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Watch China launch pair of Earth-mapping satellites on its 50th launch of 2023 (video)

By Andrew Jones published

A Long March 6A rocket lifted off carrying two Tianhui-5 Earth-mapping satellites on Nov. 1, marking China's 50th launch of the year.

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A Long March 4C rocket carrying the Tianhui 6 A and B satellites lifts off from Taiyuan spaceport on March 9 (UTC), 2023.

China launches pair of mysterious Earth-mapping satellites (video)

By Andrew Jones published

China launched a pair of Tianhui cartography satellites on March 9 to boost the country's Earth observation and mapping capabilities.

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A Dove cubesat operated by the San Francisco company Planet spotted methane gas bubbling to the Baltic Sea surface from a breached pipeline on Sept. 26, 2022.

Satellite spies leak from breached Russian Nord Stream gas pipeline (photo)

By Mike Wall published

A tiny cubesat operated by the San Francisco company Planet spotted methane gas bubbling up from a breached pipeline in the Baltic Sea.

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A Planet satellite captured views of Mayfield, Kentucky, where a candle factory owned by Mayfield Consumer Products, LLC was badly hit by a tornado on Dec. 10, 2021.

Satellites see devastating tornado damage in US from space (photos)

By Samantha Mathewson published

Satellites operated by Maxar Technologies and Planet have captured striking views of the damage inflicted by last week's tornados.

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The first image collected by Landsat 9, on Oct. 31, 2021, shows remote coastal islands and inlets of the Kimberly region of Western Australia. In the top middle section of the image, the Mitchell River carves through sandstone, while to the left Bigge Island and the Coronation Islands stand out in the Indian Ocean.

Powerful Landsat 9 satellite beams home 1st photos of Earth

By Mike Wall published

Landsat 9's first photos show the Florida Panhandle, Detroit and its surrounding area, Navajo Country in northern Arizona, the high Himalayas and the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

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This photo, captured by one of Planet's Dove Earth-imaging cubesats on March 25, 2021, shows the container ship Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal (top left) and the queue of ships waiting to enter the canal from the Red Sea.

Earth-observing satellite startup Planet is going public

By Mike Wall published

Planet, which operates the world's largest fleet of Earth-observing satellites, announced Wednesday (July 7) that it will merge with a special purpose acquisition company.

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A Chinese Long March 2C rocket launches the Haiyang 1D ocean monitoring satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China, on June 11, 2020.

China launches Haiyang 1D satellite to monitor Earth's oceans

By Elizabeth Howell published

An ocean observation satellite soared into space from China's Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the country's north Shanxi Province on Thursday (June 11).

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The NOAA/NASA Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite captured this view of Earth from nearly 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) away in July 2015.

Earth science is more important than ever (op-ed)

By Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen published

Our satellites in space gathering data and images of our home planet unite us in ways that are more important now than ever.

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This satellite image, made available by Maxar Technologies, shows military and security vehicles parked in the Shenzhen Bay Sports Center in Shenzhen, China on August 12, 2019 (issued August 14, 2019). According to media reports, military and security vehicles from the People's Armed Police have gathered in Shenzhen, a city just outside of Hong Kong.

Satellite Photo Shows China's Military Buildup in Response to Hong Kong Protests

By Chelsea Gohd published

After over 10 weeks of protests in Hong Kong, a satellite has captured an image of Chinese military vehicles gathering in Shenzhen.

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A Vega rocket lifts off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana with the Sentinel-2B satellite on March 6, 2017. The launch vehicle is scheduled for another nighttime launch on July 10, 2019, when it will loft the FalconEye1 satellite into orbit.

Vega Rocket Launching Earth-Observing UAE Satellite Tonight: Watch Live!

By Hanneke Weitering published

A European Vega rocket will launch a new Earth observation satellite for the United Arab Emirates today (July 10), and you can watch the liftoff live online!

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