Earth observation
New Earth Surveillance Tech Is About to Change Everything, Including Us
New high-resolution satellites, AIs, and data tools are going to let us study Earth, and ourselves, in greater detail than ever before. That's going to come with "unthinkable" problems.
NASA Will Measure Polar Ice Cover Down to the Centimeter with Lasers From Space
ICESat-2 will collect 250 times as many elevation measurements as its predecessor, ICESat.
Europe Is Launching Sentinel-3A, the Latest in Its All-Seeing Satellite Network
The Earth observation satellite will focus its gaze on the oceans.
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Europe Is Building a ‘Space Data Highway’ With Lasers
It'll transmit data back to Earth about 90 times faster than your typical earthly internet connection.
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