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by Jeff Foust — March 20, 2021 An illustration of NOAA-17, a satellite decommissioned in 2013 after nearly 11 years of operations. The spacecraft broke up in orbit March 10. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — A polar-orbiting weather satellite decommissioned nearly eight years ago has broken up, adding to the growing…

Drought conditions affecting two-thirds of the U.S. are expected to "continue and expand," according to the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s spring outlook report released Thursday. "We are predicting prolonged and widespread drought," National Weather Service Deputy Director Mary Erickson said to the Associated Press. "It's definitely something we're…

Home News Science & Astronomy The NOAA-20 satellite captured this stunning image of Ireland on March 16, 2021, just ahead of St. Patrick's Day. (Image credit: NOAA)Ireland is already showing off verdant green finery in an image captured from space one day before the island's iconic holiday, St. Patrick's Day.…

BOSTON (AP) — Federal fishing regulators are considering letting commercial fishermen catch more of a species of shark in the coming year. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it’s considering allowing more harvest of spiny dogfish in the 2021-22 fishing year. Fishermen catch dogfish off the East Coast. The…

by Jeff Foust — February 27, 2021 Astra, which nearly reached orbit on its second orbital launch attempt in December, won a NASA contract Feb. 26 for three launches of an Earth science cubesat constellation. Credit: Astra/John Kraus WASHINGTON — Astra has won a NASA contract to launch a small…

by Debra Werner — February 19, 2021 GeoOptics calls its satellites CICERO, which stands for Community Initiative for Cellular Earth Remote Observation. Credit: GeoOptics Correction: This article was corrected on Feb. 19 at 5:26 pm Eastern time to note that the latest delivery order calls for GeoOptics alone to supply…

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Goran Pandev admits he hasn’t quite decided whether he’s going to retire this summer after bagging a brace in Genoa’s 2-1 win over Napoli. The veteran is 37 years old and has said he’ll retire after he plays with Macedonia in the postponed Euro 2020 tournament. Will the brace against…

by Debra Werner — February 5, 2021 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plans to launch the Space Weather Follow On satellite to Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 1 in 2025 on the NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe. Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 is designed to carry on work performed by…

IMAGE: Composite image showing just a small portion of the remarkable diversity of larval and juvenile fishes and invertebrates found living in surface slick nurseries along West Hawaii Island. view more  Credit: Credit: Larval photos: Jonathan Whitney (NOAA Fisheries), Slick photo: Joey Lecky (NOAA Fisheries). To survive the open ocean, tiny…