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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…

Watch as a Mattia Destro brace away at Crotone inspired Genoa’s third win in the last four Serie A games. Read the full match report HERE.  Crotone remain at the bottom of the table, as Genoa left with all the spoils, inspired by Destro and Lennart Czyborra in an entertaining…

It’s official: 2020 ranks as the second-hottest year on record for the planet, knocking 2019 down to third hottest, according to an analysis by NOAA scientists. The average land and ocean surface temperature across the globe in 2020 was 1.76 degrees F (0.98 of a degree C) above average —…

A record thirty named storms have formed during the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. This week, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released satellite imagery showing the storms, ahead of the season’s end on November 30. Arthur, the first named storm of 2020, formed in May, before the season had officially…

Meanwhile NOAA put the year just behind 2016 in the charts, but it was remarkably hot by either agency’s measure Fires in Trans-Baikal forest Siberia. Credit: L. Yagovy Getty Images The results are finally in: 2020 was one of the hottest years in recorded history, according to data released today…