NASA Testing Small Satellite Data For Bigger View Of Changing Earth

Irene Klotz January 08, 2020
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...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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