NASA Testing Small Satellite Data For Bigger View Of Changing Earth

Fires burning in New South Wales and Queensland, Australia
Fires burning in New South Wales and Queensland, Australia, were captured Dec. 22 by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Instrument aboard the NASA/ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite.
Credit: NASA
With more than 60 companies worldwide planning to deploy Earth-observation and other remote-sensing satellite networks, NASA is stepping up efforts to evaluate how to use commercial data for ongoing observations of the changing planet. In January 2019, NASA kicked off a 10-month program to assess...

NASA Testing Small Satellite Data For Bigger View Of Changing Earth is available to both Aviation Week & Space Technology and AWIN subscribers.

Subscribe now to read this content, plus receive critical analysis into emerging trends, technological advancements, operational best practices and continuous updates to policy, requirements and budgets.

Already a subscriber to AW&ST or AWIN? Log in with your existing email and password.