Browsing: Remote Sensing

China sent its second Yaogan-42 reconnaissance satellite into orbit over the weekend, following the launch of the first satellite into a similar orbit a few weeks earlier.

The Commerce Department is looking into whether it needs to fix a possible gap in how companies follow the rules for cleaning up space junk with their commercial satellite systems.

Prediction made by UCLA geographers Thomas Gillespie, John Agnew, and a whole class of undergrads regarding where Osama Bin Laden might be hiding turned out to be surprisingly accurate, surprising scientists and authorities alike. They created a probabilistic model which concluded that there is a 88.9% chance that he is hiding in a city less […]