EU to favor European satellite services to prevent Musk's Starlink expansion
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8 headlinesSatellite data reveal hidden labor trafficking in Brazil
A Stanford team used geospatial data and detection algorithms to achieve a tenfold increase in rescues from modern slavery in the Brazilian Amazon. Now, they are planning to expand their approach.
Satellite data reveal Southern Ocean vertical currents diving 3,000 feet below surface
Ocean currents are not just horizontal motions that flow from side to side. There are also vertical currents that act like deep-sea elevators, pushing heat and carbon down into the deep, while bringing up vital nutrients and dissolved gases to the surface.
June 2026 Satellite Puzzler
Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.
Space telescopes are now overwhelmed by satellite trails
Unfortunately, there's more bad news to report on the clear skies front. A new paper, available on the arXiv preprint server from researchers at NASA's Ames Research Center, reports that 73. 3% of images the agency's new SPHEREx space telescope collected between May and September of last year we...
Every GPS satellite is a numbers station
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FCC relaxes Amazon's satellite internet deadline
The FCC has given Amazon an extension to a key milestone for its Leo satellite internet deployment.
FCC lifts looming deadline for Amazon Leo satellite broadband constellation
The waiver "serves the public interest by promoting a second large satellite broadband constellation.