At a recent GIJN webinar, three experts explained how reporters can get regular, free access to high-quality satellite images ...

In the race to meet the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Earth observation (EO) satellite data is ...

POES satellites orbit the earth 14 times each day at an altitude of approximately 520 miles (870 km). As each orbit is made the satellite can view a 1,600 mile (2,700 km) wide area of the earth.

Thus, each satellite functions as a “transparent network relay node ... of satellites at different altitudes, including low-Earth orbiting satellites similar to SpaceX’s Starlink system.

When NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) new Earth satellite NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) launches in coming months, it will capture images of Earth's surface so ...