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NASA is watching California’s groundwater crisis from space
Over-pumping groundwater is causing California's San Joaquin Valley to sink, but monitoring these basins from space could help improve management.
This satellite has high hopes—the transformation of Finland’s space industry
About the size of a milk carton, the Foresail-1 satellite will seek new details about in Earth's radiation field.
How harpoons, magnets, and ion blasts could help us clean up space junk
Who’s going to get rid of all the garbage we’ve left in space?
Ukraine was about to revive its space program. Then Russia invaded.
Dnipro, Ukraine's “Rocket City,” was critical in the Soviet Union’s space race—but Russia’s invasion has made the future of the country's space program uncertain.
A solar storm blasted 40 SpaceX satellites out of orbit
Solar storms like the one that destroyed the satellites will only increase in the coming years.
DARPA wants Space-BACN so satellite communication sizzles
The program is pronounced "space bacon" and is focused on building resiliency in case satellites ever get fried.
The most high-flying aerospace innovations of 2021
A major airline turns to artificial intelligence for help, a drone that can refuel fighter jets, and more airborne innovations are the Best of What’s New.
NASA’s Landsat 9 satellite sends back its first images of a changing world
The newest Landsat satellite will help track the effects of the climate crisis.
With Landsat 9, NASA can now photograph the entire Earth every 8 days
Along with its already orbiting companion, Landsat 8, the just-launched satellite will monitor how climate change continues to alter the Earth's surface.
This space-based weapon remains in the dark—for now
The US was reportedly going to reveal the existence of a weapon in orbit. Here's why that's a bad idea.
