Sputnik and the Dawn of the Space Age
On October 5, 1957 at 1:28am local time, the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I, world’s first artificial satellite.
Unique images from Google’s Earth View
Amazing images of our planet from Google’s Earth View, a collection of 1,500 of the most beautiful satellite view photographs.
Eye of an Algal Storm
New images of an impressive massive algal bloom in the Baltic Sea, captured by the Sentinel-2A satellite that has been in orbit for only some weeks. Can
Magnificent Atlas V launch on Sep 2
Take a look at the video and images of the impressive pre-dawn launch of Atlas V carrying U.S. Navy advanced tactical communications satellite into orbit…
Earth-wide internet by Samsung
Samsung, like SpaceX / Google, proposed an ‘Earth-wide internet,’ covered by a cloud of 4,600 microsatellites.
Unique view of Moon Transiting the Earth
This animation features actual satellite images of the far side of the moon transiting the Earth – one million miles away, illuminated by the sun.
Typhoon Dolphin by Satellite
A stunning eye overpass of Typhoon Dolphin in the West Pacific by NASA’s CloudSat satellite, on May 16.
4 Satellites will track the secrets of Magnetic Reconnection
NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission, will study how a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection allows energy and particles from the sun to funnel inside the magnetosphere, the
How much Saharan Dust feeds Amazon’s plants
For the first time, a NASA satellite has quantified in three dimensions the amounts of dust that makes a trans-Atlantic journey… How much Saharan dust feeds Amazon’s
DARPA’s ALASA space launch system from airplane
DARPA’s ALASA space launch system from airplane, can launch 100-lb payloads into low Earth orbit. Watch the video…