California plans to launch a satellite to monitor pollution in the state and contribute to climate science, Governor Jerry Brown announced today. The state is partnering with satellite imagery purveyor Planet to create a custom craft to “pinpoint – and stop – destructive emissions with unprecedented precision, on a scale that’s never been done before.”
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Smartphones have disrupted transportation, payments and communication. But the underlying technology has tangentially changed a completely different sector: satellites.
View More Satellite startups turn to reinventing broadband, mapping and other industriesScientists found a new Earth-sized planet nearby…and it might be habitable
Forget Mars, scientists have discovered a new Earth-sized, possibly habitable, planet just eleven light years away. Known as Ross 128b, the newly discovered planet orbits a life friendly red dwarf star that is an estimated seven billion years old…
View More Scientists found a new Earth-sized planet nearby…and it might be habitableScientists found a new Earth-sized planet nearby…and it might be habitable
Forget Mars, scientists have discovered a new Earth-sized, possibly habitable, planet just eleven light years away. Known as Ross 128b, the newly discovered planet orbits a life friendly red dwarf star that is an estimated seven billion years old…
View More Scientists found a new Earth-sized planet nearby…and it might be habitable