In an unexpected discovery, two weather satellites designed to monitor Earth’s atmosphere have ended up capturing valuable ...

Satellite data allows meteorologists to keep track of the location, structure and intensity of severe weather, helping to ...

Japan's Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 satellites, designed to study weather here on Earth, have also been quietly collecting ...

Scientists will rely on data from a Japanese satellite sensor to monitor sea ice going forward, because the U.S. Department of Defense will no longer share similar data from American satellites.

The satellites are equipped with unique tools to peer beneath cloud cover and capture microwave images that forecasters can't get anywhere else. Their infrared sensors capture images over an area ...

The satellites are not being decommissioned, but their data will no longer be received, processed or stored. Satellites can’t last forever and are eventually retired, but it is not clear that is ...

Radar launch monitor systems are like watching the entire movie unfold on screen. Camera systems are like studying the most important scene in crazy-high definition, then letting expert writers ...

US weather satellites are run by NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), which would receive $336 million in fiscal year 2026, down 12% from 2024.

Two SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets lifted off with Starlink satellites on June 28, 2025. The first launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida and the second from Vandenberg Space Force Station in California.

According to footage captured by s2a systems and uploaded to X, two Chinese satellites, Shijian-21 and Shijian-25, flew into extremely close proximity on both June 13 and June 14.