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Space ground tracking program to reach key milestone

A program to develop satellites capable of tracking moving targets on the ground nears a key milestone, but might be delayed due to budget uncertainty.

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(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)federal employees teleworking overseas

State Department aims to build on open-source effort to track war crimes in Ukraine

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Nighttime satellite images may shed light on world disasters, help mitigate risks

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For US military leaders, Ukraine is a golden learning opportunity

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A clearer satellite image could mean better products and tighter security

HySpecIQ claims it is now positioned to become the world’s leading provider of space-based hyperspectral imagery. To find out more, I spoke with the…

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For this atmospheric exploration, NASA teams up with Germany’s space agency

A teaming arrangement between NASA and Germany’s Aerospace Center has started focusing on the Earth’s mesosphere and lower thermosphere, where scientists…

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This Monday, Oct. 26, 2020, satellite image from Planet Labs Inc. that has been annotated by experts at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at Middlebury Institute of International Studies shows construction at Iran's Natanz uranium-enrichment facility that experts believe may be a new, underground centrifuge assembly plant. Satellite photos show Iran has begun construction at its Natanz nuclear facility. That's after the head of the U.N.’s nuclear agency acknowledged Tehran is building an underground advanced centrifuge assembly plant after its last one exploded in a reported sabotage attack last summer. (Planet Labs Inc. via AP)

Intelligence community is calling on AI to ease work on analysts

The new program is working with four companies to build a program to look for changes on the earth’s surface.

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