday Prize. She specializes in computer vision, robotics, and manufacturing and was the image analytics team lead at Planet Labs when this interview was filmed.
You’re going to chuckle at the beginning of the video as Kat and Sophi recount the kind of highjinks going on at the con. In the hardware hacking area there were impromptu experiments in melting aluminum with …read more
Continue reading Katherine Scott: Earth’s Daily Photo Through 200 Cubesat Cameras
ICESat-2 will collect 250 times as many elevation measurements as its predecessor, ICESat. Continue reading NASA Will Measure Polar Ice Cover Down to the Centimeter with Lasers From Space
Some vessels use ocean rendezvous to exchange contraband, and even captive crew. But big data tools are finding new ways to track these activities from outer space. Continue reading Satellites Are Zeroing in on Poachers and Traffickers in the ‘Outlaw Ocean’
Why we need space-based litter police. Continue reading Watch These Scientists Remotely Operate a Space Garbage Robot
Derek Klingenberg’s “cow art” is a clever mix of math and cattle. Continue reading This Farmer Sent a Message to Tesla’s ‘Spaceman’ Using Cows
A new report by the nonprofit Oceana spotlights weird cases of fishing vessels switching off their public trackers. Continue reading Why Do Fishing Vessels ‘Go Dark’ In Certain Regions of the Ocean?
How to make atmospheric drag work for satellites, instead of against them. Continue reading Scientists Successfully Test an Air-Breathing Satellite Thruster