Collaborate Disseminate
The Famine Early Warning Systems Network, DigitalGlobe, and thousands of online volunteers partner up to map out displacement in crisis-stricken regions. Continue reading We’re Fighting Famine in South Sudan With Images From Outer Space
Scientists found it by taking a satellite “x-ray” of the globe. Continue reading Earth’s Core Is Squirting a ‘Jet Stream’ of Liquid Metal Under the Surface
The CYGNSS constellation will be able to make 32 wind measurements per second. Continue reading Watch NASA Launch New Hurricane-Chasing Satellites From a Plane-Riding Rocket
As of Friday morning, 185,000 people already applied to be Asgardians. Continue reading Earth Got You Down? Apply for Citizenship to Asgardia, a Future Space Country
This is what happens when something a few millimetres in size smashes into a satellite at a velocity over 40,000 km/h. Continue reading A Tiny Space Particle Smooshed into a European Satellite
We live in a connected world, but that world ends not far beyond the outermost cell phone tower. [John Grant] wants to be connected everywhere, even in regions where no mobile network is available, so he is building a solar powered, handheld satellite messenger: The MyComm – his entry for the Hackaday Prize.
The MyComm is a handheld touch-screen device, much like a smartphone, that connects to the Iridium satellite network to send and receive text messages. At the heart of his build, [John] uses a RockBLOCK Mk2 Iridium SatComm Module hooked up to a Teensy 3.1. The firmware is …read more
Continue reading Hackaday Prize Entry: MyComm Handheld Satellite Messenger
The NROL-37 ‘Mentor’ eavesdropping satellite has been located near Malaysia. Continue reading Skygazers Have Already Found the US Government’s New Spy Satellite
It’s never been easier to monitor the health of wild tiger habitats online. Continue reading Satellite Imagery Reveals that Tiger Populations Could Double by 2022