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.

Astronomers don’t want to be fooled by passing satellites, as happened in 2017 when researchers spotted what they thought was a γ-ray burst — high-energy flashes of light — from a distant ...

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 ...

Of the satellites in Earth orbit, around 42% are inactive, according to Seradata. The number of active satellites increased by 68% from 2020 to 2021 and by more than 200% from 2016 to 2021.

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.

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 ...